Senior Optimization Engineer in San Francisco

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

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 financial reporting. By implementing pipelines, data structures, and data warehouse architectures; this team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to be a technical powerhouse to help us scale our data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. This is a hybrid position and you must be located in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or Seattle. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand data requirements Work with engineering, product teams and 3rd parties to collect required data Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Develop and implement data quality checks, conduct QA and implement monitoring routines Improve the reliability and scalability of our ETL processes 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... 5+ years of professional experience 3+ years experience working in data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar role Proficiency in programming languages such as Python/Java 3+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow, Flink, Oozie and Azkaban using AWS/GCP Expert in Database fundamentals, SQL and distributed computing 3+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Druid, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kafka/Flink. Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and/or other DBMS platforms Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and non-tec

About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will set the technical direction for our in-house Spark deployment and shape the architecture that will run DoorDash's data, analytics, and ML compute for the next five years and beyond. You will own the deep, cross-cutting problems that span the runtime, the shuffle service, the scheduler, and the overall service reliability — making the architectural calls that compound across the platform's lifetime. You will partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, and team shape, and act as the senior technical voice in cross-team partnerships with Data Engineering, ML Platform, and product engineering teams that depend on the platform. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Set the multi-year technical direction for an in-house Spark-on-Kubernetes platform — runtime, shuffle, scheduler, reliability — and make the architectural calls that compound for years. Own the deepest distributed-systems problems on the team: shuffle architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, runtime performance, and the failure modes that only show up at scale. Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, inte

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 Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services, you will create scalable, reliable backend systems that support HP IQ's mission to transform the way people work. We value how we work as much as what we deliver. Our journey of continuous learning and evolution requires a flexible and resilient services platform that fosters innovation, experimentation, and adaptation. To enable this, we focus on designs and tools rooted in strong engineering principles like abstraction, composition, virtualization, automation, and iterative development cycles. What You Might Do Design, develop, and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot. Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code following established best practices. Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end features. Integrate with databases and external services, ensuring performance, security, and reliability. Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization efforts. Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and support application deployment in cloud and

About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience SQL query optimization and database internals Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240

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. With a billion rides per year and counting, Lyft is solving hard problems in a rapidly growing domain with a lot of data and creative solutions in Rider, Marketplace, Growth, and beyond. While traditional approaches to optimization and problem decomposition are sufficient to disrupt transportation, building a next-generation platform for low-cost, ultra-immersive transportation to improve people's lives warrants modern ML utilizing peta-byte scale data. Our highly motivated Machine Learning Engineers work on these challenging problems and define solutions to directly impact various aspects of our core business. If you are a critical thinker with experience in machine learning workflows and LLMs, passionate about solving business problems using data and working in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment, we are searching for you. We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Rider Applied AI team and lead the design, development, and deployment of state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. This role requires a strategic thinker who can balance high-level system architecture with hands-on technical implementation. You will collaborate across teams to shape the future of ride-sharing by leveraging AI, Machine learning and Data science. Responsibilities: Model Development & Research: Design, build, and deploy machine learning models for real-time applications, including translating state-of-the-art research into production-ready solutions. System Design: Architect scalable, reliable ML pipelines that integrate seamlessly with existing backend systems. Innovation & Applied Research: Stay ahead of the curve by exploring emerging algorithms, technologies (such as LLMs and LLM-based applications), and frameworks — critically eva

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

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

About Scale Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. As the leading AI data foundry, we provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s most advanced models — fueling breakthroughs in generative AI, defense, and autonomous vehicles. We partner with leading enterprises and governments to bring AI into production that performs when it matters most, combining rigorous evaluation with full-stack deployment so our customers can build AI they can trust. About the Team Applied Intelligence Systems (AIS) is part of the Scale Generative AI Platform (SGP), focused on pushing the frontier of what agentic applications can do across diverse enterprise and government use cases. We build the infrastructure and tooling that power agentic AI in production, paired with applied ML research, design, and evaluation to ensure these systems perform reliably at the scale our customers demand. AIS spans multiple workstreams — agent evaluation and oversight, orchestration and tool-use infrastructure, model and systems optimization, and applied research on new agent capabilities — and this role is not scoped to any single one of them. We’re growing fast, with increasing traction across both commercial and public sector customers, and we’re just getting started — this team will define what dependable, production-grade agentic AI looks like. About the Role As a Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, you will operate across the full breadth of AIS’s technical needs — wherever the hardest ML problem in agentic AI happens to be that quarter. This could mean training and fine-tuning models, designing evaluation and observability systems, building improvement loops from production data, prototyping novel agent architectures, or designing internal systems and tooling that boost productivity across teams. You’re not tied to one team’s roadmap; you’re expected to move to where the technical leverage is highest, and t

About Scale AI Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. Role Overview As a Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, architect custom AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a hands-on technical role that combines deep engineering expertise with customer-facing problem solving. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows. Key Responsibilities Customer Integration & Deployment Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs) Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries AI Agent Development Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement Prompt Engineering & Optimization Create sophisticate

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Media Experience team exists to empower users to discover, consume, and engage with the best media content on Reddit. We do that by making video consumption intuitive and engaging. Because video is a powerful medium for community connection, our goal is to ensure our video experience is best-in-class for every user. Our north star is growing video views and video users . These are users who consistently return to Reddit for the unique, authentic content that fuels our communities. Achieving this level of consistent engagement requires a product flywheel that surfaces the right video features, UI optimizations, and playback improvements at the right moment to accelerate organic engagement. We use data, Quality of Experience (QoE) signals, and rapid product experimentation to identify and resolve any friction preventing a seamless viewing experience. We move with urgency, instrument everything, and treat a missed engagement milestone as a signal to learn from, not a number to ignore. If you want to build iOS video experiences that measurably change the trajectory of tens of millions of users and improve the overall engagement of Reddit itself, this is your team. What you’ll do: 🚀 Drive the Technical Strategy for Media Engagement Lead the iOS architecture for user-facing features that boost video discovery and consumption. You’ll design and build immersive viewing surfaces and intuitive UI/UX flows that directly maximize watch time, user retention, and daily active video consumers. 🔬 Champion for User Experience With

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 Growth Products team drives rider and driver acquisition to scale the business and balance the marketplace. We specialize in incentive and messaging targeting, budget optimization, and paid media measurement, and move rapidly to test new ideas and products. As a Data Scientist expert in causal inference and marketing mix models (MMM), you will lead our efforts to measure and optimize investments across marketing channels. Responsibilities: Deliver results across the entire lifecycle of data science solutions for Growth: from defining the problem with cross-functional stakeholders to deploying production models that address key business problems. Own complex domains and develop long-term roadmaps to maximize business impact. Build statistical pipelines, write production code, and design/analyze experiments. Participate in the science on-call rotation to ensure automated campaigns operate successfully. Experience: Advanced degree in statistics, economics, mathematics, or equivalent industry experience. 4+ years of industry experience in causal inference or data science. Proven ability to apply statistics to unstructured problems and deliver measurable results. Deep technical expertise in causal inference and tackling challenging measurement problems. Expertise in marketing mix modeling is highly preferred. Expertise in SQL and experience with large-scale data platforms. Proficiency in Python and working within production coding environments. Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled Mental health benefits Family building benefits Child care and pet benefits 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team membe

(Sr.) Revenue Accounting Manager Sigma Computing is seeking a Senior Revenue Manager to join our Revenue team and play a key role in managing revenue accounting and revenue operations in a fast-growing SaaS environment. Reporting to the Senior Director of Revenue, this role will own key aspects of the revenue close, revenue recognition, contract review, and related processes. The Senior Revenue Manager will serve as a subject-matter expert on revenue accounting, partnering closely with Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, FP&A, and Finance to assess complex customer arrangements, ensure appropriate revenue treatment, and build scalable processes and controls. Key Responsibilities Own key components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue close, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, and related reconciliations. Ensure compliance with ASC 606 and applicable accounting standards. Review customer contracts and non-standard arrangements to determine appropriate revenue recognition. Partner with Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, FP&A, and Finance to assess the accounting implications of new products, pricing structures, and complex deals. Review and approve revenue-related journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules. Develop, maintain, and improve revenue accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls. Own accurate and timely billing operations, including review and validation of sales tax applied to customer invoices. Own sales tax compliance processes, including periodic reviews of nexus, taxability, and potential exposure across applicable jurisdictions. Support internal and external audits, including preparation of revenue-related schedules and documentation. Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and scale revenue processes. Partner with Finance Systems and other stakeholders on revenue system enhancements and process improvements. Support the implementation and optimization of revenue-related

Location - Hybrid This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, Corporate Headquarter office, 3 days in the office, 2 days remote OR one of our Hub locations, Boston, MA or Raleigh, NC, which means you may be expected to work from a designated co-working space from time to time, and will otherwise work remotely from home, until such time as a dedicated office is established. About Us Sauce Labs is the world’s largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world’s top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality. Learn more at http://saucelabs.com . Release Assurance at the Speed of AI | Meet the new Sauce Labs The Role The Senior Director, Growth is an AI-first revenue leader responsible for setting the macro strategy, revenue architecture, and cross-functional alignment of an intelligent, end-to-end pipeline engine. Reporting to executive leadership, this role bridges marketing and sales executive strategy—focusing on expanding our outbound/inbound SDR function, driving predictive pipeline models, and enabling functional marketing leads to scale their teams. Rather than managing day-to-day tactical execution, you will focus on high-level channel architecture, budget optimization, sales leadership alignment, and scaling our revenue operations to maximize global pipeline output. Responsibilities Pipeline Strategy & Executive Revenue Alignment Align on global pipeline target setting, forecasting models, and macro growth strategy across inbound and outbound channels. Champion an agentic AI revenue stack, equipping functional leaders and teams with predictive tools, d

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As Executive Assistant to 3 Senior Leaders (VP, Workplace & Real Estate, VP, Reward & Wellness, and Director, HR Operations), you’ll be responsible for keeping the leaders and teams organized, aligned, and helping them maintain focus while scaling for growth and delivering an exceptional internal and external experience. In this role, you’ll be directly supporting the VP, Workplace & Real Estate, VP, Reward & Wellness, and Director, HR Operations to strategically manage day-to-day administrative and operational needs, infuse Figma’s culture and values in the work to create a meaningful Figmate experience, and cross-functionally collaborate with the broader People Org and stakeholders across Figma. This is a full-time role based out of our SF Hub. What you'll do at Figma: Assist your Executives (VP, Workplace & Real Estate, VP, Reward & Wellness, and Director, HR Operations) with calendar, travel, meetings, tasks, notes, emails Serve as a strategic partner to the VPs and their leadership teams, with a focus on team cohesion, operations, and planning Identify areas to optimize the VPs’ time and make recommendations regarding time management, prioritization, and business needs Act as a delegate for the VPs by signing off on expenses, approving POs, and managing other tooling as needed, with careful attention to internal policy Find opportunities for process optimization across team and company workflows Prepare and/or build content, presentations, and key documents for the V