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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.8M/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The People Technology stack has never been more capable, the differentiator now is the expertise to unlock it. . As a Senior Workday Engineer at Lyft, you'll be the technical cornerstone of our People Technology team, owning the design, development, and delivery of the integrations, custom applications, and AI solutions that the entire People function depends on. This role uniquely combines deep, demonstrable mastery across the full Workday technology stack with an AI-native engineering approach, enabling you to build solutions that don't just automate what exists today but fundamentally raise the bar for how People Technology delivers value. We're seeking a hands-on engineer who commands the full depth of the Workday ecosystem, from Studio and Core Connectors to Extend and Prism Analytics, and brings the technical judgment to architect solutions that scale with the business. You'll be the trusted technical owner of our People Technology platforms, partnering closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, and Benefits stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions that truly move the needle. With AI reshaping how People Technology teams operate, your expertise will be critical in actively identifying, building, and shipping AI-powered solutions that eliminate manual work, accelerate delivery, and push our teams from tactical execution to strategic impact. In this role, you'll integrate LLMs into HR workflows, build and maintain MCP servers that expose People systems data securely to AI agents, mentor junior engineers, and set the engineering standard for a team that is redefining what enterprise People Technology looks like. If you are a candidate who has the vision of what could be, who has the ability to cultivate relationships, and has a belief in driving impact, then you

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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 a Wireless Systems Software Engineer , you will help build the core software libraries and system infrastructure that power the next generation of wireless experiences at HP IQ. You will work across hardware, firmware, embedded software, operating systems, and product teams to integrate and optimize multiple wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), NFC , and future connectivity solutions. You will play a key role in designing scalable software architectures that bridge hardware and software, enabling seamless communication across embedded devices and host platforms. This position offers the opportunity to work on challenging system-level problems, influence the architecture of a new wireless ecosystem, and help define technologies that will shape the future of work. What You Might Do Serve as a technic al expert across wireless technologies including Bluetooth, UWB, NFC , and related embedded communication interfaces. Architect, design, and develop reusable, scalable wireless software libraries with well-defined API

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $240K/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 is seeking a Senior Power Systems Engineer to drive end to end system architecture, modeling, and optimization for wearable platforms. The candidate will build power models, define system use cases and operating modes, partner with product and engineering teams to meet aggressive power targets, and define manufacturing tests and field telemetry for NPI. The ideal candidate brings strong systems thinking, hands-on experience with low power architectures, and the ability to build models and telemetry to drive tradeoffs from SOC level to board level to maximize user runtime. What You Might Do: Power architecture responsibility for a wearable device covering SoC states, sensor, audio, and memory architecture tradeoffs at board level. Battery, PCM, and charging profile definition and validation Design power experiments, test plans, and measurement & telemetry mechanisms across firmware and hardware to optimize power and performance. Build and maintain system-level power models to model expected power consumption for user profiles. Map power models by subsystem, correlating

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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C$45 – C$51/hr

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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 a Software Engineering Intern on the Systems team at HP IQ, you’ll work on low-level software that sits close to the hardware and helps power intelligent experiences across our products. This role is ideal for students who enjoy understanding how complex systems work under the hood. You’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple layers of the software stack, investigate performance bottlenecks, optimize system behavior, and build software that interacts closely with hardware and system resources. We’re looking for engineers who are curious about more than whether something works — you want to understand how it works, why it performs the way it does, and how to make it better. What You Might Do Build and optimize low-level systems software using languages such as C and C++. Investigate performance bottlenecks and improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of existing systems. Work on data processing and sensor pipelines that connect software with underlying hardware. Analyze and improve memory usage, resource management, and system performance. Work across multiple lay

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $187K/yr

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Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable’s infrastructure is evolving to meet the needs of our fast growing engineering org. We are looking for infrastructure engineers to join our team to help improve critical product infrastructure, with a focus on building systems that have a great developer experience and will scale as we grow. We currently have openings on: Asynchronous Serving: The Asynchronous Serving team is scaling critical systems used by Airtable’s most essential and up-and-coming product features, especially AI features. Upcoming projects include refactoring our background task queue to track its tasks in DynamoDB, adding quality of service to the job queue, and revamping a streaming service to handle 10x scale while being more resilient. Compute: The compute pod builds and manages our Kubernetes-based platform that supports every service at Airtable, including all new AI services such as vector databases, AI evals store, and document extraction and understanding services. We have a lot of exciting foundational work in our roadmap, such as Overhauling our network stack and service discovery, to simplify service setup and strengthen security Region level disaster recovery, and bringing up compute platform from 0->1 in a new region Building custom Kubernetes operators for reliably managing some of our most critical workloads Developer Platform : The Developer Platform team sits at the intersection of all engineering at Airtable, focusing on building the internal tooling, frameworks, and CI/CD systems that power our product teams. We strive to streamline developer workflows - from build and test cycles to production deployments—and foster a best-in-class developer experience. Join us if you’re passionate about creating high-lever

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Within Pinterest, the Pinterest Labs organization focuses on applied ML research and development. Labs works across a broad variety of AI/ML initiatives—including core computer vision, multimodal representation learning, heterogeneous graph neural networks, generative modeling, and recommender systems. This is the group that develops the foundation ML models that fully leverage the tens of billions of Pins and the associated knowledge graph to improve the core product

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Platforms TPM organization partners with Experimentation, ML, LLM/GenAI, and Data Infrastructure teams to shape how Pinterest measures everything that matters — from product experiments to AI systems to the platforms everyone builds on. What you'll do: As a Staff Technical Program Manager for Measurement, you'll have the rare opportunity to shape how a company the size of Pinter

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Pinterest Labs group is dedicated to the development and research of applied machine learning. Our initiatives span a diverse range of AI/ML fields, including fundamental computer vision, multimodal large language models, multimodal representation learning, generative modeling, heterogeneous graph neural networks, and recommender systems. By building foundation ML models that utilize our extensive knowledge graph and billions of Pins, we aim to significantly enhan

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $170K/yr

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Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible toolkit that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us. As a Full-Stack, Backend engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful. We currently have openings on: The Admin & Governance Team (Full-Stack/BE) ensures Airtable is secure, compliant, and enterprise-ready. It owns key admin capabilities like the Admin Panel, SSO, and audit systems, as well as foundational features like User Groups. This team's mission is to accelerate organizational value for the largest customers with enterprise-first governance and controls. The Omni Capability & Quality Team (Full-Stack/BE) brings the power of AI directly to Airtable end users—

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $962.4K/yr

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About the Team The Global Safety and Security team advances DoorDash by protecting people, property, operations, brand, and reputation. Within that team, Protective Services safeguards executives and residences through executive protection, intelligence collection, threat monitoring, residential security, and secure transportation. We manage risk and deliver value through technology and a people-first approach, and we strive to always be ahead of the curve and there for our people, anytime, anywhere. About the Role We are hiring Protective Services Associates to join the Protective Services team, providing residential security coverage and on-site protective presence in support of executives. This is the entry point on our cross-trained career ladder. Associates build proficiency across residential security, monitoring and threat reporting, and close-protection fundamentals, with a structured path to Senior Associate and beyond as you grow. Responsibilities Residential Security Coverage: Provide dedicated, round-the-clock physical security presence at a residential property as part of a rotating shift team. Monitoring & Threat Reporting: Monitor camera systems and access points, document and report security-relevant activity, and hand off findings to the team's intelligence function. Access Control: Screen and coordinate visitors, deliveries, and vendors according to established protocols. Logistics Coordination: Plan and manage the logistics of residential security operations, including scheduling, shift handoffs, and coverage during events or executive travel. Coordinate with drivers and other Protective Services team members to align movements, timing, and coverage. Incident Response: Respond to security incidents or anomalies, following established escalation procedures. Professional Conduct: Serve as a trusted, hands-on point of contact for executives, anticipating needs, exercising sound judgment in real time, and delivering discreet, concierge-level servi

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19 days ago
📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$114K – $200K/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 We are seeking an experienced IT Engineer to own and enhance the technology experience within HP IQ. This role combines traditional IT operations, SaaS administration, endpoint management, and infrastructure support with a strong focus on automation, scalability, and employee experience. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem solver who thrives in fast-paced startup environments, takes ownership of systems and processes, and proactively identifies opportunities to improve tooling, security, and operational efficiency. You will serve as a technical escalation point for the IT Support team while helping shape the future of our internal technology stack. What you might do Manage and administer core business platforms including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta, Slack, and other SaaS applications. Ensure employees have a seamless and productive technology experience across all systems and devices. Evaluate, implement, and optimize tools and workflows that improve employee productivity and reduce operational friction. Develop and maintain IT documentation, standards, processes, and

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We're hiring a Robotics Infrastructure Engineer in our Autonomy Software team. In this role, you'll own, build, and manage the infrastructure that makes aerial autonomy development possible. You'll work on the onboard systems that keep a drone alive (process management, health monitoring, parameterization) and the development environment that makes the team fast (build systems, CI/CD, logging, debugging, regression testing). This is not cloud infrastructure. This is real-time, fault-tolerant, onboard software for vehicles that cannot gracefully restart at 50 meters altitude. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team Develop and own critical onboard components: process management, health monitoring, configuration management, and message passing Own the build system (C++, Python) and middleware layer (ROS2), including cross-compilation for Jetson targets Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and regression testing infrastructure Build and manage the parameterization system, including schema definition, validation, migration, and deployment Build robotics logging, plotting, and debugging tools that make the entire team more productive Work closely with the simulation team to support SIL/HIL development workflows Define reliability standards for onboard software: watchdogs, failover, and graceful degradation We're excited about you because… You have prior experience at a robotics company in a similar infrastructure role You have experience with robotics middleware (ROS2, LCM, eCal, Apex.AI) You have experience with build systems and package managers (CMake, Bazel, Nix, Conan) You have experience with NVidia Jetson and Je

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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₹1.5L – ₹1.9L/yr

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At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. We have an ambitious goal to strengthen our international presence by growing a life-changing product, and your efforts will play an essential role in our collective success. Growth teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making to drive business growth. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our users (both Drivers and Riders) to make the most effective use of Lyft’s products and experiences by making them more predictive, personalized, and adaptive. We’re looking for someone who can build & own innovative applications, passionate about solving problems with distributed computing in building reliable systems, and is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and collegial environment. As a Senior Software Engineer, with your technical expertise you will build and own innovative applications with a desire to achieve exceptional design fidelity, usability, accessibility, and performance. You will be responsible for sound technical execution of projects through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping. These projects will require close collaboration with our product managers, user interface designers, brand producers, data scientists, and engineering teams. You’ll be managing multiple exciting projects at once, so being able to juggle these initiatives is key! We’re also counting on you to be a champion for best engineering practices, guiding engineers, designers, and management along the way. We are looking for candidates who are self starters and have a proven track record of delivering software solutions that can solve critical business needs. We’re looking for a candidate who thrives in tackling complex, ambiguous challenges and can

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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$84K – $120K/yr

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We believe communication belongs to everyone. We exist to democratize phone service. TextNow is evolving the way the world connects, and that's because we're made up of people with curious minds who bring an optimistic yet critical lens into the work we do. We're the largest provider of free phone service in the nation. And we're just getting started. Join us in our mission to break down barriers to communication and free the flow of conversation for people everywhere. TextNow is looking for an experienced Data Developer with hands-on experience designing and developing data platforms. You will own the design, development, and maintenance of TextNow's data platform, enabling us to make effective data-informed decisions. You will be part of cross-functional efforts to build scalable and reliable frameworks that support allTextNow's business and data products. In this role, you can interact with different functional areas within the business and influence decision-making in a fast-growing mobile communications start-up. This role is about impact at scale. You’ll shape how TextNow builds and operates its systems in an AI-first environment where intelligent tooling is embedded into everyday engineering practice. Using AI is not optional, it’s expected. From design and architecture to implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational analysis, you will actively leverage AI tools to increase velocity, improve code quality, and make better technical decisions. We provide a robust suite of AI-powered development tools and workflows to support you, and we expect you to continuously evolve how you use them to raise the bar for efficiency, clarity, and product excellence across the organization. What You'll Do Own TextNow's data warehouse, data pipelines, and integration points between various business systems. Design, develo

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