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RDQ127R59 Summary As a Senior Applied ML Engineer on the Applied AI team at Databricks, you will use machine learning, scheduling, and optimization algorithms to maximize the efficiency and performance of our infrastructure. Your work will span the entire stack—from cluster management down to query compilation. You will solve complex, high-impact engineering problems to deliver highly optimized, cost-effective workloads for our customers. Impact You Will Have Accelerate Serverless Growth: Drive the scaling and efficiency of Databricks serverless compute products through advanced optimization techniques. Build Systems: Design end-to-end ML4Sys solutions from the ground up within a lean team of domain experts to support Shape Strategy: Define the roadmap for applied ML investments by collaborating with engineering and product leaders across Databricks. Drive Deployment: Architect, train, and deploy state-of-the-art models that directly improve product performance and cost efficiency. Scale Infrastructure: Build robust ML pipelines, data processing layers, model serving components, and production monitoring systems to help scale Innovate: Research and implement novel modeling techniques tailored specifically to computer systems and distributed environments. Minimum Qualifications Education: Background in Computer Science and Master's degree in Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related computational field (AI, Bioinformatics, EE, Physics, etc). ML Experience: Strong background in building, training, and deploying machine learning models in production. Infrastructure Knowledge: Practical familiarity with cloud computing, distributed systems, and modern data processing frameworks. Core Coding: Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java. Preferred Skills Advanced Education: PhD in AI, Data Science, or a related technical discipline. Industry Experience: 4+ years of machine learning engineering experience in high-velocity, high-growth environment. Systems Domain:

Overview Role: Product Designer 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $175k-$250k Equity: Competitive initial equity package + refreshers 5+ years of experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time market data with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global, and more. The Role We’re hiring a Product Designer to help define what modern commodity risk software should look and feel like. At Pillar, design means making an exceptionally complex domain clear, fast, and intuitive for people with different roles, levels of market expertise, and ways of working. You’ll own critical product experiences from ambiguous problem through shipped solution, working directly with founders, engineers, and customers. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for a designer with great taste, strong product judgment, and an eye for the tiny details that determine how a product feels. You should be equally comfortable thinking in systems, learning complex workflows, prototyping quickly, and refining an interaction until it is excellent. What You’ll Do Own core product experiences end-to-end—from customer research and early concepts through polished UI, launch, and iteration Learn complex commodity risk workflows and turn them into one clear, intuitive experience across diverse users, workflows, and domains Work directly with founders, engineers, and customers to define product direction and translate real operating needs into shipped solutions Solve

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. Role Description: We are looking for an independent, dedicated Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the Visual Computing Group (VCG) and contribute to redefining the world of game play and live streaming via advanced R&D. VCG’s mission is to design and deploy advanced neural networks and machine learning (ML) for game rendering and streaming systems of SIE that exceed the state-of-the-art in runtime efficiency, visual quality and latency. What you’ll be doing: Develop and improve core generative models for graphics and video processing for a variety of applications, such as live video streaming, game rendering, etc. Research and prototyping of new methods for graphics or video enhancement, and data generation pipelines from generative models Collaborate with team members on drafting publications and patent submissions Participate and assist the team in core R&D work with other teams within Sony Interactive Entertainment What we’re looking for: PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics or a related field, or equivalent skills evidenced by work experience in the specific domain of the post 7+ years of experience in demonstrable research experience in indust

Your wellbeing, our mission. Join a company shaping a healthier world. GET TO KNOW US At Wellhub we're revolutionizing workplace wellness. Our platform connects employees worldwide to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep—all in one simple subscription. Headquartered in NYC with team members in Europe, North America and South America, we’re on a mission to make every company a wellness company. We believe work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced. Here, you’ll find a team that values wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives, where passion and creativity push boundaries to create real impact. Your contributions will help shape a healthier, more balanced world for you and millions of people globally. Join us in redefining the future of wellbeing! THE OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Partner Sales Representative III to join our German Partner team in Berlin/Cologne/Munich! This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum of two days per week in our office. YOUR IMPACT Convert high-value prospects: Demonstrate resourcefulness to connect and communicate value, provide optimal commercial conditions, and collaborate to ensure business objectives are met under conditions of critical importance to the client team's success. Execute High-Volume Outbound Outreach: Systematically conduct 50+ cold calls per day, alongside targeted email and social media outreach, to identify and engage potential new partners. Prospect and Qualify Leads: Research and identify key decision-makers within target businesses, qualifying their potential interest and fit for our platform. Manage the Full Sales Cycle: Lead potential partners through every stage of the sales process, from initial contact and discovery to negotiation and closing. Conduct Engaging Presentations: Articulate our value proposition clearly and persuasively, presenting the benefits of joining our network directly to business owners and decision-makers. Negotiate and Clos

Technical Product Manager (Data Platform) Location : Athens Weekly office requirement : Hybrid, 1 days/week Employment type : Permanent At GWI we’re always looking for extraordinary people who thrive on making an extraordinary impact. Right now we’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to play a key role in our Data Product team in London . If that’s you, and solving complex technical problems at scale gets you out of bed in the morning, keep reading. It could be the start of something, well, extraordinary. Sounds great, what will I be doing? 🤔 As our Technical Product Manager , you’ll sit within the Process pillar of the Data Product Team and own the evolution of our next-generation data platform. You’ll help shape the strategy and lead on the execution of how we ingest, process, validate, govern, and deliver high-quality consumer survey data at scale. This includes accelerating our migration from legacy pipelines into our modern data stack (BigQuery, dbt, Airflow/Astronomer), while ensuring near-zero disruption to client delivery. This role is critical to GWI’s future. Our Data Platform underpins everything we deliver to customers — from SaaS insights to APIs and AI integrations. Your work will directly impact how quickly new surveys reach clients, how reliably our data performs at scale, and how efficiently our internal teams operate. Specifically, you will: 👉 Shape and execute the roadmap for scalable, automated survey processing on our Data Platform 👉 Reduce time from survey completion to client availability through workflow automation, validation frameworks, and release optimisation 👉 Lead migration from legacy pipelines to NDP, sequencing change to deliver early impact while maintaining delivery stability 👉 Partner deeply with Data Engineering, Software Engineering, ML Engineering, Research, and Data Operations teams to translate complex pipeline needs into robust platform capabilities 👉 Champion observability, data quality, lineage, and governance-

As a Contract Sourcer on our Talent Discovery team, you will be the pipeline generation engine supporting MongoDB's most critical hiring needs across the business. You will have the unique opportunity to become a sourcing subject matter expert, recruiting for technical and non-technical roles alike. In this role, you will identify, engage, and qualify top talent. This opportunity is ideal for individuals who embrace change, thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, and are excited to grow their careers in recruiting while expanding their expertise across a broad range of functions as business priorities evolve. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model. In this role, you will Support critical MongoDB roles globally through strategic passive talent sourcing. Individuals will be expected to quickly pivot to support new areas of MongoDB’s business as hiring needs arise, and show flexibility to take on various positions across Go-To-Market and Technology teams as needed Work closely with recruiters to understand business needs and deliver qualified talent accordingly, becoming an expert in the external market and a consultative talent advisor Screen candidates for nuanced roles, ensuring strong alignment to role requirements and maintaining exceptional documentation and data integrity as candidates are progressed within the hiring process Partner with coordinators, hiring managers and interviewers to deliver an exceptional candidate experience, maintaining a high-touch and personalized process for all candidates The right person for this role will Possess a proven track-record within technical recruiting, maintaining deep expertise in passive candidate sourcing specifically Maintain creative and out-of-the-box sourcing techniques to tap into new pools of talent, while uncovering new tactics through research and knowledge-sharing with peers Have an analytical mindset, with the ability to conduct autonomous resea

About Appier Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.appier.com . About the role AI is reshaping how brands connect with consumers — and at Appier, we’re at the forefront. Our Playable Ads team builds AI-powered ad experiences — from interactive playable formats to video ads — that drive higher engagement and conversion for apps and games worldwide. We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to turn promising models and prototypes into reliable, scalable creative-generation systems used in real products. This role sits at the intersection of applied ML and software engineering. You’ll work with scientists, backend and frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to build pipelines that generate, evaluate, and continuously improve ad creatives—while meeting production standards for quality, latency, cost, observability, and reliability. What You’ll Work On Build and operate reliable, scalable ML and generative AI pipelines that power automated content creation, personalization, and optimization across a range of creative formats and products. Productionize research prototypes and models by designing service and API contracts, containerized workers, asynchronous orchestration, artifact storage, and clear ownership boundaries. Apply modern ML—including LLMs, VLMs, multimodal generation, and agentic tool use—to improve creative quality, automation, and personalization. Engineer reliable workflo

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. Responsibilities and Tasks: • Establish and improve process condition and technology. • Upgrade process capability and reduce production cost. • Establish and modify process management projects. • Set up process parameters for a variety of semiconductor equipment. • Evaluation, promotion and planning of new equipment / materials. • Abnormal analysis and improvement. AI Relevant Job Responsibilities: - Integrates AI-assisted tools and insights into daily work to improve efficiency, quality, or effectiveness, exercising sound judgment and complying with organizational standards and legal requirements. - Contributes to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, testing, and sharing AI-enabled enhancements within one’s scope of work. - Ability to apply baseline digital fluency and role ‑ appropriate AI literacy to use AI ‑ enabled tools responsibly and effectively for research, analysis, content creation, problem ‑ solving, operational tasks, and achieving business About Micron Technology, Inc. We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all . With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence

Location: In-Person (New York, NY) Compensation: $18.00 – $20.00 / hour Commitment: 30-40 hours/week, with a transition to part-time during the academic year. Position Overview At Eulerity, we are building the future of AI-driven marketing automation. To scale our technology, we need to scale our team with top-tier talent. We are looking for a highly analytical, deeply curious intern with a true builder mentality to join us in our New York office. This is not a traditional internship. This role is designed as a training ground for future Product Managers. You will treat our recruiting pipeline and internal operations like a product—analyzing the data, identifying bottlenecks, testing solutions, and optimizing the "user" (candidate) experience. You will work closely with leadership to recruit the best talent while learning how to build, ship, and scale processes from the ground up. What You Will Build & Manage 1. Talent Sourcing & Recruiting Pipeline Hunt for Talent: Proactively source passive candidates across technical and business roles using LinkedIn Recruiter and alternative networks. Manage the "User Journey": Treat the candidate experience like a product flow. Coordinate interviews, manage our Applicant Tracking System (ATS), and ensure every touchpoint is seamless and reflects Eulerity's brand. 2. Analytics & Process Optimization Funnel Analysis: Track key recruiting metrics (time-to-hire, drop-off rates, source effectiveness) to figure out where our hiring process is succeeding or failing. Data-Driven Solutions: Build dashboards and reports to present to leadership, using data to advocate for changes in how we evaluate, interview, and close candidates. Market Intelligence: Conduct competitive research on compensation, benefits, and market trends to ensure our offers remain highly competitive. Who You Are The Builder Mentality: You do not wait to be told what to do. You see broken processes and immediately want to design a system to fix the

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Geometry team, you will drive foundational algorithms for real-time 3D content creation and editing that power the Roblox platform. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will solve novel math computational problems and deliver immersive, expressive creative tools to millions of users. At this level, you are expected to own pod-level or team-level projects from inception to implementation, provide technical direction to junior collaborators, and contribute to the team’s long-term technical strategy. You Will: Own End-to-End Development: Lead complex, team-level projects through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to production deployment and maintenance. Architect Robust Solutions: Develop efficient algorithms for geometry processing (e.g., convex decomposition, mesh partitioning, boolean operations) that support real-time simulation, collision detection, and performance requirements across all platforms. Mentor and Lead: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and collaborative architectural discussions. Solve Computational Problems: Tackle discrete m

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. From the early days, simulated physics has been the foundation of the way users build in Roblox. Our physics engine enables dynamic environments with emergent behavior making games more immersive and exciting. The Physics team develops Roblox's proprietary distributed physics engine. Our team implements the mathematical models behind our dynamic simulation engine, and ships engine APIs and tools that developers use every day. These models incorporate rigid body dynamics arising from external forces, collisions, and constraints while optimizing for real-time performance. We work on integrating the low level physics solver into the rest of the engine for online gameplay across multiple platforms. You will report to the Physics Environment Engineering Manager. You Will: Innovate and implement powerful physics features that empower Roblox developers to create immersive and dynamic experiences. Drive innovation through research and rapid prototyping , translating new ideas into practical solutions that stand the test of time. Optimize and enhance the robustness and performance of the physics engine and its integrations, ensuring a seamless user experience. Collaborate with internal teams and ext

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 The Palantir Design Team is responsible for the human experience of using our software. Our team is growing rapidly, but we're committed to creating a tight-knit team environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth. We work together in realizing a shared product vision, and regularly give feedback and critique to each other. Designing at Palantir is a varied experience. On a given day, you might be: leading a design sprint for your product team; designing a micro-interaction to make a complex analytical task feel simple; and/or advocating for UX consistency by creating flexible, reusable UI components. Core Responsibilities As a Product Design intern, your responsibilities look similar to a full-time designer, with the resources, stability, and mentorship of an established tech company. You’ll work on product teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end execution of real product features. You will work with fellow Designers, Product Managers, Developers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to refine and evolve the quality of Palantir products. Interaction and visual design . You'll be involved at every stage of design work. You'll help define early product concepts, flesh out the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of a feature, and execute on a crisp and effective visual design. You should have experience designing and prototyping using tools such as Figma. User research . We frequently do informal user research, and value people who can be flexible with research processes and methodologies to achieve the right outcome. You'll often visit customer offices to interview and learn

About Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel. We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others. We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team. About the Role Decagon's Strategic Deals are with the largest companies in the world. Each one puts a Decagon agent in front of millions of users, fielding hundreds of millions of conversations a year. These deals are won on technical execution: hard problems without an off-the-shelf answer, latency and reliability constraints at real scale, and requirements that push the product into new territory. You'll own the technical build for 1–3 Strategic Deals end-to-end, operating like the founding CTO of each. You'll work directly with the customer’s senior engineering and product leaders to figure out what they need for the deal to be successful. From there, you decide what Decagon should build, ship it, and productionize it so it benefits every customer, not just this one. You're across every technical workstream on the deal, from infrastructure and the agent build to model evaluation, research, and the reliability work that makes it production-grade. You sit at the center of product strategy: your de

About Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel. We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others. We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team. About the Role Decagon's Strategic Deals are with the largest companies in the world. Each one puts a Decagon agent in front of millions of users, fielding hundreds of millions of conversations a year. These deals are won on technical execution: hard problems without an off-the-shelf answer, latency and reliability constraints at real scale, and requirements that push the product into new territory. You'll own the technical build for 1–3 Strategic Deals end-to-end, operating like the founding CTO of each. You'll work directly with the customer’s senior engineering and product leaders to figure out what they need for the deal to be successful. From there, you decide what Decagon should build, ship it, and productionize it so it benefits every customer, not just this one. You're across every technical workstream on the deal, from infrastructure and the agent build to model evaluation, research, and the reliability work that makes it production-grade. You sit at the center of product strategy: your de

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. From the early days, simulated physics has been the foundation of the way users build in Roblox. Our physics engine enables dynamic environments with emergent behavior making games more immersive and exciting. The Physics team develops Roblox's proprietary distributed physics engine. Our team implements the mathematical models behind our dynamic simulation engine, and ships engine APIs and tools that developers use every day. These models incorporate rigid body dynamics arising from external forces, collisions, and constraints while optimizing for real-time performance. We work on integrating the low level physics solver into the rest of the engine for online gameplay across multiple platforms. You will report to the Physics Environment Engineering Manager. You Will: Innovate and implement powerful physics features that empower Roblox developers to create immersive and dynamic experiences. Drive innovation through research and rapid prototyping , translating new ideas into practical solutions that stand the test of time. Optimize and enhance the robustness and performance of the physics engine and its integrations, ensuring a seamless user experience. Collaborate with internal teams and ext