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What We Do At GoGuardian, we’re helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe. What It’s Like to Work at GoGuardian We are an outcomes-focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability. We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why “I love the people here” is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians. The Role We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build new and maintain existing products in GoGuardian’s Safety product suite . In this role, you’ll contribute to the full software development lifecycle, from conception, research, definition, scoping, planning, implementation, and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance. This position sits on the Beacon Team, a team that creates solutions to the challenges schools face keeping children safe from threats and violence and providing insights and opportunities for interventions with students that need support. The ideal candidate is curious, able to manage risk, and driven to deliver quality software. What You'll Do Collaborate with a cross-functional team toward feature delivery; Working both independently and in pairs/groups with others of varying skill levels Leverage strong problem solving skills to apply existing knowle

About the role We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead a team building software systems that detect and prevent harmful misuse of frontier AI models—before incidents occur. This is a builder’s role: you’ll lead engineers shipping production services, detection pipelines, and mitigation mechanisms that protect frontier model integrity and reduce high-severity misuse risk. While this work intersects with frontier model development, security and risk, we’re explicitly seeking someone with a software engineering foundation who is comfortable building reliable systems that can operate at billions of users scale. In this role you will: Lead a team of software engineers building detection + mitigation systems for frontier model misuse, with an emphasis on model IP protection / distillation detection and emerging risk surfaces from autonomous agents. Set the technical roadmap and execution strategy: prioritize, design, ship, iterate, measure impact. Build production systems: services, pipelines, tooling, instrumentation, and automation that scale with frontier model usage. Partner deeply with Research and Product to translate evolving model capabilities into concrete tests, signals, and mitigations that can be deployed at scale. Drive strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence. Hire and grow an exceptional team across backend, data systems, and applied ML engineering domains as needed. Anticipate what breaks at scale as agentic workflows become more capable. You might thrive in this role if you: Experience building systems in adversarial, fast-evolving environments Are comfortable with ambiguity and novelty Have experience adjacent to security (e.g., abuse prevention, fraud, integrity, platform defense, auth/identity, malware/spam, adversarial environments) Communicate clearly and build trust quickly with senior stakeholders—pragmatic, collaborative, and calm under scrutiny. Significant experience

Senior Data Engineer Insurance underwriting runs on human judgment, manual workflows, and knowledge locked in someone's head. It breaks when that person leaves and doesn't scale when the book doubles. Sixfold is building AI agents that understand risk the way a 20-year veteran underwriter does. Not summaries or flags, but systems that make real decisions on billions in premium for some of the world's largest carriers. AI is the product and the workflow. The Senior Data Engineer makes sure the data powering those decisions is trusted, governed, and built to scale. If you live and breathe Data and AI tools, understand how models work under the hood, and can translate that into business outcomes for a room full of skeptical underwriters, this role was written for you. Who We Are 🏔 Product: Sixfold is the AI brain for underwriting. Our platform handles submissions at scale, assessing risk against appetite, surfacing cited insights, and deploying AI agents to handle triage, research, and referrals so underwriters can focus on building profitable portfolios. 💪 Team: A focused team of insurance operators, AI researchers, and engineers who love hard problems. We're pushing the boundaries of AI adoption across every function, from how we build, to how we sell and to how we support customers. We ship fast and stay close. 📈 Traction: Processing billions in premium for some of the world's largest carriers. We know AI. We know underwriting. We're building what comes next. About the Role In this role, you will: Lead data platform strategy and execution. Partner with the CDAO to shape overall data strategy and translate it into engineering roadmaps with clear owners, timelines, and outcomes. You're not inheriting a finished system — you're making consequential architectural decisions that compound over time. Own the Snowflake data lake end to end. Develop, maintain, and evolve the platform and its associated services — from ingestion to serving. This includes architecting data

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. 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. Device Identity and Access Organization The Device Identity and Access organization is at the forefront of Okta’s Zero Trust vision. As a foundational pillar within Okta Research and Development (ORD), our mission is to transform the device itself into a secure, trusted, and effortless identity factor. We are the teams responsible for ensuring users can seamlessly interact with their work from any endpoint, anywhere in the world. We engineer the end-to-end device experience—from our flagship FastPass , Okta Device Access (ODA), and Device Assurance . Our teams own the continuous authentication pipeline, device lifecycle management, and the sophisticated cloud services that analyze real-time trust and assurance signals to make frictionless, passwordless access a reality across Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux and Android. Our organization is composed of engineers who thrive at the intersection of deep client-side platform engineering and massive-s

About Graphcore At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence . Job Summary Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems The Team The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible. Responsibilities and Duties Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform Candidate Profile Essential:

Senior Container Security Engineer – CVE Remediation & Image Hardening About the Role We are looking for a hands-on Senior Container Security Engineer to lead vulnerability remediation and image hardening across Linux-based container environments. This role focuses on deep operating system and container security engineering rather than simple vulnerability scanning. You will analyze, remediate, rebuild, harden, and continuously optimize container images used in modern cloud-native platforms. You will work closely with platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to build automated remediation pipelines, reduce the attack surface, and deliver production-ready hardened images. What You’ll Do - Own end-to-end CVE remediation across Linux-based container images. - Analyze vulnerabilities across OS packages, libraries, runtimes, and dependencies. - Patch, rebuild, validate, and maintain hardened container images at scale. - Reduce attack surface by removing unnecessary packages, binaries, services, and dependencies. - Build and scale automated remediation pipelines for continuous image patching. - Improve image security posture while minimizing operational disruption. - Generate, validate, and maintain SBOMs to support supply chain visibility and compliance. - Integrate remediation workflows into CI/CD and GitOps pipelines. - Optimize image size, startup performance, and operational efficiency. - Research emerging Linux, container, Kubernetes, and software supply chain threats. - Troubleshoot complex dependency, package compatibility, and runtime security issues. - Help define internal standards for hardened images and secure software delivery. What You Bring - 5+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, security engineering, or SRE. - Deep understanding of Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, RHEL). - Strong hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and

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. As Vanta continues to grow, winning in the International markets will be critical. We’re just starting to establish our EMEA presence, and we need talented and customer focused Account Executives who are excited to help build and grow a large and untapped UK&I markets as we continue to distinguish Vanta as best-in-class to prospects in a burgeoning competitive landscape. If this sounds like you, and you’re excited to be a part of our sales team in EMEA, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll do as an Account Executive at Vanta: Own your pipeline from the ground up — identify, research, and prioritize high-potential accounts and verticals, building a consistent outbound motion to create new opportunities. Run a world-class sales process — qualify deeply, forecast accurately, and progress deals using MEDDPICC or a similar structured methodology to drive predictable outcomes. Convert interest into long-term value — educate prospects on the business impact of Vanta, deliver compelling demos, and tailor solution recommendations to each customer’s goals. Communicate with executive presence — engage confidently with founders, CEOs, and technical leaders, translating complex compliance and security concepts into clear business value. Continuously sharpen your craft — act on feedback, seek coaching, and contribute to improving team playbooks, messaging, and outbound best practices. Be a self-starter who makes things happen — operate with urgency, ownership, and autonomy in a fast-moving environment where results matter. Champion market expansion — explore partnership opportunities, represent Vanta at industry events, and help us de

🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role As an AI engineer at WRITER, you'll be at the forefront of shaping how enterprises harness superintelligence. This isn't just about theory; you'll be building tangible AI solutions that power the future of work for hundreds of the world's leading companies. Your work will directly impact the performance, scalability, and ethical alignment of our cutting-edge LLMs and AI agents, enabling businesses to unlock unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation with AI that is truly grounded in their data. This role can be hybrid in our San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle hubs. You'll report to the head of AI engineering. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you'll do Architect, develop, and deploy high-performance, scalable AI applications into production environments, ensuring robust integrations with our end-to-end platform. Drive the development of intelligent agents and AI-powered features, translating complex research into practical, impactful solutions for our customers. Coll

🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role As an AI engineer at WRITER, you'll be at the forefront of shaping how enterprises harness superintelligence. This isn't just about theory; you'll be building tangible AI solutions that power the future of work for hundreds of the world's leading companies. Your work will directly impact the performance, scalability, and ethical alignment of our cutting-edge LLMs and AI agents, enabling businesses to unlock unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation with AI that is truly grounded in their data. This role can be hybrid in our London hub. You'll report to the head of AI engineering. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you'll do Architect, develop, and deploy high-performance, scalable AI applications into production environments, ensuring robust integrations with our end-to-end platform. Drive the development of intelligent agents and AI-powered features, translating complex research into practical, impactful solutions for our customers. Collaborate closely with research scien

Who we are Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale. Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term. About the role: This is a dynamic, high energy role in which you will bring the Internet of Things to mid-sized customers, building Samsara's business and bringing the benefits of sensor data to customers. Typical sales will be $20k to $100k, and involve POCs, multiple stakeholders, managing trials, multi-faceted pricing negotiations, and selling to executives and CXOs. This is a remote position open to candidates based in Canada You should apply if: You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely. Your mantra is #alwaysbeprospecting: The world of operations is vast. Your customers are often out in the field and the best way to catch them is live on the phone. Samsara’s top reps do constant research to find companies and contacts to expand their pipeline. You have innate

Overview : Guidepoint’s Business Development teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all of Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint. Play a vital role in Guidepoint’s success. The Business Development team is looking for an entry-level Sales Development Representative to further develop our business with major corporate institutions, F500 Corporations, Startups, etc. within the region . The Associate will be responsible for assisting in building a pipeline of prospects across a variety of industries. This is a hybrid position out of our London office . All applicants must have the right to work in the UK. What You’ll Do: Identify prospect clients and communicate Guidepoint's value proposition via email and telephone Build relationships and schedule meetings with clients and senior sales managers Map companies in order to identify target groups and job functions Utilize Guidepoint's brand to create and develop a robust pipeline of qualified prospects to help drive Guidepoint's commercial success Research target industries, sub-sectors and companies in order to understand their information/research needs and pain-points Work alongside senior sales professionals to provide engaging content for meetings with prospects and effectively articulate our value proposition Develop a strong knowledge and understanding of the competitive landscape Provide client/prospect feedback to sales and management What You Have: Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record and extracurricular achievement 1+ years of experience in a client-facing role, eg. sales, account management, client management, etc. Outgoing personality with the ability and willingness to make

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Senior Manager, Machine Learning on Twilio’s Conversation Memory team. About the job This position is critical to leveraging Twilio’s massive data ecosystem and communication scale to build foundational platform capabilities for the next generation of conversational AI, specifically by owning the development of 0-to-1 platform features that empower developers to build sophisticated, context-aware customer engagement applications. This is a highly technical, hands-on role, requiring a "player-coach" mentality to actively contribute technical expertise, bridge the gap between theoretical research and production-grade experimentation, and provide strategic direction to the team, rather than being purely a people manager. The leader in this role must demonstrate a strong bias for action, establishing a high-performing engineering setup that enables rapid iteration, experimentation, and deployment of models in this 0-to-1 set

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Ship state of the art models to production. Design and implement novel research ideas. Build elegant training/deployment pipelines. Join us at a pivotal moment, shape what we build and wear multiple hats as an intern! Our recruitment process will begin in the upcoming weeks, and we will be carefully reviewing applications and assessing potential candidates for our internships. Should we find a suitable match with your qualifications and our requirements, we will be in touch to discuss the opportunity further and to advance your application to the next stage Please Note: To be eligible for this position you should be a student currently enrolled in a post-secondary program, available for a full-time 3-6 month internship, co-op, or research work term. As a Machine Learning Intern, you will: Design, train and improve upon cutting-edge models. Help us develop new techniques to train and serve models safer, better, and faster. Train extremely large-scale models on massive datasets. Explore continual and active learning strategies for streaming data. Learn from experienced senior machine learning technical staff. Work c

AI Engineer – Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) (ALL LEVELS) CSQ327R177 Mission The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly. Open to remote locations. This role is intended for experienced engineers with demonstrated industry experience designing, building, and deploying production GenAI and LLM applications at scale. It is not intended for internship, new graduate, or entry-level applicants. The impact you will have: Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit , recognized as a thought leader internally and externally Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap What we look for: Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, levera

About the Team Our Safety Systems team is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency. Within Safety Systems, the Model Policy team aligns model behavior with desired human values and norms. We co-design policy with models and for models by driving rapid policy taxonomy iteration based on data and defining evaluation criteria for foundational models’ ability to reason about safety. About the Role Frontier AI systems are rapidly expanding what is possible in cybersecurity and software engineering. These capabilities create major defensive opportunities, but they also raise serious dual-use and misuse risks across areas such as malware development, exploit discovery, vulnerability chaining, credential abuse, cyber intrusion, and autonomous offensive operations. In this role, you will help define how OpenAI’s models should behave in high-risk cybersecurity contexts. You will develop policy frameworks, threat models, taxonomies, evaluations, and behavioral specifications that guide model behavior across training, deployment, and monitoring systems. This role sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI safety, threat modeling, evaluation science, and policy implementation. You will work closely with research, engineering, safety training, preparedness, and product teams to build policies that are technically grounded, measurable, enforceable, and responsive to real-world cyber risk. Your Responsibilities: Design and maintain model policies for cybersecurity and frontier-risk domains, especially dual-use and high-risk cyber capabilities. Translate cybersecurity threat models into clear behavioral specifications, evaluation criteria, grading guidance, and system-level mitigations. Define practical boundaries between legitimate security research, defensive workflows, and assistance that could materially enable harmful activity. Build policy artifacts that support i