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Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. Principal Wireless Protocol Architect/Engineer We are building a small team of versatile and enthusiastic leaders to create new products for the PlayStation community. Our team recently delivered the new PlayStation Link, PULSE Explore and PULSE Elite products, recently announced the FlexStrike and PULSE Elevate products, and are hard at work on what comes next. We need an experienced and innovative firmware engineer to help build and support our new products and features. In this role, you will be the technical point of accountability for wireless across accessories: hardware, platform software, audio, security, and product all will route protocol questions to you. You will represent the protocol and the implementation to silicon and ODM partners, evaluate combo-SoC roadmaps, drive vendor firmware defects to resolution, and design so that a supplier change is a port, not a rewrite. You will write the technical strategy documents that let a Director and a VP make an informed decision. And, grow the technical depth by being the leader that mentors senior engineers toward staff and principal, and raise the design-review bar for the whole org. Come and play with us! Responsibilities In this role, you will lead firmware development for high profile product deve

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for an Enterprise AV & Live Production Engineer to join our team. This is a Santa Clara, CA hybrid-based role, reporting to the Senior Director IT Operations, Digital Employee Experience in the IT Digital Employee Experience department. The Enterprise AV & Live Production Engineer provides end-to-end technical leadership for high-visibility corporate broadcasts, including executive broadcasts, earnings releases, and studio sessions. This role drives the operational readiness and maintenance of global meeting spaces while collaborating with IT, Marketing, and Facilities partners to maintain seamless hybrid collaboration and zero-downtime execution. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Act as the hands-on technical owner for corporate conference rooms and collaborative spaces globally, maintaining high uptime, hardware readiness, and optimal AV fidelity through regular maintenance and rapid tr

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. As s Principal Engineer/MTS (Member of Technical Staff), you will be a part of revolutionary Next Generation NAND research & development Dry Etch team driving critical modules listed below. The position promises ample opportunities for innovation, collaboration and testing a new dimension and scaling with Next Generation NAND . You will work directly with process integration and other process areas such as Wet Etch, CVD, Diffusion, Metals, Lithography & CMP. You will work on state of the art and best in class dry etch chambers & own the process roadmap to meet program and yield goals. Your responsibilities include, but not limited to: Leading Dry Etch technology and critical module development Be a Dry Etch Area expert. Develop/innovate dry etch processes to meet structural and electrical specifications Collaborate with hardware teams to build equipment roadmap for the current and next generation NAND products. Demonstrate authority on dry etch technology fundamentals and have a mechanistic understanding of process parameters impact. Collaborate and lead cross functional teams to solve complex structural problems. Present process and technology roadmaps for current and future technology nodes. Stay

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. As a Staff/Principal Engineer, you will be a part of groundbreaking next generation NAND research & development dry etch team driving critical modules listed below. The position promises ample opportunities for innovation, collaboration and testing a new dimension and scaling with next generation NAND . You will work directly with process integration and other process areas such as Wet etch, CVD, Diffusion, Metals, Lithography & Dry Etch. You will be involved with innovative and outstanding dry etch chambers & own the process roadmap to meet program and yield goals. Your responsibilities include, but not limited to: Main Responsibilities: As a CMP Process Development Engineer, you will develop and optimize chemical mechanical planarization procedures. These procedures aim to improve product quality and reliability for the next generation of Micron's memory parts. Focus on understanding and improving the process margins required for meeting the mature yield goal for 3D NAND parts Advanced 3D NAND CMP process development will include performing fundamental research, consumables development, and hardware evaluation, as well as testing processes for novel applications Initiate and manage experiments to widen process margins as well

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations: San Francisco, NYC, or Austin, or Remote, US About the role Cloudflare is looking for a principal individual contributor to drive data strategy and execution for the Revenue Operations team! This is a great role for an experienced Sales Operations professional who is looking for a hands-on role that can shape and build the infrastructure that will drive operational scale and solve real problems that help drive impact. You are right

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. Roblox's Object Store team is building the in-house, multi-tenant object storage platform that underpins every large-object workload at Roblox — assets, media, analytics, backups, and machine learning datasets — at exabyte scale, trillions of objects, and terabytes per second of throughput. We build and run it ourselves on bare metal in our own data centers, replacing cloud object storage with a platform we control end to end — down to the hardware. As a principal engineer on the Object Store team, you will shape the architecture, build and launch the capabilities that keep this platform durable, fast, and efficient at global scale, and set the technical direction for where it goes next. You will report to the Engineering Manager for Storage. You will: Design and build the object store — S3-compatible gateway, metadata and indexing, data placement and tiering, multi-tenancy and isolation. Own the technical strategy : multi-year architecture, build-vs-buy calls, and the migration off cloud object storage. Evolve the control plane for elastic scaling, autonomous healing, self-service provisioning, and zero-downtime tenant moves. Run the bare-metal fleet at scale — cluster lifecycle, upgrades,

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Principal Software Engineer — Performance Engineering (Cloud Infrastructure) Engineering Location: Menlo Park About the Team The Capacity, Performance & Efficiency team sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, workload behavior, performance measurement, and business economics. We drive Snowflake’s cloud infrastructure adoption and evolution strategy, price/performance decisions, platform footprint expansion amidst capacity constraints, and strategic alignment with cloud service provider (CSP) technical roadmaps. We're looking for a Principal Performance Engineer to drive Snowflake's cloud infrastructure performance strategy. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role for someone who can go deep on hardware internals (CPU microarchitecture, memory bandwidth, I/O behavior) while also translating that technical depth into pricing, capacity, and roadmap decisions across Snowflake. You will drive the evaluation of new hardware generations across all major cloud providers, build the benchmarking and modeling infrastructure that turns raw performance data into pricing and rollout decisions, and represent Snowflake in technical discussions with CSPs and silicon partners. You'll help grow performance engineering as a discipline across the company — mentoring engineers, b

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. Key Responsibilities Validation Execution Lead end‑to‑end Validation Run execution in a high‑pressure, fast‑paced environment , ensuring on‑schedule starts/completions , risk‑aware re‑plans , and efficient material usage . Own time‑bound data crunching pipelines (automated log parsing, metrics aggregation, anomaly ranking) and deliver decision‑ready summary reports and sightings by agreed Cycle Time. Guarantee coverage completeness across Validation flows; drive Hot/Cold corners , screen , timing boundary coverage, and evidence‑backed closure . Platform Leadership Develop and debug test programs on ATEs like Advantest and In-house ATE; enforce code quality, reviews, and release discipline. Align hardware configs ( handler, socket, loadboard, probe card ) to test intent and throughput targets. Advanced Analysis, Verilog Simulation & Automation Perform power/thermal characterization ; correlate IDD/thermal data with performance/reliability; author recommendations for content changes and silicon fixes. Architect and execute Verilog simulations (bench cre

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Summary Micron's Firmware & Product Test (FPT) team is hiring a Principal Test Development Engineer to lead front-end firmware validation for enterprise SSDs. In this role, you'll own verification strategy for NVMe front-end features, drive automation framework development, and serve as a technical authority for failure analysis and debug methodologies. You'll leverage AI-enabled tools and workflows to accelerate validation efficiency. You'll mentor engineers, define test coverage standards, and collaborate with firmware architects to influence testability decisions. The FPT team builds verification plans in Python, enforces NVMe and security protocol compliance, and executes white-box, grey-box, and black-box testing across simulation, FPGA, and prototype hardware environments. Responsibilities Lead design and execution of firmware verification strategies for NVMe front-end features (SMART, Trim, Get Log Page, OCP, Identify, Namespace Management) across multiple product lines. Own end-to-end test development lifecycle — from spec analysis and test planning through automation, execution, and coverage closure. Drive root-cause analysis for critical field and regression failures; establish systematic debug methodologies using coyote logs, protocol analyzers, and firmware traces. Architect and maintain scalable test automation frameworks that become organizational standards for firmware quality. Lead failure analysis efforts, correla

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. As a Principal Diffusion Process Development Engineer, you will act as a technical leader accountable for FEOL diffusion, annealing, and gate oxidation process advancement for advanced DRAM devices! This position emphasizes gate dielectric scaling, process reliability, and manufacturing preparedness. The ideal candidate blends extensive expertise in diffusion processes, oxidation principles, and device physics with practical experience transitioning technologies from development to production. You will collaborate closely with groups dedicated to process development, device engineering, equipment, and manufacturing to support future technology nodes. This role requires work with AI for productivity. Key Responsibilities Lead the progress of FEOL diffusion, thermal treatment, and gate oxidation operations in advanced DRAM technology. Develop and scale ultra-thin gate dielectrics, balancing electrical performance, reliability, variability, and manufacturability. Drive process development from concept through integration, pilot qualification, and manufacturing transfer. Evaluate, qualify, and optimize diffusion and oxidation equipment platforms and reactor builds. Define and monitor manufacturing metrics, including statistical process control, process capability, defectivity, and variability. Interpret electrical, physical, and materials characterization data to guide development decisions. Partner with external suppliers to develop hardware and processes aligned with future technology

What you’ll do Act as the in-house electrical lead for Midjourney Medical: own the electrical architecture of the scanner and the technical direction for all board-level design. Own complex board design end-to-end: architecture, schematic capture, layout (high-speed digital, analog/mixed-signal, power), DFM/DFT, fabrication and assembly vendor management, bring-up, and revision control. Write firmware for embedded targets (MCU/SoC): drivers, real-time control loops, safety-relevant logic, bootloaders, and field update paths. Audit and update HDL (FPGA) code for high-throughput data acquisition, timing/synchronization, triggering, and pre-processing of ultrasound and sensor data streams. Define electrical interfaces and data contracts with software, recon/ML and mechanical teams: timing budgets, clocking/sync, signal integrity, connectors/harnessing, and failure modes. Establish electrical engineering rigor: design reviews, schematic/layout review checklists, bring-up procedures, test fixtures, and documentation suitable for a regulated medical device program (DHF, traceability, change control). Mentor and grow the electrical function; select and manage external design partners where leverage is high. What we’re looking for Deep experience designing complex boards from blank page to stable revision, including high-speed digital and analog/mixed-signal domains. Strong schematic and layout skills (Altium/KiCad or equivalent) with real signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI/EMC instincts. Solid embedded firmware background in C/C++ (and Python for tooling): peripherals, DMA, interrupts, real-time constraints, and debugging on hardware. Practical HDL experience (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog) for data acquisition, timing, and streaming interfaces. Track record of owning bring-up and debug on real hardware: scopes, logic analyzers, and disciplined root-cause analysis. Technical leadership: clear trade-offs, strong written documentation, and the ability to set

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations US Applications will be accepted until October 13, 2026. About the Role The Global GTM Strategy, Planning and Operations team at Cloudflare supports our high-growth Sales organization through scalable, AI supported GTM planning and operations. We focus on thoughtful planning of sales capacity, segmentation, territory carving, quota setting, and compensation design while ensuring clear rules of engagement for our Sales Team. Our goal

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. As a Fab Engineer at Micron Technology, Inc., you will be working with a team of other process and equipment engineers responsible for starting up, developing and optimizing processes to improve product quality and reliability, working on process yield improvement, cost reduction, productivity improvement and risk management as well as resolving manufacturing line problems. This position will identify, diagnose and resolve process related problems by applying failure analysis, FMEA, 8D or SPC methodology. Additional responsibilities include coordinating and carrying out process, equipment and material evaluation/optimization to implement changes at process step, leading and participating in yield improvement and cost reduction activities, handling new process baseline qualifications and managing, auditing and liaising with material suppliers to achieve quality, cost and risk management objectives. Responsibilities Strategize and lead productivity, yield, quality, and cost improvement engagements with global sites and the network team via plasma process optimization, new/FOAK chemistry & hardware qualification , and CIP development collaboration with dry etch suppliers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive breakthroughs in def

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to join our Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team. InfraSec protects the foundations of OpenAI’s research and production environments, spanning GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters, networking, storage, and the critical services that power our frontier AI models. Our charter includes securing everything from bare-metal hardware and firmware, to Kubernetes clusters and service meshes, to data storage and access pathways for highly sensitive model weights and user data. As a principal engineer, you will set technical direction and drive execution on high-impact infrastructure security programs, partnering across various orgs at OpenAI to deliver durable controls that raise the security bar at OpenAI scale. In this role, you will: Own end-to-end security outcomes for one or more critical infrastructure areas, including multi-quarter strategy, roadmap, and delivery. Design and build security controls across diverse layers (e.g., physical hardware, firmware/BMC, OS, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD) to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats. Lead cross-functional programs to deploy security enhancements and control changes across broad-scale infrastructure, balancing security guarantees with reliability and velocity. Take a generalist approach to building security controls, balancing a mix of security expertise and broad technical skillsets

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. As a Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer and Member of the Technical Staff in the Procurement and Operations Central Teams (PROCT) and Advanced Development Team (ADT), you will primarily focus in the early maturity phase of new products as they transition from technology development centers to our high-volume manufacturing sites. Your contributions to our team will support innovation and enable improvements in product yield, quality and cost reduction that are vital to enable our manufacturing strategy. We are looking for outstanding candidates experienced with semiconductor process development/optimization, hardware and supplier management, and an understanding of NAND & DRAM integration to contribute and grow with our organization. Good organization skills and the ability to work independently or in teams is a must and because this role is essential to the success of Micron's products it will require international travel to Micron manufacturing and technology development sites. Responsibilities Collaborate with Technology Development (TD) on future technology requirements and model of record requirements to ensure manufacturing roadmap is aligned with the forward technology path Partner with TD and Manufacturing on supplier engagement to ensure resources meet Micron's strategic objectives. Collaborate with Manufacturing as new products are introduced to improve performance and enable customer qualification. Connect with corporate EHSS and site Process Hazard Analysis engine