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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! We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Developer Tools team at Figma. This team is building solutions targeting mainly frontend and full stack developers, helping them bring products from idea to production faster than ever. As a manager on the Developer tools team you will lead teams working across Dev Mode, MCP, Code Connect, and more. You’ll also be responsible for helping define the future of our developer offering, very likely helping incubate and lead new product development. Developer tools is a major initiative at Figma and is spearheaded from the London office. You’ll be working on one of the most exciting areas within Figma incorporating design thinking, the latest AI developments, and open source developer tooling. This is a full time role that can be held from our London hub or remotely in the UK. What you’ll do at Figma: Manage and support a team of product engineers focused on building and expanding Figma’s developer offerings, including Dev Mode, MCP, Code Connect, and more Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to coordinate work across product, design, engineering, and other functions Define strategy & roadmap for your team and execute on that roadmap with a high degree of autonomy, velocity, and craftsmanship Provide hands-on technical leadership to your teams and others that collaborate with your teams to ensure a cohesive product experience and the right technical abstractions Recruit, mentor, and retain high performing engineers (and help with o

About the Team The People Technology team builds and operates the systems that support how OpenAI hires, develops, and supports its people. The team brings together People Systems and People Innovation Labs, a product engineering group focused on rethinking how we find and retain exceptional talent and help employees do their best work. People Systems owns the company’s core people-technology ecosystem, including platforms such as Workday and Ashby. People Innovation Labs builds new employee and People Team experiences on top of that foundation, including OpenHouse, our internal employee hub, and AI-powered products and automations. Together, we are working toward a model in which our enterprise systems provide reliable data, controls, and core business logic, while employees and managers can complete more of their work through simple, integrated, and AI-native experiences. About the Role We are looking for a People Systems Lead to manage the People Systems team and shape how our core systems evolve. You will be responsible for the reliability and effectiveness of our current environment while helping us move beyond the constraints of traditional enterprise software. This includes stabilizing and improving platforms such as Workday and Ashby, designing the integrations that connect them to the broader technology ecosystem, and partnering with People Innovation Labs to surface workflows through OpenHouse, Slack, and AI-powered experiences. This role requires someone who is comfortable moving between strategy, technical design, and team leadership. You should understand People systems deeply, be able to work through integration and architecture decisions with engineers, and translate complex organizational needs into scalable solutions. You will also manage vendor relationships, develop the People Systems team, and drive alignment across People, Engineering, Finance, Security, Legal, and other partners. This role could be a fit for someone who has grown up in People S

About the team Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework , and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. About the role The stakes of securing OpenAI increases as our internal coding and research becomes increasingly driven by autonomous AI agents. Compromising these agents could allow a cyber threat actor to compromise many other parts of the company. In this role, you would lead Preparedness work defending the security of our internal AI agents against insiders, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), or powerful AI agents. We’re looking for a strong hands-on technical executor with experience working directly with advanced cyber threat actors. In this role, you will: Develop and maintain threat models via which advanced attackers could compromise our coding assistants and automated security systems. Identify security investments that are especially critical to make in advance; for example, prioritizing by implementation lead-times, costs, and benefit. Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Research, Legal, and Preparedness to align on implementation plans and tradeoffs. Lead technical execution directly when needed, including prototyping controls, writing and reviewing software, and coordinating engineers across teams. Work with penetration testers to close gaps in defenses. You might thrive in this role if you: Are an exceptional hands-on technical executor. Have worked with advanced

Electronics Test and Evaluation Lab Technician (Senior or Lead) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) is looking for a Senior or Lead Electronics Test and Evaluation Lab Technician (Level 4 or 5) to join our team at the Starfire Optical Range on Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The role supports the Air Force Research Lab in their advancement of Space Domain Awareness capabilities using ground-based telescopes. Starfire Optical Range is a world class research facility with recognized achievements in adaptive optics, enabled by the quality, enthusiasm, and dedication of our entire team. Our team consists of engineers and technicians in all disciplines required to plan, design, integrate, and test complex optical, electronic, laser systems to achieve research objectives. Position Responsibilities: Plans, conducts and documents complex tests on products, systems, components, materials, and manufacturing processes and technologies. Designs, fabricates, builds and analyzes test systems, materials, components, software and methodologies. Coordinates test requirements, determines test methods and capabilities. Conducts system test preparations by guiding system integration, fabrication, modification, setup, checkout and teardown. Performs test article configuration control. Conducts complex tests, analyzes data and documents results; participates in test readiness reviews. Identifies and resolves test anomalies. Troubleshoots and resolves complex laboratory and test-related problems. Coordinates test laboratory activities, maintenance and repairs, and

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Software Engineering As part of an exciting, fast paced environment developing authentication and security solutions in the e-commerce space, this position will provide technical expertise within the development lifecycle for new products and services. • Are you interested in re-defining how MasterCard does online authentication today? • Have you ever brought a product to market on a global scale? • Are you motivated to stay on cutting edge of technology? This position manages Software Engineering teams that partner with product owners, architecture, development, and operations teams to continue evolving the Mastercard Authentication platform. The role is accountable for people leadership, resourcing, delivery planning, project schedules, and vendor relationships. Role • Lead major authentication initiatives by setting technical direction, guiding architecture decisions, and ensuring engineering teams deliver secure, scalable solutions. • Partner with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to shape authentication strategy, roadmaps, and solution architectures for new and existing business opportunities. • Mentor engineers and engineering leads by providing technical guidance, coaching, and feedback that strengthen team capability and delivery outcomes. • Lead and mana

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! The Interaction Design team is responsible for creating and maintaining the runtime APIs that support rich, high fidelity interactions and animations across our product suite. Our team’s work is critical to ensuring products like Prototyping, Slides, and Smart Animate have the platform needed to empower customers to bring their designs to life in new and exciting ways. The team is also responsible for building new interaction and animation-based features. In this role, you’ll lead the team that enables engineers at Figma to easily develop the next generation of interactive Figma features and products. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you'll do at Figma: Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to improve the platform, features, and runtimes supporting interactive and animated experiences in Figma products like Prototyping and Slides Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers, including staff level engineers Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of solving some of the most complex technical challenges at Figma Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community Figma is committed to building an inclusi

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! The Payload team is building the future of content infrastructure at Figma. Payload is Figma’s open-source CMS and application framework, enabling developers and organizations to create websites, digital products, internal tools, asset management systems, and content-driven experiences at scale. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead the engineering team responsible for Payload’s evolution as both a thriving open-source platform and a foundational part of Figma’s future. You'll work alongside Payload’s founders and core contributors to scale the team, grow the community, and guide technical investments that strengthen Payload’s position as a leading content platform. You'll help engineers do their best work while partnering across product, design, go-to-market teams, enterprise customers, and the open-source ecosystem to shape the roadmap. Success in this role means balancing the needs of a passionate developer community with opportunities to create seamless integrations and workflows across Figma’s products, unlocking entirely new ways for teams to design, build, and manage digital experiences. If you're excited about open source, developer tools, platform strategy, and building high-performing teams, this role offers the opportunity to influence both a fast-growing product and the future of how content and design come together. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you’ll do at Figma: Lead the engineering team behind all

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! You will be the first engineering manager for the Growth Platform, and you’ll help shape its vision, starting with the Communications capability. The platform will grow as we prove value. You’ll partner with leadership to define the platform’s direction, assess existing technology, identify the next set of investments, and help evolve the vision through learning gained from shipping, customers, and overall ecosystem. While aiming for the sky in terms of longer term vision, you will deliver incremental value every sprint by being grounded in today's reality. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you’ll do at Figma: Build and lead the team: Hire the initial engineers for the Growth Platform’s first team. Set the team’s culture, operating rhythm, and engineering standards. Mentor engineers, create career growth opportunities, and help scale the organization as scope expands Build capabilities that unlock new experiments: This isn’t about building an experimentation platform—it’s about building the product capabilities (personalized messaging, self-service publishing, cross-system integrations) that make it dramatically easier for teams across Figma to run growth experiments without engineering bottlenecks Leverage AI to scale quality and speed: Explore and integrate AI-driven approaches—for brand consistency checks, visual quality validation, copy generation, and experiment governance—that allow experiment volume to grow

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Role We are looking for an experienced leader to be our Head of AV HW Mechanical Design and lead our world class team of engineers. In this role you will be responsible for the research, design, and delivery of our autonomous hardware solutions that enable Nuro’s autonomous driving systems. This work spans electronics packaging, sensor packaging, vehicle integrations, and sensor weather mitigation, and success requires the ability to manage the full product lifecycle, key partnerships with electrical and software engineering counterparts, and long term R&D efforts. Leading this team will also require strong organizational and communications skills. You will be responsible for managing a large engineering team working across multiple product lines, driving a culture of accountability and technical rigor, and developing the people and processes of the team. About the Work Define and own the mechanical design efforts across Nu

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery, and we’re building the operating system for the grocery industry so people can access the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Catalog Enrichment team. This team builds the AI-native platform and pipelines that create, enrich, and maintain product attributes across a catalog of tens of millions of products from more than 100,000 retailer locations. Catalog data is the foundation of our marketplace: when attributes are complete and accurate, search returns the right results, recommendations feel personal, and advertisers can target with confidence. In this role, you’ll lead a team of engineers building systems that blend large language models, classical inference, workflow orchestration, and human review into configurable pipeli

OUR MISSION At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes. ABOUT US Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower you to orchestrate, manage and monitor your workflows across any application, service or server — in the cloud or on premises — with confidence and control. Redwood’s global team of automation experts and customer success engineers provide solutions and world-class support designed to give you the freedom and time to imagine and define your future. Get out of the weeds and see the forest, with Redwood Software. CORE VALUES One Team. One Redwood Make Your Own Weather Obsess over Customer Success Work the Problem Be Curious Own the Outcome Respect Each Other YOUR IMPACT The L1 Support Team Leader is an experienced people leader responsible for managing a team of L1 Support Representatives, ensuring operational excellence, driving team performance, and improving processes. This role handles complex leadership scenarios, contributes heavily to quality, training, and continuous improvement efforts, and acts as a key operational anchor for the L1 organization. Regularly addresses complex staffing, performance, customer escalation, and operational challenges with minimum guidance. Influences improvements beyond the immediate team and contributes meaningfully to Support-wide initiatives. Lead, coach, and develop a full team of L1 Support Representatives, including performance management. Conduct structured 1:1s, team meetings, and continuous coaching to improve overall team capability. Manage operational KPIs (SLA, CSAT, backlog, resolution speed, etc) and create action plans to maintain or improve performance.

OUR MISSION At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes. ABOUT US Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower you to orchestrate, manage and monitor your workflows across any application, service or server — in the cloud or on premises — with confidence and control. Redwood’s global team of automation experts and customer success engineers provide solutions and world-class support designed to give you the freedom and time to imagine and define your future. Get out of the weeds and see the forest, with Redwood Software. CORE VALUES One Team. One Redwood Make Your Own Weather Obsess over Customer Success Work the Problem Be Curious Own the Outcome Respect Each Other YOUR IMPACT As a HR Manager for our Canada Center of Excellence, you will be the core People Lead for our growing Engineering team in Canada, building a vibrant, high-performing culture from the ground up. You will serve as a strategic HR partner with deep expertise in employee relations, talent development, leadership coaching, and Canadian employment standards. Using people data, AI, and automation, you will help leaders make informed talent decisions, streamline People practices, and connect local execution with Redwood’s global talent strategy. Partner closely with R&D and Engineering leaders to align talent strategies with technical roadmaps, product goals, and organizational priorities. Coach technical managers, from first-time managers through VPs, on difficult conversations, performance management, team dynamics, and building high-performing technical teams. Champion a culture of “AI First,” helping Engineering leaders use automated tools and digital enablement to improve team workflows. Us

Opportunity Overview: We’re looking for a Manager, Platform Engineering that can lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on Developer Experience, DevOps, SRE, and Quality. You will own the systems and processes that enable teams to build, test, release, and operate software with high velocity and reliability, driving engineering efficiency and operational excellence across the organization. What you’ll do: Lead a fast-paced, autonomous team of engineers focused on platform engineering, developer experience, DevOps, SRE, and quality engineering Own and drive the internal developer platform strategy and roadmap, improving how engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate services Create transparency into engineering efficiency and system health through meaningful metrics across delivery, reliability, and quality Enable teams to move faster by improving CI CD pipelines, environments, tooling, and overall developer workflows Provide technical leadership across platform, infrastructure, and reliability, helping teams build scalable and resilient systems Ensure strong engineering practices across release processes, testing, quality, reliability, and security Define and enforce release guardrails, validation standards, and rollback mechanisms to improve production safety Improve environment stability and consistency across development, QA, and pre production environments Drive test strategy and automation maturity to improve overall product quality and confidence in releases Define and implement observability, monitoring, and alerting standards across systems Improve incident detection, response, and RCA practices, ensuring learnings translate into platform and system improvements Drive cloud infrastructure best practices across AWS, containers, and infrastructure as code Foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement within the team Provide innovative solutions for attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent I

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. With Roblox Ads business growing at a rapid rate, we are building large scale ads machine learning infrastructure to deliver effective performance ads to our users, and more business values to our advertisers. We’re looking for an EM to lead a team of exceptional ML infrastructure engineers, build scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure that powers ML systems across our organization. You’ll operate at the scales of hundreds of billions of engagements, and redefine how we deliver performance ads to hundreds of millions of users. You Will: Lead strategic planning and roadmap execution of scalable production-ready ML systems including model training, data pipelines, feature engineering and model inference. Own the architecture, establish engineering best practices of scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of ML infrastructure (e.g., training, serving, feature). Work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to design, implement, and operate robust ML platforms that accelerate model development and deployment. Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML infrastructure engineers. You Have: 5+ years of experienc

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta's App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta. As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead and grow the App Primitives team, owning hiring, team health, delivery, and the development of senior engineers and technical leads Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's shared product primitives: comments infrastructure, notifications platform, event log, feature flag system (Statsig), and task management Define and steward the interface model between App Primitives systems and product teams, ensuring product teams can build on top of shared infrastructure quickly and safely, without owning the underlying systems themselves Partner closely with product engineering leaders across Vanta to surface developer ne