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. The Opportunity: Okta Access Gateway (OAG) Enterprises run on a mix of modern cloud services and mission-critical on-premises systems (such as Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, and custom legacy web apps). Okta Access Gateway (OAG) solves the enterprise hybrid cloud challenge by extending Okta’s cloud identity, Adaptive MFA, and Zero Trust security policies to on-premises and legacy applications without requiring custom code changes or traditional VPNs. As the Engineering Manager for Okta Access Gateway in Toronto, you will lead and grow a team of software engineers building the next generation of our hybrid access and gateway infrastructure. You will partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and Quality teams to deliver high-throughput, mission-critical security software deployed across multi-cloud and enterprise datacenters globally. What You’ll Do People Leadership & Team Growth Lead, mentor, and empower an engineering team, fostering an inclusive, high-performance, and psychologically safe engineering culture. Drive career progression, goal setting, regular 1:1s, and continuous feedback to help engineers grow their technical and leadership skills. Attract, interview, and hire diverse engineering talent to scale Okta’s engineering presence in Toronto. Delivery & Operational Excellence Own the end-to-end execution and delivery of key product roadmap initiatives, balancing feature velocity, technical debt, and softwar
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From C$1.8M/yr
About the Role: Tubi is one of the largest free streaming platforms in the US, serving a large-scale streaming audience across Web, iOS, Android, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and game consoles. Quality at this scale isn't a checkbox — it's a competitive advantage. We're looking for an Automation Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for building and operating Tubi's multi-platform test automation infrastructure. You will own the strategy, tooling, and execution quality across our client surfaces — from video playback and ad delivery to content discovery and onboarding. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can set direction, influence cross-functional roadmaps, and stay close enough to the code to guide architecture, review critical implementation decisions, and unblock complex technical issues. You will build a team that ships reliable automation at speed — and you will help the team move toward AI-native automation practices: fluent in AI tooling, proactive about applying it, and disciplined about using it responsibly. This is a hybrid role based out of either our San Francisco or Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to either location at least 2 days a week. What You'll Do: Test Strategy & Quality Planning Define and own Tubi's multi-platform automation strategy — covering Web, iOS, Android, CTV (Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Smart TVs, game consoles), and API layers. Establish testing standards, coverage targets, and quality gate policies across the CI/CD pipeline to protect release confidence and production reliability. Design specialized test strategies for business-critical scenarios: video playback (HLS/DASH), ad insertion, content recommendation surfaces, and user authentication flows. Use AI-assisted analysis (e.g., failure pattern clustering, test gap detection) to continuously improve test strategy based on real production signal and defect trends — not gut instinct. Automation Framework & Infrastructure Lead the
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Director of Engineering, Physical AI Role Overview The Director of Engineering will report to the General Manager of Physical AI, and will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary engineering organization. In this senior leadership role, you will own the execution of the Physical AI Data Engine — the platform powering the next generation of Physical AI/Embodied AI. You will collaborate closely with Operations and GTM to guide product direction and help solve the data bottleneck that stands between today's robotics research and real-world deployment. This role requires significant ownership in a fast-paced environment and you will motivate internal teams to set the pace for business growth. Travel will come into play. Key Responsibilities: Set and drive the technical vision across data collection infrastructure, teleoperation systems, ML training pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, annotation tooling, and research Lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization—spanning engineering managers, software engineers, ML engineers, and ML research scientists—while designing the organizational structure, talent strategy, and culture required to scale rapidly without compromising on quality or strategic alignment Maintain exceptional technical and operational excellence by deeply understanding team deliverables, asking incisive questions, identifying slipping standards early, and knowing precisely when to step in Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Operations, and GTM on platform architecture, release processes, and shared priorities Collaborate with researchers and clients to architect and deliver scalable, production-grade data infrastructure tailored for complex robotics workloads Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical field 8+ years of engineering experience in fast-paced environments, including 4+ years direct people management demonstrated history of recruiting, mentorin
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 are hiring a Firmware Validation & Integration Engineer for our autonomy software team. This is a critical role to build robust and scalable validation for our firmware and systems to ensure reliability at every level. In this role, you will work with our electrical, firmware, and autonomy engineers to build the infrastructure and test suites required to validate the system. This includes designing and implementing our Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation environments and automation frameworks from the ground up. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team. Design and build Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems to simulate vehicle dynamics and sensor data for comprehensive firmware and system-level validation. Develop automated test infrastructure and software tools to exercise multiple embedded platforms throughout our robot system. Interface many layers of our control system including vehicle controls, power management, and motion control to ensure seamless system integration. Implement low-level test sequences and validation algorithms to safely stress-test vehicle components such as batteries, drive-train, and thermal management devices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify edge cases and hardware-software corner cases that impact vehicle safety and performance. We’re excited about you because… BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field. 5+ years of experience in validati
Who we are About Privy Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. We build simple, flexible application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools that help developers create products on crypto infrastructure. Privy provides the abstraction and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across blockchain networks, third-party providers, and Stripe products such as Treasury and Link. We solve complex technical problems while using Stripe’s global reach to support customers including Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo. Our technology powers experiences for both mainstream users and crypto-native audiences. Learn more: [Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone ] About the team The Account Executive, Product team connects Privy’s technology with companies building new products across fintech and crypto. The team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market partners to understand prospective customers’ needs, shape technical and commercial solutions, and turn market insights into product and sales strategy. Its focus includes priority segments such as neobanking, payments, and brokerages. What you’ll do As an Enterprise Account Executive you’ll own complex enterprise sales cycles and help expand Privy’s work with companies across fintech and crypto. You’ll build relationships with senior commercial and technical stakeholders, develop new opportunities, and help refine Privy’s enterprise sales approach. You’ll also contribute to Privy’s global growth strategy and represent the company at industry events. Responsibilities Partner with the Head of Go-to-Market (GTM) to build and close a strong pipeline of enterprise prospects. Develop and test outbound campaigns based on market and customer feedback. Manage a pipeline across multiple ideal customer profiles. Build deep expertise in Privy’s products and lead discovery calls with fintech prospects to understand their needs and explain Privy’s value. Own
Who we are About Privy Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. We build simple, flexible application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools that help developers create products on crypto infrastructure. Privy provides the abstraction and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across blockchain networks, third-party providers, and Stripe products such as Treasury and Link. We solve complex technical problems while using Stripe’s global reach to support customers including Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo. Our technology powers experiences for both mainstream users and crypto-native audiences. Learn more: [Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone ] About the team The Account Executive, Product team connects Privy’s technology with companies building new products across fintech and crypto. The team works closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market partners to understand prospective customers’ needs, shape technical and commercial solutions, and turn market insights into product and sales strategy. Its focus includes priority segments such as neobanking, payments, and brokerages. What you’ll do As an Enterprise Account Executive you’ll own complex enterprise sales cycles and help expand Privy’s work with companies across fintech and crypto. You’ll build relationships with senior commercial and technical stakeholders, develop new opportunities, and help refine Privy’s enterprise sales approach. You’ll also contribute to Privy’s global growth strategy and represent the company at industry events. Responsibilities Partner with the Head of Go-to-Market (GTM) to build and close a strong pipeline of enterprise prospects. Develop and test outbound campaigns based on market and customer feedback. Manage a pipeline across multiple ideal customer profiles. Build deep expertise in Privy’s products and lead discovery calls with fintech prospects to understand their needs and explain Privy’s value. Own
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 highly skilled Staff Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to transformative projects in video personalization. In this role, you will design and implement advanced algorithms and systems to improve our personalization strategy. As a senior technical expert, you will tackle complex problems in machine learning at scale, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to develop and optimize machine learning-driven solutions. This is a hybrid role in our Toronto office. What You'll Do: Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced recommendation systems and algorithms for a global audience Conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring that models are optimized for both performance and scalability across multiple regions and product areas Build and deploy high-impact robust ML pipelines, including data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, and deployment Continuously monitor, evaluate, and optimize the performance of deployed models, ensuring they meet business goals and provide high-quality user experiences. Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to align on product requirements, set expectations, and deliver machine learning-driven solutions that improve user engagement Your Background: 8+ years of industry experience building production Machine Learning systems MSc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field Experience with deep learning technologies for recommendation systems, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar frameworks Proficiency in building and deploying full-stack machine le
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 VP / Director of Machine Learning Engineering to lead and build a high-performing team while staying close to the technical work. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will set the strategic direction for our recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization systems, including recommendation foundation modeling, and you will stay in the algorithms and the code, conducting deep dives into modeling components and guiding the hardest technical decisions yourself. You will tackle complex machine learning problems at scale and partner closely with cross-functional teams to ship solutions that measurably improve how hundreds of millions of viewers experience Tubi. What You’ll Do Lead, build, and grow a high-performing ML engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and rapid iteration. Define and drive the ML strategy and long-term technical roadmap for recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization, including recommendation foundation modeling, identifying opportunities for ML to shape Tubi’s broader product and business strategy. Stay hands-on: conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring models are optimized for both performance and scalability across regions and product areas. Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced recommendation systems and algorithms, contributing directly to the most challenging technical problems. Build and deploy robust, full-stack ML pipelines: data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, deployment, and serving. Continuously monitor, evaluate, and optimize the performance of deployed models, ensuring
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
From $115K/yr
Small Girls PR is looking for an Experiential Production Director with 7–9 years of experience leading multichannel projects across in-person activations and digital experiences. This includes developing cohesive experiential strategies, managing client relationships, concepting standout experiences that drive social conversation and press coverage, overseeing technical execution, managing complex timelines and large budgets, and developing talented producers. Experience working with clients / brands within fashion and/or beauty is highly valued for this role. This role will serve as the senior day-to-day lead across experiential accounts and projects, connecting creative ideas and production plans to clients’ broader brand and business objectives. The Experiential Production Director will work closely with senior leadership, keeping them informed of campaign progress, strategic or budgetary shifts, client needs, team performance, and potential risks. The right candidate knows how to lead a campaign from ideation through post-production and can project manage in their sleep. They are also prepared to dive into the details, knowing that no task is too small in the world of events. This role will work with a wide range of creative and innovative brands across beauty and fashion, food and beverage, wellness, consumer technology, and more. Ideally this candidate has agency experience and is adept at client interface, in addition to execution. There is no one-size-fits-all for an SGPR client, which means your career will be enriched with meaningful and diversified experience. We’ve busted beauty myths with OLAY in Bryant Park, spotlighted Violife with a cheeky Election Day campaign, and reintroduced a Jack in the Box product as a “return from the grave” with a Halloween cemetery screening. From events and mailers to brand partnerships and hotlines, if the team can dream up an idea for audiences to see, do, or touch, our experiential team can produce it. Note: This role i
From $130K/yr
About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! About the Team Marketing at Snorkel is growing rapidly and anchored by high-ownership operators who lead independently, align cross-functionally, and consistently deliver outsized results. We partner across Sales, Product, Research, and the executive team to translate complex AI and data value into differentiated positioning, integrated programs, and field-ready enablement that accelerates growth. The culture is high standards, high autonomy, and high collaboration. About the Role Reporting to the Sr. Director of Product Marketing, the Product Marketing Manager, Frontier Labs will own the GTM execution for our frontier lab business. You will partner closely with Research, FDE, and frontier-facing sales teams to translate technical work into research-credible positioning, repeatable sales plays, and high-quality GTM programs that resonate with research and procurement leaders inside frontier labs. You will keep the frontier asset library (battlecards, technical one-pagers, decks, benchmark and eval narratives) sharp against a fast-moving market, and bring competitive and customer insight into every motion. This is a hands-on role for a product marketer who wants
From C$240K/yr
Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do You will lead the engineering team responsible for Brex’s GTM Engineering surfaces, enabling our growth engine across Marketing, Sales, and self-serve funnels. This role focuses on building and optimizing our marketing website (Brex.com), GTM applications, top-of-funnel experiences, and AI-powered systems that increase efficiency, reduce CAC, and improve sales and marketing effectiveness. Where you’ll work This role will be based in our Vancouver office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and conn
From C$240K/yr
Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do You will lead an engineering team focused on building the systems and product experiences that power customer activation at Brex, including onboarding, account setup, verifications, and integrations workflows that help customers realize value quickly. This role requires strategic thinking, operational excellence, technical leadership, and a deep passion for delivering frictionless, AI-enhanced customer journeys. The ideal candidate is an engineering leader with experience scaling user-facing onboarding system
From C$250K/yr
Overview We are seeking a hands-on Director of AI Software Engineering to lead and scale AI engineering efforts supporting multiple business units across Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). This role sits at the intersection of product delivery, platform evolution, and applied AI—driving real-world impact across core workflows. This is not a pure management role. We are looking for a builder who leads from the front, someone who has recently written production code, shipped systems end-to-end, and can operate comfortably in ambiguity while aligning teams and stakeholders. What You’ll Do Lead AI Engineering Across GRC Own delivery of AI-powered capabilities embedded directly into business unit workflows (e.g., risk analysis, compliance automation, reporting, due diligence) Partner with product, data, and platform teams to translate business problems into scalable AI systems Stay Hands-On Contribute to architecture, code reviews, and critical path implementation Prototype and validate new approaches (LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, classification pipelines, etc.) Set engineering standards for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency Build and Scale Teams Lead and mentor a high-performing team of AI/ML and software engineers Drive hiring, coaching, and career development Establish a culture of ownership, speed, and technical excellence Drive Execution Deliver production-grade systems—not experiments Balance speed with rigor (security, privacy, compliance) Operate across multiple concurrent initiatives with clear prioritization Communicate and Influence Act as a bridge between engineering and business stakeholders Clearly articulate trade-offs, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership Align cross-functional teams around shared goals and timelines What We’re Looking For Proven Builder 10+ years in software engineering, with recent hands-on coding experience Demonstrated track record of shipping production systems at scale Experience with modern
From $252K/yr
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 Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager 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, lead a team that architects specific AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a Management role that combines deep engineering and AI expertise, leading a team, and working on customer-facing problems. 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 Engineeri
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