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RDQ426R193 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Search plays a foundational role in this mission. Whether through keyword-based retrieval, semantic similarity via vector embeddings, or hybrid approaches that combine both, our Search technologies help customers find, discover, and understand information across massive, complex datasets. These capabilities power everything from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI assistants, and recommendation systems to enterprise knowledge management, in-product search, and data exploration. As a Senior Engineering Manager for Search, you’ll play a critical role in building and scaling our next-generation Search product — spanning Vector Search, Keyword Search, and Search Quality. You’ll drive the design and evolution of a highly-performant, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly Search stack that enables customers to build AI applications with accuracy, speed, and scale. Beyond hands-on contributions, you’ll help define the long-term vision, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, and lead strategic efforts that expand the technical and business impact of Search at Databricks. Check out our recent blog post: Decoupled by Design: Billion-Scale AI Search The impact you will have: Lead a team of talented software engineers to design, build, and operate the next-generation cloud-native Search services. Drive innovation across Vector Search, Keyword Search, and Hybrid Search capabilities to improve relevance, latency, and cost efficiency. Build a strong partnership with product and research teams to define the roadmap for Search Quality, including ranking models and evaluation frameworks. Mana

P-1408 The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products . Databricks’ customers are continuously creating new assets (tables, notebooks, dashboards, datarooms, pipelines, sql queries, ml models etc.) on the platform. Some of them can have hundreds of millions of assets. Finding an asset is a critical user journey for Databricks’ customers which helps them accomplish their tasks. As our Search product continues to evolve, we are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead enhancements to our Search Quality. In 2025, we will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale. Key Responsibilities Drive the development and deployment of ML based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services. Design and implement automated ML and NLP pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding and rewrite, ranking and retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration. Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to drive technology-first initiatives that enable novel business strategies and product roadmaps for the search and discovery experience. Contribute to building a robust framework for evaluating search ranking improvements - both offline and online. What We’re Looking For BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field. 10+ years experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments. Experience applying LLM to search relevance Experience in one or more of the following: Query understanding NLP Text mining Recommendations Personalization Discovery Conversational AI Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals. Contributions to well-used open-source projects. Why Join Us? At Databricks,

P-1408 The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products. Databricks’ customers are continuously creating new assets (tables, notebooks, dashboards, datarooms, pipelines, sql queries, ml models etc.) on the platform. Some of them can have hundreds of millions of assets. Finding an asset is a critical user journey for Databricks’ customers which helps them accomplish their tasks. As our Search product continues to evolve, we are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead enhancements to our Search Quality. In 2026, we will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale. Key Responsibilities Drive the development and deployment of ML based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services. Design and implement automated ML and NLP pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding and rewrite, ranking and retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration. Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to drive technology-first initiatives that enable novel business strategies and product roadmaps for the search and discovery experience. Contribute to building a robust framework for evaluating search ranking improvements - both offline and online. What We’re Looking For BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field. 10+ years experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments. Experience applying LLM to search relevance Experience in one or more of the following: Query understanding NLP Text mining Recommendations Personalization Discovery Conversational AI Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals. Contributions to well-used open-source projects. Why Join Us? At Databricks, w

The Applied AI team designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. We work across a range of applications, primarily focusing on analysis on streaming data such as anomaly detection , error outliers and faulty deployment analysis . As an Applied Scientist you will work on building models and algorithms for machine learning powered features within the Datadog platform. You will work closely with our engineering and product partners to explore, build, scale and deliver these features that we incubate within the Applied AI team. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Design solutions for our different use cases. You will research and benchmark relevant algorithms to find the best fit for our use-cases Leverage machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new scalable product features Develop, deploy and monitor new and existing features to production Participate in our journal club by reading and presenting the latest academic research papers to the team Explore, analyze and tell the story behind high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems Maintain and monitor the models, services and infrastructure owned by your team Participate in your team’s on-call rotation Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or related scientific field or equivalent experience You have experience working with high-scale systems and datasets including building models, applying machine learning to real business problems, and writing production data pipelines You can explain complex ideas and algorithms to non-technical audiences You care about code simplicity and performance You are excited to work on

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts , accounts for 16-17 year olds , a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save , invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ 📍London (Hybrid) / UK Remote | 💰 £90,000 - £120,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits ⭐Our Design team We’re a team of 115+ designers, researchers, and brand experts led by Chief Design Officer Vuokko Aro. We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. Product Design makes up almost half of our design disciplines, working in tight-knit squads alongside research, product, and engineering to solve real customer problems at scale. We design for the "magic moments" We’ve built a bank that feels human, not just functional. Our product is our personality. We blend research, empathy, and craft to turn everyday interactions into memorable experiences. Right now, we’re growing fast and looking for passionate designers to shape Monzo’s future and there’s a huge opportunity to make your mark. Applying to this role, you’ll be in a standard hiring process for a Lead Product Designer, and we’ll find the perfect team for you along the way. 🔑You’ll play a key role by... Tackling the most complex and ambiguous design challenges, turning complexity into elegant, scalable solutions that empower teams

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 • Interaction and visual design. As a product designer, 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 with some of the following mockup and prototyping tools: Sketch, Framer, Principle, Figma, Invision. • 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 from the users we serve. You'll pair qualitative methods (e.g. scripted usability tests and contextual inquiry) with quantitative information, like product and usage metrics. • Prototyping. You will prototype—using software like Principle and Framer, or another favorite method—both to communicate your designs and validate your decisions. • Partnering with engineers. We work closely with product and forw

About Scale AI At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 10 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments to deepen our capabilities and offerings for public and private evaluations. About Data Engine Our Generative AI Data Engine powers the world’s most advanced LLMs and generative models through world-class RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback), human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we produce is some of the most critical work for how humanity will interact with AI. About Our FDE Team Generating high-quality data is the core problem our business solves. We aim to make producing and delivering high-quality data seamless and efficient for operators and customers. Our Team is building customer and operator-specific infrastructure to provide high-quality data with low turnaround time. You'll be exposed to the cutting edge of the Generative AI industry while directly interfacing with the leading model-building organizations in the space, including the top AI research labs and government agencies. Join us in shaping the future of Artificial General Intelligence. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of providing the critical data infrastructure that powers the most advanced AI models, directly influencing how humanity interacts with AI. You will work with the world’s leading AI companies and government agencies to solve their most complex AI data-related problems. Responsibilities: Drive Impact: Directly contribute to the advancement of AI by delivering critical data solutions for leading AI innovators an

Job Title: Echocardiographer Banding: Band 6 Location: Wrexham, Clwyd Start: ASAP Duration: 3 months Rate: £50-£55 Working hours: Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00 or evenings and weekends Are you a skilled Echocardiographer looking for a flexible opportunity to advance your career? Our client, based in Wrexham, Clwyd, is seeking a dedicated professional to join their team. This role offers the chance to work with state-of-the-art equipment and contribute to innovative healthcare solutions. If you are passionate about echocardiography and committed to providing exceptional patient care, we would love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will be responsible for analysing echocardiograms, ensuring high-quality imaging and accurate diagnoses. You will collaborate closely with cardiologists and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive patient care. Additionally, you will maintain and calibrate echocardiography equipment, adhere to safety protocols, and contribute to the training and supervision of junior staff. Your role will also involve participating in audit and research activities to enhance service delivery. Qualifications and Experience: • BSc in Cardiac Physiology or equivalent. • HCPC registration as a Cardiac Physiologist. • Significant experience in echocardiography. • Strong understanding of echocardiography techniques and practices. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. • Commitment to continuous professional development. Why work with Pulse? From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out. Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of the way to secure the perfect placement. With our preferred or sole supplier status with many

Job Title: Sonographer Location: North London Specialties: General, Gynae, and Possible MSK Hours: Short days Start: ASAP Rate: £42.00 Are you a skilled Sonographer looking for a flexible opportunity to advance your career? Our client, based in North London, is seeking a dedicated professional to join their team. This role offers the chance to work with state-of-the-art equipment and contribute to innovative healthcare solutions. If you are passionate about sonography and committed to providing exceptional patient care, we would love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will independently perform and interpret a wide range of ultrasound examinations, including general, gynaecological, and musculoskeletal (MSK) scans. You will produce detailed reports, offering differential diagnoses and guidance on patient management. Additionally, you will provide second opinions to junior staff, participate in continuous professional development, and contribute to audit and research projects. Your role will also involve promoting and delivering high-quality ultrasound training to students, sonographers, radiographers, midwives, and registrars, while fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment. Qualifications and Experience: • DCR or BSc in Medical Ultrasound or equivalent. • PGDip in Medical Ultrasound or DMU equivalent. • Significant experience in general, gynaecological, and MSK ultrasound scans. • Strong understanding of ultrasound techniques. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. • Commitment to continuous professional development. Why work with Pulse? From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out. Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of

Job Title: CT Radiographer Location: Lincoln Hours: 10 hours Start: ASAP for a short term contract Pay rate: £26.00 per hour Are you a skilled CT Radiographer looking for a short-term opportunity to advance your career? Our client, based in Lincoln, is seeking a dedicated professional to join their team. This role offers the chance to work with state-of-the-art equipment and contribute to innovative healthcare solutions. If you are passionate about CT imaging and committed to providing exceptional patient care, we would love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will independently perform and interpret CT scans, ensuring high-quality imaging and accurate diagnoses. You will collaborate closely with radiologists and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive patient care. Additionally, you will maintain and calibrate CT equipment, adhere to safety protocols, and contribute to the training and supervision of junior staff. Your role will also involve participating in audit and research activities to enhance service delivery. Qualifications and Experience: • BSc in Radiography or equivalent. • HCPC registration as a Radiographer. • Significant experience in CT imaging. • Strong understanding of CT techniques and practices. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. • Commitment to continuous professional development. Why work with Pulse? From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out. Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of the way to secure the perfect placement. With our preferred or sole supplier status with many clients, you’ll have access to exclusive opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else. We always prioritise your best interest

About the Role The Engineering Acceleration team designs, builds and maintains the foundational systems that engineers use to build ChatGPT and the API. This is a fast-growing team and you will get a chance to own and define the strategy, vision, and plan for how to increase developer productivity. In this role, you will: Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output. Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry. Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements. Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations. Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems. Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers. Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout. Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others. Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary. As technical context: at the heart of our infrastructure is a large-scale deployment of GPU nodes running in dozens of Kubernetes clusters across regions. Some core technologies we build wit

Job Title: Physiotherapist Banding: Band 6 Location: London, Greater London Start: ASAP Duration: 2 months Rate: £27- £30 Working hours: Full-time Are you a dedicated Physiotherapist looking to advance your career in a supportive and dynamic environment? Our client, based in London, is seeking a skilled professional to join their team. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the health and well-being of patients, working with state-of-the-art equipment. If you are committed to providing exceptional physiotherapy care and eager to advance your career, we would love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will independently assess and treat patients with a variety of conditions, including musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, and respiratory issues. You will develop personalised treatment plans, incorporating exercises, manual therapy, and education to optimise patient outcomes. Your role will involve collaborating closely with other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive patient care. Additionally, you will participate in audit and research activities, contribute to the training and supervision of junior staff, and promote health and well-being through patient education. Qualifications and Experience: BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent. HCPC registration as a Physiotherapist. Inpatient experience in A&E Significant experience in managing a diverse clinical caseload. Strong understanding of physiotherapy techniques and practices. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Commitment to continuous professional development. Why work with Pulse? From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out. Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and suppo

Job Title: Respiratory Physiologist Banding: Band 7 Location: Basildon Start: ASAP Duration: 7 Months Rate: £32.00 - £35.00 Per Hour Working hours: Mon-Fri Are you a dedicated Respiratory Physiologist looking to advance your career in a supportive and dynamic environment? Our client, based in Basildon, is seeking a skilled professional to join their team. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and contribute to innovative healthcare solutions. If you are passionate about pulmonary physiology, sleep medicine, and ventilation techniques, and are ready to make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will independently perform and interpret a range of clinical respiratory investigations, including spirometry, gas transfer, and lung volume measurements, with a strong emphasis on physiology. You will provide detailed, factual reports to inform clinical diagnoses for both respiratory and non-respiratory physicians. Additionally, you will oversee the maintenance and calibration of equipment, ensuring high safety standards. Your role will involve liaising with medical staff, participating in research and audit projects, and staying updated with advancements in pulmonary physiology, sleep medicine, and ventilation techniques. You will also be expected to demonstrate compassionate leadership, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment. Qualifications and Experience: • BSc in Respiratory Clinical Physiology, Biological Sciences, or an equivalent qualification. • Significant experience working in a Lung Function Laboratory. • Proven ability to independently perform, interpret, and report on lung function tests. • Experience in sleep medicine and ventilation techniques. • Strong understanding of pulmonary physiology. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Wh

Job Title : Paediatric Community Speech and Language Therapy Location : Wirral Banding: Band 6 or Band 7 Start: ASAP Duration: 3 months Rate : £ 2 4 - £3 2 per hour Working hours: Full time & Part time We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Paediatric Community Speech and Language Therapist to join our client's team in Wirral. This role involves carrying out updated assessments for children with an EHCP, updating assessments and care plans, and providing face-to-face services. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the communication abilities and overall development of school-aged children. What will your responsibilities be : The Paediatric Community Speech and Language Therapist will be responsible for conducting updated assessments, developing and updating care plans, and collaborating with families, educators, and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive support. This role includes covering any clinical area across Children’s Speech and Language Therapy, working in both clinic and school settings across the Wirral. The therapist will also be involved in maintaining accurate records and participating in multidisciplinary meetings. Qualifications and Experiences: Relevant registration with a professional body (e.g., HCPC) Experience working in a similar post within the NHS Qualified to Masters Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent Strong understanding of paediatric speech, language, and communication disorders Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team Proficiency in using therapy platforms and technology Commitment to continuous professional development and staying updated with the latest research and best practices in the field How to apply? If you feel your expertise is suited to this role, please apply today and our specialist team will be in touch to discuss it with you

Job Title: Speech and Language Therapist Location: Telford, Shropshire Banding: Band 6 or Band 7 Start: ASAP Duration: 3 to 6 months Rate: £20 - £30 per hour Working hours: Full time & Part time What will your responsibilities be: The Speech and Language Therapist will be responsible for conducting assessments, developing and implementing therapy plans, and monitoring progress. This role includes collaborating with families, educators, and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive support. The therapist will also be involved in maintaining accurate records, participating in multidisciplinary meetings, and staying updated with best practices in speech and language therapy. Qualifications and Experience: Relevant registration with a professional body (e.g., HCPC) Experience working in a similar post within the NHS Qualified to Master's Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent Strong understanding of speech, language, and communication disorders Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team Proficiency in using therapy platforms and technology Commitment to continuous professional development and staying updated with the latest research and best practices in the field How to apply? If you feel your expertise is suited to this role, please apply today and our specialist team will be in touch to discuss it with you in more detail. Why work with Pulse? From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out. Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of the way to secure the perfect placement. With our preferred or sole supplier status with many clients, you’ll have access to exclusive opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else. We always prior