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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$140K – $225K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As the Senior Software Engineer, Tooling and Development Infrastructure, you will play a critical role in shaping the developer productivity tools and automated testing strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with design, development, and quality teams to plan, design, and implement robust automated tools and services that ensure the quality and reliability of our AI software stack. You will be highly hands-on in your work and collaborate closely with stakeholders. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the development of cutting-edge automation frameworks, foster a culture of quality, and contribute to the long-term success of the organization. What You Might Do Develop and implement automation frameworks and testing strategies that cover the entire software stack, from backend systems to user-facing features. Identify, evaluate, and integrate new tools that streamline development. This includes everything from code quality tools and to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions. Lead continuous improvement efforts for our build, release, and test systems, ensuring a robust

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$140K – $225K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role The Device Experience team is building intelligent, desktop-native applications that redefine how people engage with their PCs. These aren’t traditional applications—they’re responsive, local-first experiences that seamlessly surface AI-powered insights, actions, and context, right when and where users need them. You’ll help craft the interface between human intent and machine intelligence—engineering native software that’s deeply integrated with Windows and optimized for performance. This work is core to how HP IQ brings the future of work to life: fluid, adaptive, and powered by intelligence that runs directly on the device. We’re looking for an engineer who’s excited to shape modern, intuitive experiences, and help define how users across HP’s global footprint interact with intelligent systems every day. You’ll lead by example, drive core application architecture, and help shape a flagship product from the ground up. What You Might Do Design and build native Windows applications that are performant, responsive, and polished. Develop on-device experiences that adapt in real time to

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$165K – $247K/yr

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Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. About The Role & Team Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, and our ability to deliver measurable customer outcomes quickly is a key part of how we keep that lead. The Customer FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering) team sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success — owning the technical delivery that takes validated products from co-development and implements them across enterprise customers. As a Customer Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own end-to-end technical delivery for enterprise customer implementations, from sales engagement through post-deployment validation. You'll work directly in Amplitude's product codebase, submitting PRs, shipping customer-specific solutions, and building reusable patterns that make every successive engagement faster. This is not a traditional support or solutions role. Customer FDEs a

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$179K – $252K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities.Our team collaborates with internal and external partners to develop unique solutions using cutting edge hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing embedded software team in a startup environment Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex hardware/software integration issues Communicate technical vision, risks, and progress clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders Own system-level strategy, architecture, and technical direction across multiple products Drive execution of low-level driver and framework software development in C and C++ across multiple devices and operating systems Oversee integration between hardware and software, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams Guide performance, power, and thermal optimization efforts Balance hands-on technical invol

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$140K – $225K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ's Connectivity team is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer with strong hands-on experience across RTOS and embedded Linux platforms. You'll bring up new hardware, develop and support firmware across core device subsystems, and help scale products from prototype to fleet deployment. A key part of this role is enabling on-device intelligence — bringing AI models, sensing algorithms, and local processing to lightweight, power-constrained devices at the edge. What You Might Do Design, develop, and debug firmware across RTOS and embedded Linux platforms. Lead hardware bring-up — board bring-up, driver integration, and firmware support through to production. Develop and maintain firmware for subsystems such as connectivity, power and other sensors. Integrate lightweight model inference and sensing/proximity algorithms within tight compute, memory, and power budgets. Support fleet-scale deployment: OTA updates, field diagnostics, and post-launch sustainment. Collaborate with hardware, systems, and QA teams to troubleshoot system-level issues and drive root-cause fixes to closure. Ess

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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$140K – $170K/yr

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Technical Support Manager About the role: We are looking for a technically skilled, self-motivated, customer-focused manager to lead a team of high energy Support Engineers. In this role you will be responsible for hiring, developing and mentoring team members as well as delivering against key performance metrics. You'll lead process improvements for customer and partner growth, retention, and excellence, while fostering individual contributions and driving cross-functional projects that spark innovation and collaboration. You need to be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and continuously challenge the team to step outside their comfort zone. Minimum Education Requirement This position requires a U.S. Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical field. This requirement is a minimum and cannot be substituted by work experience alone. What You Will Be Doing Become a product expert and stay technically close to complex and critical customer escalations. Lead a team of exceptional product experts providing the Sigma user base with an excellent customer experience. Hire, develop and train a strong team of Support Engineers on an ongoing basis. Own strategic areas of the Support organization end to end, from strategy through measurable outcomes. Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to solve customer challenges and drive cross-functional outcomes. Drive performance against key Support metrics, including CSAT, Initial Response, SLA, and Time to Resolution. Continuously refine processes to optimize efficiency, elevating customer support operations. Uncover golden insights within Support data, translating them into actionable strategies that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and business outcomes. Develop a reputation for excellence, high credibility and integrity with

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $210K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role We're seeking an experienced Senior Optimization Engineer to join our Data Science Team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of optimization models that power our software platform across applications including electricity markets, renewable energy, and battery energy storage systems. You will be responsible for developing production-grade optimization engines that solve complex operational and planning problems at scale. This role requires deep expertise in mathematical optimization, strong software engineering skills in Python, and experience building optimization models that integrate with production systems. The ideal candidate has significant experience in the energy industry, particularly electricity markets and battery storage optimization. This position emphasizes technical leadership, ownership of complex optimization projects, and collaboration across engineering, product, and commercial teams to deliver high-impact optimization solutions. Key Res

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$175K – $210K/yr

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As Sigma scales its global footprint, the Sales Engineering (SE) organization is the technical engine driving our GTM motion. We are looking for a Strategy and Operations Lead, SE to partner directly with our VP of SE and serve as the operational bedrock for this critical organization. Operating within our broader GTM Strategy & Operations team, you will own the global operating rhythm, operational infrastructure, and capacity planning for the entire SE organization. You will drive strategy across a highly matrixed, global environment. You are part strategist, part builder, and part operator - responsible for ensuring our pre-sales motion scales seamlessly. What You Will Do Drive Business Reporting & the SE Operating Rhythm: Own the cadence of the SE organization. Design and execute regular business reviews and leverage Sigma to build robust, real-time reporting that gives the VP of SE crystal-clear visibility into technical pipeline health, team utilization, and conversion metrics. Optimize Funnel Mechanics & Deal Acceleration: Deep dive into the pre-sales funnel to identify where deals stall during technical validation. Partner with SE leadership to optimize the Proof of Concept (POC) lifecycle, remove friction, and accelerate the technical win. Lead Global Headcount & Capacity Planning: Serve as the SE representative in cross-functional GTM planning cycles. Own end-to-end global SE capacity requirements, design territory allocation frameworks, and manage annual headcount planning seamlessly across AMER, EMEA, and APAC. Build Solutions in Sigma: Leverage Sigma itself to build robust operational solutions, designing the dashboards, data models, and workflows needed for POC tracking, capacity management, and performance visibility. Act as the Cross-Functional Hub: Represent the SE organization in all major GTM Strategy & Operations initiatives. Serve as the connective tissue between SE, Sales, Product, and RevOps, ensuring SE requir

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team Come help us build and develop tools serving hundreds of engineers internally! We’re looking for a Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Developer Insights team. About the Role Our mission is to improve the developer experience of engineers at DoorDash by building various internal products, including our internal developer portal, Developer Insights. Our success as a platform team depends on the success of the product teams we serve. Because of this, we invest in building a strong community that encourages participation and promotes best practices. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Introduce cutting edge technologies to our engineering organization, including tools built on LLMs Build new features for Developer Insights (using Backstage.io) Improve the developer experience for all of our engineers Work and collaborate across team boundaries. Contribute features and bug fixes to upstream open-source projects. Mentor and educate your peers. Lead the team in a technical fashion and assist in roadmap planning and measurement of existing features. Represent the team at large in OKR and engineering all-hands presentations. Context switch from frontend to backend to data depending on the need that arises. We’re excited about you because… You have at least 2 years of experience in web technologies using Typescript with React on the frontend with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go backend experience. You have a product mindset and apply that to how you would build out platform services. You love systems and software, and you're proficient in both. You’re curious and dive deep into different system architectures. You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator. You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software Compensation The successful candidate’s starti

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and fi nancial reporting. Team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Sta ff Software Engineer,Data to be a technical lead and help architect and scale our data reliability, data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will... Own critical data systems that support multiple products/teams Develop, implement and enforce best practices for data infrastructure and automation Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Improve the reliability and scalability of our Ingestion, data processing, ETLs, Reporting tools and data ecosystem services Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We’re excited about you because... 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects 6+ years experience working in data platform and data engineering or a similar role You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software Pro fi ciency in programming languages such as Python/Kotlin/Scala 4+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and work fl ow management tools like Air fl ow Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, data reliability practices and distributed computing 4+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kaa/Flink/Spark Streaming Excellent communication skills and experience working

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash for Business is how companies feed their people. We build the products that let a company run a recurring team lunch, give every employee a meal budget, cater an event or meeting and manage all of it through a single corporate account - across every brand and every market DoorDash operates in. About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in DoorDash for Business. Our domain runs from the moment an order is placed to everything a company needs to administer it: high-complexity ordering for catering, recurring team meals, and group orders; the admin portal, identity, and member management that companies run their account on; budgets and policy enforcement; and the expense and travel integrations that connect us to our customers' finance systems. You'll own a pod of 8-10 engineers with a critical charter inside that domain, real revenue attached to it, and close partnership with Product, Design, and Sales Strategy & Operations. You must be located in the Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own a business-critical charter end to end - set technical direction, define the roadmap with your PM and Business counterparts, and be accountable for what ships and how well it runs. Build and grow a team - Hire, level up, and retain engineers; set the bar for what good looks like on your pod; give people work that stretches them. Work on a genuinely global product - Your charter serves the US alongside EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with partner pods in India, Helsinki, and Brazil. You'll help decide what's built once globally versus what needs regional variation and build the partnerships across time zones to make that stick Take on real architectural weight - Consolidating onto one global stack means untangling parallel implementations, drawing clean service-ownership lines, and making migration calls with production tr

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team Our team exists to empower DoorDash Mobile engineers. We are the champions of three core pillars: Quality, Velocity, and Efficiency. Ultimately, our goal is to build the supportive infrastructure that allows our fellow engineers to build, ship, and operate apps at massive scale—with confidence and ease. We believe that a great developer experience leads to a great customer experience. About the Role We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Mobile Developer Experience team (also known internally as the Mobile Foundations team). In this role, you’ll not only set the technical vision but also nurture the culture required to build world-class mobile applications. Your team will concentrate on one vertical—ZeroKit, which enables rapid mobile prototyping via agents—and two horizontal infrastructure pillars: the iOS and Android monorepos. You will partner with senior engineers and stakeholders across the company to design systems that make our platform faster, more reliable, and more efficient. You will be a partner to your customers—your fellow engineers—working side-by-side to understand their hurdles and solve their immediate challenges. You’ll also look to the future, anticipating needs so we can deliver solutions before they become blockers. Crucially, this role will support our growing international engineering footprint and unified technology stack, meaning you and your team will work across our DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo brands. This is a unique opportunity to lead a team through a mix of exciting greenfield initiatives and the refinement of established, successful tools. You must be located in the following locations for this opportunity: San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, New York. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to excel at mobile engineering. Lead the development and strategy for ZeroKit to enabl

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$260K – $290K/yr

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About VSCO For years, we've helped photographers create their work. Now we're building what comes next. VSCO exists for photographers. Not as a side feature, not as an afterthought, but as the whole point. We build the connected system photographers rely on, and we've spent over a decade earning the trust of a global creative community that takes the craft seriously. Photography is at an inflection point. AI is reshaping what's possible for creative work, and that's where our mission shines. VSCO is building the full photographer's workflow: from creating and editing your work, to delivering it to clients, to running your business. All of it built thoughtfully, with photographers leading the way. We believe the future of photography tools creates more space for creativity, handling the busy work so photographers can focus on the craft. If you care about craft, community, and what technology can unlock for creative people, this is the work. We're a mission-driven and focused company where your work ships quickly, is meaningful, and reaches tens of millions of people worldwide. You'll have a real say in what we build and how we build it. We hire people who don't wait to be asked, naturally connect the dots, care about the quality of what they ship, and believe the best outcomes come from building together. About The Role VSCO is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to own Reflex, our production GPU image-processing engine, and the path it takes into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS. This is a critical technical leader. You will deepen a stack that is already in customers’ hands: new capabilities (RAW, large-image export, desktop), production quality (color correctness, memory, performance), and the contracts that let product engineers ship on top of the engine without becoming graphics programmers. You will also lead company-wide engineering mentorship and force-multiplication — tools, workflows, and AI-assisted development that make the rest of the team more effective. In This

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$230K – $270K/yr

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Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. As we grow the engineering team, we are looking for engineering leaders who want to build great products, devising product development, prioritization and execution strategy as well as developing a strong team providing career development, coaching, mentoring, performance evaluations, developing promotion cases, and other managerial responsibilities. About the role: We are looking for a self motivated, engineering leader eager to lead engineering teams with high performing engineers. You will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and support your teams to deliver incrementally against our roadmap. What you will be doing: Collaborate with cross-functional groups, executive team, field teams to devise business impact product strategy Enable the team to realize their potential and set them for achieving their career development goals Own execution and delivery of roadmaps, to help setup the business and your team for success Partner with the staffing team to recruit and build performing team Instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability within the team wherein members hold each other to a high bar Participate in discussions pertaining to the architecture and implementation techniques to represent, translate and optimize user directives into optimized queries You: Love working with world-class engineers, product managers, and architects to solve complex problems and enable business impact Have 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years of people management experience Are opinionated and have great product sense make data driven decisions when unblocking the business Have hired, and developed high performing engineering teams Are curious, love to learn and to dig into new technologies to apply them when solving technical challenges Have demonstrated strong technical architecture and engineering skil

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Meet your Future Neighbors As an Analytics Engineer 4 with Nextdoor, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) (May telecommute from any U.S. location) you’ll: Apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to design, create, and select the appropriate samples of data that will allow the data science team to conduct probabilistic experiments and statistical analyses Design software systems and processes to gather data in the most efficient way and determine key data points needed in order to interpret experiment results and ensure results are properly tracked Interpret data and report conclusions drawn from their analyses Work with cross-functional teams, including product, design, engineering, marketing, operations, and sales, to determine which data analyses will lead to the most actionable insights Build data pipelines to create and transform data for analysis of different product features Clean and summarize data to make it accessible for reporting and for data science Combine data from multiple sources to make and distribute client reports in order to see how particular ad products are performing Analyze expected vs actual delivery of ad products in order to find and improve gaps in our delivery pipeline What You’ll Bring to The House Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, or closely related quantitative field. Three (3) years of years of experience in the role or in a related position. Full term of experience m

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