Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team. Responsibilities: Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition including web crawling, data ingestion, and search. Collaborate with other sub-teams, such as Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure smooth data flow and system operability. Work closely with the legal team to handle any compliance or data privacy-related matters. Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data. Architect and implement algorithms for data indexing and search capabilities. Build and maintain backend services for data storage, including work with key-value databases and synchronization. Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks. Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights into system performance. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in software development. Experience with large web crawlers a plus Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing. Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies. Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an
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About Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives. About Role We are looking for an Operations Program Manager - Robotics Data Acquisition to own the day-to-day operating rhythm in our data collection facilities. You will work closely with operators, technicians, program managers, and engineers to keep rigs ready, campaigns moving, issues resolved, and performance improving. This is a hands-on operations role that requires you to be comfortable spending time on the floor, working through ambiguity, and using data to make the operation more reliable and efficient. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 5 days a week. In this role you will: Coordinate daily operations readiness across workstations, operators, materials. Track core operating metrics including utilization, cycle time, throughput, downtime, operator productivity, and data quality. Identify bottlenecks through workflow analysis, time studies, and capacity modeling, then drive practical fixes. Execute the rollout of new hardware, sensors, tools, and process changes with Engineering, Operations, Facilities, Supply Chain, and Safety. Identify equipment readiness issues and coordinate with technical support to keep workstations, and test equipment calibrated, configured, maintained, and ready for rollouts and evaluations. Lead root cause analysis for recurring operational issues and follow through on corrective actions. Provide operation input to create and maintain SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and process controls. Identify and flag resource constraints and manage issue escala
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
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team The Fraud Partnerships Pod is responsible for overseeing all traditional business development and partnerships for the Anti-Fraud Product Area (PA) at Plaid, focusing primarily on our product partnerships and data acquisition (supply side) efforts. The team supports all products under the Fraud Product Area's purview: IDV, Monitor, Layer, and Protect. About the Role You will have an opportunity to lead the strategy and execution of our supply side and "data in" efforts for our Fraud product area across four products (Plaid IDV, Monitor, Layer, and Protect). You will own all critical data partner relationship management with key stakeholders and be expected to grow them over time. You will be the internal quarterback driving alignment with key major internal stakeholders at Plaid, including Finance, BizOps, Commercial, Legal, and Risk. What You'll Do Spend the majority of your time working hand in hand with product leadership as well as other cross-functional leaders to operationalize our data partners for all fraud products at Plaid. Help our data science and research teams define the source data ecosystem for IDV and Protect according to our 3-year strategy. Help e
About the Role OpenAI's ads platform is experiencing rapid global scale. As the Lead Data Scientist for SMB Ads Growth, you will architect the analytics function end-to-end—driving strategy across targeting, funnel optimization, and performance forecasting. You will work directly with the SMB Ads Marketing team and your insights will be the primary catalyst for high-stakes decisions across marketing, product, and sales engineering. What You'll Do Full-Funnel Analytics Establish the foundational growth metrics and North Star KPIs for the SMB Ads ecosystem, optimizing the journey from lead acquisition to long-term retention. Diagnose funnel friction points through advanced behavioral analysis and quantify the incremental revenue impact of proposed optimizations. Partner cross-functionally to transform complex data findings into actionable, high-priority roadmaps for product and marketing stakeholders. Targeting, Segmentation & Propensity Modeling Engineer sophisticated propensity models and look-alike frameworks to identify and capture high-LTV SMB advertisers. Own the lifecycle of target list construction, including advanced data enrichment, multi-dimensional prioritization, and granular performance tracking. Develop robust segmentation architectures that power hyper-personalized outreach across paid, partnership, and outsourced (BPO) channels. Synthesize market signals to refine our value proposition, ensuring OpenAI remains a key platform for SMB business growth. Campaign Analytics & Measurement Design and implement rigorous multi-touch attribution and incrementality frameworks to evaluate channel efficacy. Lead the experimental roadmap: formulate hypotheses, execute A/B and multivariate tests, and communicate results to executive leadership. Automate business-critical reporting and dashboards to provide real-time visibility during weekly operating reviews. Forecasting & Planning Build high-fidelity revenue and advertiser growth models to project perfor
Job Description: Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement About the Role We are hiring a Data Scientist to lead measurement, experimentation, and decision science for B2B marketing demand generation. You will help us understand which marketing investments create incremental demand, qualified pipeline, and revenue and how to scale them efficiently. Our mandate is to build a rigorous, full-funnel view of how B2B marketing creates demand and moves prospects from awareness and engagement to qualified opportunities, closed-won revenue, and expansion. You will shape how we measure marketing impact and influence across channels, campaigns, audiences, and account segments. In this role, you will partner closely with B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, Growth, Sales, RevOps, Finance to connect marketing activity to qualified pipeline, customer acquisition, and efficient revenue growth. What You’ll Do Define north-star, leading, and guardrail metrics for B2B demand generation, including account engagement, qualified leads and opportunities, sourced and influenced pipeline, conversion rates, pipeline velocity, and incremental ARR. Design and execute measurement and experimentation strategies across channels and campaigns, using randomized tests, audience or geographic holdouts, lift studies, quasi-experimental methods, and other causal approaches suited to long B2B sales cycles. Analyze channel, audience, campaign, creative, content, landing-page, and account-segment performance to identify the drivers of qualified demand, funnel conversion, pipeline quality, and incremental revenue. Partner with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, Finance, Product, and Engineering to improve instrumentation, campaign taxonomy, CRM data quality, lead-to-account matching, and the operating cadence for acting on measurement insights. Build AI-native measurement and decision-support workflows, using LLMs and agents to synthesize campaign performance, surface growth opportunities, and h
About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a Lifecycle Lead to build the company-wide owned-channel capability that helps teams reach users with relevant, timely, and trustworthy experiences. This senior, hands-on leader will set the lifecycle strategy, partner with Engineering to build the orchestration and deployment platform, and establish the operating model that allows teams across the company to launch and improve evergreen programs safely at scale. You will sit at the intersection of platform, product, and campaign strategy. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics on the underlying systems, and with Product Marketing Managers and other client teams to design journeys that help new, active, and returning users reach value and build durable habits. In this role, you will: Partner with product to set the company-wide vision, roadmap, and operating model for lifecycle and owned-channel engagement. Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics to shape the tooling and infrastructure for identity, audiences, eligibility, consent, triggers, orchestration, decisioning, frequency, experimentation, localization, quality assurance, and observability. Define scalable deployment workflows—including self-service and centrally supported paths, intake, templates, approvals, governance, service levels, and incident response—so teams across the company can launch safely and efficiently. Partner with Product Marketing Managers and other client teams to translate audience, product, and business goals into evergreen journey stra
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role The SMB Innovation Sales & Strategy Lead will identify, incubate and scale new revenue opportunities across OpenAI’s SMB Ads business. This foundational role combines strategic thinking, analytical rigor and hands-on execution to develop differentiated customer propositions, validate product opportunities and launch new go-to-market programs. Working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Data Science, this person will lead initiatives from opportunity assessment through customer discovery, commercial pilots and transition to scale. The remit includes industry-specific opportunities, differentiated customer engagement models and innovative approaches across self-serve, sales-assisted and partner-led channels. The lead will also partner with SMB leadership and the Strategy & Operations team to inform the overall SMB strategy, contributing customer segmentation, commercial insights and evidence from incubation programs to broader planning and investment decisions. In This Role, You Will Identify untapped opportunities across SMB segments, industries, and channels. Build business cases and launch pilots to validate customer demand and commercial potential. Design new acquisition, activation, and expansion programs, including industry-speci
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Global Business Recruiting organization at Pinterest is looking for a Recruiting Manager to lead a group of skilled Recruiters and Sourcers in hiring business talent, including, but not limited to, CFO org, Legal and Business Affairs and People team requisitions. Our strength as a recruiting team lies in our ability to understand the needs of the business and build and scale teams, and hire a diverse group of individuals who collectively make up our unique and inspiring culture. In this role, you’ll be the main point of contact for all levels of hiring managers, Executives, HR Business Partners, and cross-functional partners, as you lead your team to hire high volumes of corporate professionals and supporting functions. You'll use data, creativity, and strong partnerships to create targeted recruiting strategies and partne
About the Team OpenAI’s acquisition of io marks our entry into consumer hardware and our ambition to define the next human–computer interface. Success in hardware requires strong financial stewardship across the full product cost stack—from early design and sourcing decisions through manufacturing, logistics, inventory, returns, and warranty. Hardware Finance works across Product, Supply Chain, Operations, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance to connect business decisions to product cost, inventory, cash, COGS, and margin. About the Role We are seeking a Hardware Finance Manager to own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end. The initial assignment will depend on business priorities and the successful candidate’s expertise. It may include BOM and product cost, manufacturing variance analysis, inventory planning, logistics, returns and warranty, customer support, or another connected set of hardware-finance responsibilities. This is an individual-contributor role with broad scope. Prior hardware experience and deep, hands-on expertise in at least two relevant domains are required. The person will be expected to operate independently, build reusable processes and analytical workflows, and remain accountable for the analysis, judgment, and recommendations. In this role, you will: Own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end. Own forecasting, close, and business variance analysis for the assigned scope. Provide hardware leadership with clear variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking signals that connect business and supplier decisions to inventory, cash, COGS, and margin. Partner with business teams and Finance Platforms to establish the financial data, systems, and dashboards needed to support analysis. Ensure data integrity and governance through clear definitions, ownership, validation checks, controls, and review processes. Improve forecasting, reporting, systems, and finance processes so they remain reliable an
About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a B2B Paid Marketing leader to own and scale global acquisition across channels, including Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and emerging channels. This leader will define channel strategy across self-serve and sales-assisted journeys, develop programs for distinct business segments, and own measurable impact from demand creation through customer growth. You will partner closely with Sales, GTM, product marketing, lifecycle, product, engineering, data science, finance, design, and marketing operations to connect paid campaigns to the right buying journeys. This team thrives on rapid iteration, rigorous measurement, and close feedback loops that improve lead and account quality, conversion, pipeline, and long-term customer value. In this role, you will: Own global paid channel strategy across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and other channels for B2B audiences, including planning, forecasting, budget pacing, audience design, and performance management. Build and optimize programs across self-serve, product-led, and sales-assisted motions, adapting channel strategy to segment, use case, buyer, and funnel stage. Partner with Sales and GTM teams to align campaigns with revenue priorities, product launches, solution plays, account segments, and regional opportunities. Optimize full-funnel performance from demand capture and qualified leads through activation, pipeline, conversion, expansion, and long-term customer value. Develop B2B audience, offer, and messaging strategies for decision-mak
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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Growth Marketing at Brex Growth Marketing is Brex’s pipeline engine. We own paid acquisition, organic and SEO, lifecycle marketing, events and field marketing, partner marketing, and marketing operations. We carry a number: SQL ARR, bookings, and self-serve activations. Every function on the team is accountable to it. We run lean. We pair small teams with AI and automation instead of scaling headcount. Our marketing ops team uses Claude, Clay, and custom integrations to do work that used to require twice as many people. Our paid team manages eight figures of annual spend with four people. We work closely with sales, SDR leadership, engineering, and design. We own top-of-funnel through meeting creation. We push back when the data says something different than the room expects. And we’re building with startup speed and a much larger balance sheet behind us. What you’ll do Brex’s buyers find and evaluate us acro
About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a B2B Enterprise Paid Marketing leader to build and scale global demand generation across channels, including Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and emerging channels. This leader will define channel strategy for complex enterprise buying journeys, connect paid media to account-based marketing (ABM) programs, and own performance from target-account engagement through pipeline and revenue. You will partner closely with Sales, GTM, field marketing, product marketing, marketing operations, data science, finance, design, and product to translate enterprise priorities into coordinated campaigns. This team combines rigorous measurement with close sales alignment, rapid experimentation, and a deep understanding of buying committees, long sales cycles, and regional enterprise needs. In this role, you will: Own global paid channel strategy across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and other channels for enterprise audiences, including planning, forecasting, budget pacing, audience design, and performance management. Build and scale ABM programs across priority accounts and segments, coordinating paid media with sales outreach, field marketing, executive engagement, events, and lifecycle programs. Partner with Sales and GTM leadership to align investment with account priorities, territories, pipeline goals, and product or solution plays. Optimize performance across the enterprise funnel, from account engagement and qualified demand through opportunities, pipeline, and revenue, with clear attribution
About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a Consumer Paid Marketing leader to own and scale global acquisition across channels, including Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and emerging channels. This leader will define channel strategy, oversee execution at significant scale, and grow a broad consumer product across diverse audiences, use cases, and international markets. You will partner closely with product, engineering, data science, finance, design, brand, creative, lifecycle, and regional marketing to connect paid experiences to in-product journeys. This team combines rapid iteration, rigorous measurement, consumer insight, and culturally relevant creative to drive acquisition, activation, retention, and long-term user value worldwide. In this role, you will: Own global paid channel strategy across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and other channels for a scaled consumer product, including planning, forecasting, budget pacing, audience strategy, and performance management. Manage significant investment across a broad international portfolio, balancing global consistency with market-level opportunity, platform dynamics, and cultural nuance. Optimize the full consumer journey from acquisition through activation, engagement, retention, and monetization, with a focus on durable unit economics and cohort quality. Develop audience, use-case, offer, and creative strategies that reach diverse consumer segments and translate across languages, cultures, and stages of product maturity. Partner with regional marketing and localization
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are seeking a Lifecycle Marketing Manager to build, own, and lead lifecycle programs for SMB advertisers at OpenAI. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to establish the strategy and programs that guide businesses from initial interest and their first campaign to sustained success and growth. You will set the lifecycle strategy, own the program roadmap and performance goals, and lead delivery from customer insight and journey design through launch, measurement, and iteration. Combining behavioral insights, experimentation, and personalized engagement across email, product experiences, education, and other channels, you will build programs that scale with the business. Success requires independent judgment, analytical depth, cross-functional leadership, and hands-on execution. In This Role, You Will Own the lifecycle program portfolio across prospect conversion, activation, retention, repeat spend, reactivation, and expansion. Map advertiser journeys using cohort analysis, product behavior, campaign performance, and customer feedback to identify high-impact growth opportunities. Build segmented, triggered journeys that connect advertiser needs, intent, readiness, and behavior to relevant messages and next steps. Lead prospect nurture and email acquisition
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