A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Palantir's defense product vertical builds mission-critical products for the modern warfighter. We provide a complete ecosystem where customers can securely integrate and visualize their data, and build sophisticated, full-fledged programs such as common operating pictures, alert-triaging inboxes, and resource allocation planning tools driven by rich-ML models. Our customers use our defense offering to perform rich analyses that drive core operations within their organizations - these programs are relied upon for daily operations in the command centers and battlefronts of militaries across the world. Backend Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Your day-to-day workflow will vary, adapting to the requirements of our users and the technical challenges that arise. One day, you may find yourself collaborating with other engineers to architect a new system that enables a novel workflow, the next you could be fine-tuning performance to enable low-latency operational o
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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Roblox Vision Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the platform that empowers our community to bring any experience imaginable to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. Why Join Our Rendering Team? Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology. The rendering team at Roblox is at the heart of how millions of creators and players experience our platform. We are a group that is highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of visuals, scalability and performance. We develop our in-house engine and are in control of our entire technology stack, from the rendering pipeline, the lighting techniques, the material system, the voxel terrain to the VFX system and the server infrastructure. Roblox continues to tackle an unprecedented scal
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 Lyft Business organization builds the platform that lets organizations move the people they depend on employees, clients, and customers. From the foundational mechanics of a company funding and provisioning a ride to the tailored workflows that get an employee to a client meeting or home after a late shift, we sweat the small stuff to make Lyft the transportation solution businesses build their programs on. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Lyft Business Team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of complex systems that span the rider experience, the administrator experience, and the enterprise integrations behind them — defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and driving engineering excellence to improve how organizations move their people. Responsibilities: Shape the long-term architecture for systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issues root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of s
About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We're hiring a backend software engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions to a service loved by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We’re looking for Backend Engineers to work on both Product and Product Platform based teams in DoorDash Labs. Product focused Engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Design and implement backend services for IoT that integrates with core DoorDash data, focused on reliability, and future extensibility Create a well documented APIs for other departments to integrate with Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems Introduce tools and best practices to accelerate our development process Design and implement backend services for autonomous delivery system that integrate with core DoorDash data. We're excited about you because you have... B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer Experience with backend for frontend architecture Ability to improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of multiple system resources Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API’s, unit testing, and architectural design Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST) Experience with SQL Experience with either Java or Kotlin Nice to Have Experience with
About the Role: The Machine Learning team at Tubi drives the innovation behind personalized user experiences. With the largest inventory in the industry and hundreds of millions of viewers, we tackle problems in the space of recommendations, search, content understanding, and ads optimization that shape the future of streaming. We are seeking a Director of Machine Learning Engineering and Infrastructure to lead a hybrid team bridging advanced ML engineering with world-class infrastructure design. In this role, you will own the strategic direction and execution for scaling our machine learning capabilities while ensuring our distributed systems and infrastructure can support innovation at massive scale. You will combine technical depth with leadership excellence to guide teams that deliver both foundational ML systems and high-performance distributed services. This is a hybrid role for our Toronto office. What You'll Do: Lead and manage high-performing teams across ML engineering and ML infrastructure, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth. Define and execute the strategic roadmap for ML systems, including recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization. Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable ML pipelines: data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and serving. Architect distributed systems to support ML workloads at scale, ensuring reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Content teams to align on business goals and deliver impactful ML-driven experiences. Support best practices in experimentation, evaluation, and ML system monitoring. Ensure cost efficiency, scalability, and performance in ML infrastructure investments. Your Background: 10+ years of industry experience spanning machine learning engineering and distributed systems. 3+ years of leadership and management experience, with a proven ability to build and lead strong t
$190K – $270K/yr
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 AI team is building cutting-edge solutions that bring the power of AI directly to edge devices while seamlessly integrating with cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to design and develop high-performance, scalable services to support AI workloads across edge and cloud environments. What You Might Do Design, build, and maintain services that power AI-driven applications, ensuring scalability and performance. Develop APIs and microservices that facilitate seamless integration between cloud-based AI models and edge devices. Optimize data pipelines and storage solutions for real-time AI inference and processing. Implement security and privacy best practices for distributed AI systems. Work closely with AI researchers, infrastructure engineers, and frontend developers to deliver end-to-end AI-driven solutions. Build and optimize an agent orchestration runtime that enables tool use, memory management, and multi-step reasoning across LLMs, APIs, and edge-connected systems. Develop robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure system reliability.
C$45 – C$51/hr
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 At HP IQ, our Cloud Services team builds the cloud foundation that supports and extends our innovative hardware products. We develop integrated cloud-based solutions that enhance functionality, improve performance, and deliver seamless user experiences across devices. By working closely with our engineering, machine learning, and infrastructure teams, we ensure every component operates together as a cohesive system. Through this collaboration, we power next-generation AI-driven devices—creating smarter, more connected, and highly reliable products for our users. What You Might Do Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware, AI, and platform engineering to develop, test, and operate integrated cloud services. Contribute to projects involving AI assistants, conference room devices, and more. Work independently and collaboratively to solve complex problems and deliver high-quality software. Communicate effectively across teams to ensure alignment and successful project delivery. Essential Qualifications: Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science or re
$170K – $240K/yr
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
$149K – $240K/yr
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 AI team is building cutting-edge solutions that bring the power of AI directly to edge devices while seamlessly integrating with cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop high-performance, scalable services to support AI workloads across edge and cloud environments. What You Might Do Design, build, and maintain services that power AI-driven applications, ensuring scalability and performance. Develop APIs and microservices that facilitate seamless integration between cloud-based AI models and edge devices. Optimize data pipelines and storage solutions for real-time AI inference and processing. Implement security and privacy best practices for distributed AI systems. Work closely with AI researchers, infrastructure engineers, and frontend developers to deliver end-to-end AI-driven solutions. Build and optimize an agent orchestration runtime that enables tool use, memory management, and multi-step reasoning across LLMs, APIs, and edge-connected systems. Develop robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure system reliabilit
About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! Senior Staff Backend Engineer About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to join our application teams and help set technical direction across multiple domains within engineering. You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers, and partner closely with engineering leadership to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to own complex, multi-domain technical problems and shape product direction beyond a single team. We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the teams are in the EST time zone, but we have a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you'll be doing You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our application stack across multiple domains. You will lead development efforts for our most complex initiatives, the kind that span two or more teams or product areas, and serve as a technical benchmark for system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise-scale reliability, and your work will often set standards that neighboring teams adopt. This remains a hands-on
$165K – $247K/yr
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. At Amplitude, we’re building the operating system for digital products. While we’re known as the leader in product analytics, our Statsig team is redefining how companies learn, iterate, and ship better experiences. Statsig is one of the fastest-growing and most strategic bets at Amplitude. It sits at the intersection of product, data, and decision-making, and we’re looking for a Product Engineer to help take it to the next level. Why this role matters This isn’t a “take tickets and ship code” role. You’ll operate as an owner, shaping both the product and the technical direction of a system used by some of the most sophisticated product teams in the world. You’ll work across the stack, NextJS and Node.js, to build intuitive, high-performance experiences that make experimentation accessible, powerful, and trustworthy. What you’ll do Own critical product surf
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Robinhood Wallet team’s mission is to democratize access to financial services worldwide by leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain! We build secure, intuitive, and decentralized products that enable our users to custody and manage their digital assets. Our team works at the intersection of traditional finance and web3, driving progress in cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. We work closely across multiple engineering and design areas to deliver highly reliable, high-performance systems for customers worldwide. As a Software Developer , you will build and own the backend services, infrastructure, and data systems that support Robinhood Wallet products. You will develop new features and system enhancements to deliver a highly secure and efficient trading experience for cryptocurrencies and tokenized stocks, including perpetual futures, to customers worldwide. In this role, you will design scalable architectures and maintain high-quality codebases. You will also collaborate with other engineering teams to guide key technical decisions and raise our team's engineering standards. This role is based in our Toronto, ON office(s), with in-person attendance e
$180K – $270K/yr
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 Wireless Technology Team works cross-functionally with Electrical Engineering, Software, Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Industrial Design, Program Management, and Operations to develop next-generation wearable and AI-connected products. As a Lead RF Systems & Desense Engineer, you will own the RF system architecture from concept through mass production. You will lead RF integration across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, NFC and emerging wireless technologies while driving RF desense, coexistence, and wireless performance for highly integrated products. What You Might Do Lead RF system architecture and integration for wearable and mobile platforms. Own RF desense investigations and mitigation across the product lifecycle. Define RF specifications, link budgets, validation plans and performance targets. Lead coexistence strategy for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, NFC and other radios. Partner with antenna, EE, FW, ME and silicon vendors to optimize total wireless performance. Perform CST and ADS simula
$100K – $500K/yr
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. As a Datacenter Liquid Cooling Architect, you will define, design, and architect next-generation liquid cooling infrastructure for Tenstorrent’s large-scale AI training and inference clusters. You will partner with systems engineering, mechanical engineering, software, and cross-functional design teams to develop chassis-, rack-, and cluster-scale cooling solutions, including CDU integration, telemetry and control, leak detection, and resilient operating strategies. This role will help shape reliable AI datacenter architectures and deployments for both internal and external customers. This role is on-site, based out of Toronto, Canada, Austin, Texas or Santa Clara, California. 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 datacenter and system thermal design professional with 10+ years of experience architecting cooling infrastructure for complex computing environments. An experienced liquid cooling architect who can design chassis- and rack-scale solutions for large AI training and inference clusters. A systems thinker who understands how mechanical, electrical, software, facility, and systems engineering decisions come toge
From C$129K/yr
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. We are hiring a Business Systems Lead to own the sales technology behind Lyft Ads. As the senior technical owner of the Lyft Ads CRM and commercial systems, you will lead solution design across Salesforce and the connected ad-sales stack and own the architecture for how ad deals move from opportunity through order management and billing. You will work alongside a team of Salesforce engineers and partner closely with Ads Sales, Sales Operations, Ad Operations, Finance, Legal, and the Media engineering teams. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who knows ad-sales operations and can build the systems that run them. Responsibilities: Own the Salesforce architecture for the ad-sales lifecycle, from lead sourcing and opportunity creation through Order Management System (OMS) integration, contract execution, delivery reconciliation, and billing. Identify problems and opportunities across the Ads sales technology stack and shape them into scoped, funded initiatives. Lead requirements with Ads Sales, Sales Operations, Ad Operations, Finance, and Legal partners, and translate them into functional and technical designs. Own the integrations that connect Salesforce to the ad-sales ecosystem, including order management and contract systems, the ad server, and billing, through middleware such as Workato or Boomi. Drive AI best practices across the Sales Technology team, modeling effective usage and ensuring all AI-generated output meets Lyft's standards for quality, security, and performance. Guide the evolution of the Ads CRM platform, including the media-specific data model (agency, advertiser, and brand hierarchies, insertion orders, and flights) and own the Ad Sales Technology roadmap . Lead contract lifecycle management for Ads, including intake automation and Salesforce integration. Remain h
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