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📍 Canada· Full-time
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From C$58K/yr

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic candidate to provide exceptional Customer Service support to the Airbnb community as a CS Specialist, Premium Support. The ideal candidate is hospitable, analytical, and committed to delivering the highest standards of service in both English and French, spoken and written . Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in British Columbia, Canada to be able to conduct their work. The Difference You Will Make: The Specialist, Premium Support functions on the front line interacting directly with both customers & internal stakeholders. As a CS Specialist, Premium Support, you will be responsible for providing end-to-end support to key members of our community, including but not limited to the Luxury segment. You will primarily take ownership of cases, ensuring complete resolution while fostering strong relationships with our users along the way. CS Specialist, Premium Support needs strong communication skills in English and French, problem-solving abilities, and customer service expertise. They should also be adaptable and responsive in our fast paced environment, sometimes under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient and demonstrating a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. As part of this role, you are required to be flexible and may be required to move to different teams within Community Support and/or take up different responsibilities from those set out below. The ideal candidate will be open to a role which will evolve based on business nee

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📍 Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -86.2%

From C$63K/yr

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for a talented and experienced person, who will look after a variety of Safety concerns for our community, including but not limited to: Discrimination, Personal Safety Threats, Domestic Violence, Suicide or Self Harm, Child Exploitation, Physical Assault and Sexual Assault, Drugs activity, Sex Work and Human Trafficking. The successful candidate will demonstrate an excellent understanding of how to properly identify threatening and harmful circumstances, empathetic communication, use of good judgment, and quick decision making, with the goal of providing the best support possible for the Survivors and restore their status quo. This is a full time position based in Canada - Remote. This position is a frontline, contact center role interacting directly with the customers. Successful candidates need strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and customer service expertise. They should also be adaptable and responsive in our fast paced environment, sometimes under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient and demonstrating a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. As part of this role, you are required to be flexible and may be required to move to different teams within Community Support and/or take up different responsibilities from those set out below. The ideal candidate will be open to a role which will evolve based on business needs and will be flexible to meet those needs. A Typical Day: The responsibilities listed below are not exhau

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📍 Canada· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team ensures that our customers' experience is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide guidance, and support customers in maximizing value with our products. Within User Operations, Ads Safety Operations helps OpenAI grow advertising in a way that is safe, trusted, and sustainable for advertisers, users and the business. The Ads Safety Support team sits within Ads Safety Operations and owns the advertiser-facing support journey: helping advertisers navigate ads products, policies, reviews, and enforcement decisions while turning frontline insights into better guidance, tooling, and product experiences. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Advertiser Support Specialist to help build and scale advertiser support within Ads Safety Operations. You’ll work directly with advertisers through support tickets, escalations, owning high-impact questions related to ads policies, review outcomes, product behavior, and operational processes. Many cases will be novel or ambiguous, and you’ll be expected to investigate carefully, communicate clearly, and drive them to resolution in a fast-moving product environment. As OpenAI’s advertising ecosystem grows, your work will help advertisers operate successfully at scale while serving as a critical bridge between frontline support and the teams responsible for product quality, policy integrity, and platform safety. Beyond resolving individual cases, you’ll help define what world-class support looks like in an AI-native environment. You’ll turn support interactions into operational intelligence, identifying recurring friction, gaps in guidance, and emerging issues to improve support at scale, and protect the quality and safety of OpenAI’s ad ecosystem. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, Policy, Legal and Go To Market partners to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technol

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: We're seeking a Director of Product Support Operations to lead the team that runs how Tubi's Tech Org plans, executes, and ships. PSO is a deliberately lean, AI-first team of Technical Program Managers and Customer Experience specialists built around three durable jobs: orchestrating agentic systems, people, and the cross-team programs that land Tubi's most complex initiatives for over 100 million monthly active users. You will own the Tech Org's most complex, company-level programs, spanning live events, platform integrations, monetization, and financial operations, along with the agentic systems that carry the org's operational load. You will also own the customer experience function end to end and run the Tech Org's operating cadences, including planning cycles, executive business reviews, and org-wide communications. You'll work closely with engineering, product, design, data science, and finance leaders as a trusted executive partner. This team consists of builders, not just coordinators. If you're passionate about building with AI rather than coordinating around it, landing complex programs at company scale, and developing world-class talent while staying hands-on yourself, this is the role for you. This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, or Toronto offices. What You'll Do: Define the multi-year strategy and 12-month roadmap for Product Support Operations, aligning the portfolio with company objectives Lead, develop, and recruit high-performing Technical Program Management and Customer Experience team members, setting a high bar through direct feedback and rigorous performance management Operate as a player-coach: personally design, ship, and maintain agentic workflows and lead high-stakes programs while modeling the builder-TPM standard for the function Own execution of the Tech Org's most complex, company-level programs spanning multiple organizations and external partners, with impact validated by metrics

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are seeking a Verification Lead for our next-generation AI hardware. You’ll guide a top-tier team of Verification Engineers, shaping test strategies to validate functionality and performance of our AI core. This role requires expertise in AI-specific data types, common AI data-movement compute patterns, and on-chip network validation, combined with strong leadership and collaboration skills. This role is hybrid, based out Toronto, ON. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are A Seasoned Verification Leader: An experienced ASIC/SoC lead with proven track record of leading teams through complex tape-outs. An AI Hardware Specialist: An expert in the nuances of high-performance compute, specifically focused on AI/ML architectures and the intricacies of tensor-based operations. A Systems Architect at Heart: A strategist who views verification through a system-level lens, ensuring that hardware, software, and on-chip networks (NoC) harmonize perfectly. A Technical Mentor: A hands-on guide proficient in UVM, SystemVerilog, and cocotb, dedicated to elevating team capabilities and driving rigorous coverage-driven methodologies. What We

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.5M/yr

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We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented US Payroll Specialist to oversee our end-to-end multi-state payroll operations. In this role, you will ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing for all US-based employees while managing internal payroll initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strategic problem-solver with deep expertise in US labor laws, taxation, and ADP+Workday payroll systems. You will: Full-Cycle Payroll Processing: Oversee the accurate and timely processing of multi-state bi-weekly and semi-monthly payrolls for over a thousand exempt and non-exempt employees across most of the USA. Compliance & Taxation: Ensure strict adherence to federal, state, and local tax laws, as well as FLSA regulations. Monitor regulatory changes and update internal systems accordingly. Year-End Processing: Manage year-end payroll activities, including W-2 and W-2c generation, fringe benefit reporting, and annual tax reconciliations. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with HR to ensure accurate data flow for onboarding, offboarding, benefits deductions, and compensation changes. Ability to work with Accounting to ensure accurate general ledger mapping, month-end close procedures, and payroll account reconciliations. System Administration & Optimization: Act as the primary subject matter expert for our payroll system (e.g., Workday, ADP). Identify bottlenecks, recommend process improvements, and lead system upgrades or implementations. Issue Resolution, Continuous Improvement & Auditing: Conduct regular audits of payroll data to identify and resolve discrepancies. Serve as the ultimate point of continuous improvement with AI and other methodologies to ensure Scale’s payroll processes are best in class. Ideally you'd have: 5+ years of payroll experience. Strong organizational skills; the ability to get all priority tasks completed by the end of each day. Confidentiality and integrity. Accuracy under pressure and extreme attention to

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📍 Calgary, Alberta, Canada· Full-time
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About Clutch: We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game? Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning. Named five years in a row to the Globe & Mail’s list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and is now launching in Alberta. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Canaan, Real Ventures, BrandProject, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca . About the role: We’re on a mission to build a world-class team that drives innovation, growth and excellence. As we scale rapidly, we’re looking for a Retail Vehicle Advisor (Field Specialist) to be the face of Clutch at our new Calgary location. As a member of our Calgary launch team, you’ll have the opportunity to help build a new market from the ground up, shape how we operate and grow alongside the business. Since our entire car-selling process is online, you’ll often be the first Clutch employee our customers meet when they sell their vehicle. You’ll have the freedom to go above and beyond to make sure every customer has a great, unique experience in this dynamic customer service and transportation role. What you’ll do: Delivering a uniquely special experience to each and every one of our customers. Work between our retail location and off-site appointments, meeting customers throughout the Calgary area to inspect and pick u

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📍 Calgary, Alberta, Canada· Full-time
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About Clutch: We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game? Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning. Named five years in a row to the Globe & Mail’s list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and is now launching in Alberta. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Canaan, Real Ventures, BrandProject, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca . About the role: We’re on a mission to build a world-class team that drives innovation, growth and excellence. As we scale rapidly, we’re looking for a Customer Experience & Vehicle Intake Coordinator (Field Specialist) to be the face of Clutch at our new Calgary location. As a member of our Calgary launch team, you’ll have the opportunity to help build a new market from the ground up, shape how we operate and grow alongside the business. Since our entire car-selling process is online, you’ll often be the first Clutch employee our customers meet when they sell their vehicle. You’ll have the freedom to go above and beyond to make sure every customer has a great, unique experience in this dynamic customer service and transportation role. What you’ll do: Delivering a uniquely special experience to each and every one of our customers. Work between our retail location and off-site appointments, meeting customers throughout the Calg

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $87K/yr

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Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are You are a strategic advisor and a jurisdictional expert in the Americas (Canada, LATAM, etc.) with a proven track record of helping customers navigate high-stakes complexities. You are consultative, proactive, and passionate about turning nuanced challenges into actionable solutions. You are comfortable solving open-ended, high-risk problems and serving as the final authority on complex global employment and Employer of Record (EOR) practices. You build trust easily, collaborate across teams, and advocate for customers while strategically mitigating risk for the business. As an International Consultant, you are the subject matter expert and trusted advisor for Justworks’ international customers. While the Support Specialist team handles tactical platform navigation and payroll inquiries, you focus on the complex moments—including jurisdictional separation guidance, international benefits strategy, and global regulatory compliance. You own the strategic relationship for customers expanding into diverse international markets, ensuring they maximize the value of Justworks' global offerings while maintaining total compliance. Your Su

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$120K – $185K/yr

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Axsome Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company leading a new era in the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) conditions. We deliver scientific breakthroughs by identifying critical gaps in care and develop differentiated products with a focus on novel mechanisms of action that enable meaningful advancements in patient outcomes. Our industry-leading neuroscience portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for major depressive disorder, agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, and migraine, as well as multiple novel product candidates addressing a broad range of serious neurological and psychiatric conditions that impact over 150 million people in the United States. Together, we are on a mission to solve some of the brain’s biggest problems so patients and their loved ones can flourish. For more information, please visit us at www.axsome.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . About This Role Axsome Therapeutics is currently searching for a field based Long-Term Care (LTC) Specialty Account Manager (SAM) to drive LTC commercial activities for an assigned geography by executing marketing strategies to ensure a successful launch and make a meaningful difference through the execution of commercial activities. SAMs will be responsible for product performance at a territory level and expected to be a disease state expert, product champion and an account specialist. The SAM will provide account management support and exhibit business knowledge of the local landscape to assess key stakeholders plus future trends within the marketplace. Job Responsibilities and Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Drive product adoption in LTC facilities Proficient in both virtual and live customer engagements Effectively call on LTC Care teams, building meaningful relationships across the entire LTC ecosystem: Psychiatrists

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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From $115K/yr

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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 an AV Production Specialist, you will be a critical part of supporting the technical aspects of Figma's internal events. As a member of the broader IT Team, the ideal candidate is an excellent communicator, customer service oriented, highly organized, and can adapt quickly when event schedules or technical needs change on short notice. This role will report directly to the AV Manager. This is a full time role based in our SF Hub. What you'll do at Figma: Coordinate and operate Figma's internal events, including setup, technical checks, and live event support Manage and operate PTZ cameras, microphones, and other AV equipment during live and hybrid events to ensure high production quality Provide real-time technical support to presenters, attendees, and stakeholders during events, with a focus on customer service and professionalism Coordinate with internal stakeholders and our SF Hub Workplace team on event needs during weekly meetings Maintain Event SLO's with AV Manager and collaborate on documentation Troubleshoot issues as they arise in our All Hands space and conference rooms Perform routine conference room sweeps to ensure readiness, cleanliness, and functionality of AV systems Assist in provisioning and configuring new hardware (cameras, microphones, conferencing devices) for office builds and upgrades Maintain an organized inventory of AV equipment and recommend improvements to workflows, documentation, and processes We'd love to hear from you if you have: 2+ years of experience in AV

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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From C$73K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is seeking a highly proficient GEO Content Specialist to execute content-focused Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) strategies for Okta and Auth0. This is a mid-level individual contributor role focused on ensuring content is optimized for visibility and retrieval in the evolving landscape of AI Search/GEO/AEO. The ideal candidate is a reliable self-starter with a strong understanding of content, SEO, and the mechanisms of Large Language Models (LLMs). Core Responsibilities & Execution: Content Optimization: Execute the strategy for structuring and optimizing content to promote content retrievability by LLMs. Develop and refine content blocks to be machine-parsable and aligned with semantic density and emerging AI answer formats. Understand how content must be structured ( schema.org and JSON-LD) for LLM visibility and apply best practices while adhering to brand and quality standards. Identify opportunities by reviewing GEO prompt data, analyzing competitors, and thinking cre

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📍 Seal Beach, Canada
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Configuration Management Specialist (Senior) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Space, Intelligence & Weapons Systems (SI&WS) in Seal Beach California or Colorado Springs, Colorado, is seeking an Configuration Management Specialist (Senior) to support the ESS – MPA Phase 3 Program. Responsibilities of this position include but not limited to oversee and review of software and hardware documentation for internal consistency and adherence to Boeing and program standards, oversee configuration control of work products, generating CM records as evidence of adherence to CM plans and Boeing standards, verifies accuracy of deliveries, both internal and external, support Change Boards, and responds to internal audits and customer queries. This position requires the CM representative to lead the CM activities for the program and also be responsible for maintaining large number of documents. This position is expected to be 100% onsite in Seal Beach CA or Colorado Springs CO This position also requires the person to have an active DOD-Top Secret Clearance . Position Responsibilities: Oversee and review software and hardware documentation for internal consistency and adherence to Boeing and program standards. Oversee configuration control of work products. Generate CM records as evidence of adherence to CM plans and Boeing standards. Verify accuracy of deliverables, both internal and external. Support Change Boards. Respond to internal audits and customer queries. Lead CM activities for the program and maintain a large number of documents. This position is expected to be fully on site in Seal Beach, California or Colorado Springs, CO. <

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer who designs the board and writes the firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications. In this role, you will take connected devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition. The ideal candidate has a passion for building and shipping reliable hardware at scale and thrives in an environment that demands technical depth and high-quality execution across multiple concurrent programs. This is a build-heavy role on a small, senior team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own connected devices end to end, including: Own connected devices from an ambiguous product need through field deployment. Work across the hardware and firmware boundary instead of handing work between specialists. Explore uncertain product ideas through rapid prototypes and experiments. Make consequential tradeoffs on a small, senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior. Key Responsibilities Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture. Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors

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