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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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NVIDIA's Silicon Co-design Group (SCG) sits at a rare intersection: we own the full product development lifecycle, from early architecture definition through silicon bringup to product release. Our ArchDev team is the hub for silicon and system-level feature development, driving tradeoff analysis, system integration, and POR alignment across the entire organization. If you want to see your work go from whiteboard to world-class silicon, this is where that happens. What You'll Be Doing: Architect and integrate system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products . Build feature roadmaps to address low-power, low-noise, and performance-per-watt product needs through prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs. Partner with architecture, ASIC, board/platform, software/firmware, and marketing teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues. Track industry trends and market needs and translate them into forward-looking roadmaps that keep NVIDIA's products ahead of the curve. Lead debug efforts, develop workarounds, and support bringup , validation, manufacturing, and customer escalations. What We Need to See: <

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States
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$100K – $500K/yr

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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Tenstorrent is looking for a mid- to senior-level Physical Design Engineer who will contribute to the physical design of high-performance chips for industry-leading AI/ML architectures, spanning implementation from synthesis through tapeout. You will partner with front-end and physical design engineers to optimize floorplanning, timing, power, performance, and area across multiple IPs. Along the way, you will build end-to-end ASIC expertise while learning from experienced engineers across the chip development process. This role is hybrid , based out of Austin, TX, Fort Collins, CO, or Santa Clara, CA . We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are An engineer excited to work on high-performance designs for industry-leading AI/ML architectures. A collaborative problem solver who enjoys working with experienced engineers across ASIC disciplines. Grounded in logic design fundamentals and gate- and transistor-level implementation. Curious about how early architectural and RTL decisions shape physical implementation and final chip quality. What We Need A BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a relat

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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C$100K – C$500K/yr

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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Tenstorrent is seeking an Physical Design Engineer to lead cross-functional efforts to solve complex physical design challenges and develop end-to-end RTL-to-GDS methodologies across advanced nodes, with a strong focus on PPA and runtime improvements. The engineer will architect, integrate, and deploy AI/ML-driven solutions into production physical design flows, creating custom CAD tools and partnering with internal teams and EDA vendors to drive next-generation, ML-enabled capabilities. This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX or Fort Collins, CO. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who you are BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years in Physical Design CAD methodology at advanced nodes. Proven track record improving PPA and/or runtime on high-performance, low-power taped-out designs. Hands-on with industry-standard EDA tools (e.g., Fusion Compiler) across synthesis, P&R, STA, signoff, and hierarchical flows. Strong Python/Tcl and data skills, with interest or experience in ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and the ability to drive complex projects independent

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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C$100K – C$500K/yr

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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are looking for a talented engineer to join our CPU design team and lead the front-end RTL physical implementation team. Drive CAD flows on multiple process technologies while working closely with core micro-architects to refine CPU core configurations and optimizing PPA. You’ll work on a CPU based on RISC-V ISA, collaborating with DV, PD, RTL and performance teams to deliver a functional, timing, and power-converged design. This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are An expert in physical design practices used to optimize PPA Experienced in high-performance physical design. Proficient in RTL coding (Verilog/VHDL) and familiar with industry-standard tools for simulation and power analysis. Skilled in synthesis, place and route tools including flows and physical design methodology. Background in CPU micro-architecture. What We Need Own front‑end physical implementation and PPA definition for a high‑performance RISC‑V CPU and CPU subsystem Work closely with microarchitects and RTL designers to “make the IP better” by optimizing frequency, power, and area

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Tenstorrent builds AI and RISC-V compute hardware that requires best-in-class design tools and intellectual property to compete globally. The Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager, Engineering Infrastructure leads procurement strategy for the design ecosystem, owning vendor negotiations, IP licensing agreements, and tool sourcing that enable our worldwide engineering teams to innovate at speed. The role suits someone who takes ownership of complex, multidimensional deals, operates independently with minimal oversight, and commands credibility with vendor executives, internal stakeholders, and the C-suite. This role is hybrid or remote, based out of Santa Clara, CA; Austin, TX or Toronto, ON. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are A strategic negotiator with 5+ years of experience sourcing complex technology (IP, design tools, or semiconductor components) in fast-paced environments Someone who builds trust-based vendor relationships and leverages them to unlock better terms, faster delivery, and innovative solutions A detail-oriented operator who thrives managing multiple concurrent deals while maintaining executive visibility and cross-func

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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

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📍 San Francisco, United States· Remote
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About Mixpanel Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com . About the Team Our Total Rewards team designs and runs the benefits programs that support Mixpanel employees around the world. We work closely with People, Finance, Legal, and regional teams to build programs that are fair, competitive, and easy to understand, because how we take care of our people is part of how we build trust across the company. About the Role As our Global Benefits Manager, you'll own how Mixpanel designs, delivers, and governs benefits programs across every country we operate in. You'll work independently on ambiguous, cross-functional problems, like a new country launch, a plan redesign, or an M&A integration, and turn them into clear, workable plans. People across HR, Finance, Legal, and regional teams will look to you as the person who understands both the details and the bigger picture of how benefits decisions affect our people and our business. This role doesn't manage people directly, but it does lead initiatives that span multiple functions and calls for confidence making decisions without a fully defined brief. Responsibilities Lead the design and ongoing improvement of health, retirement, wellness, and leave programs across multiple countries, balancing local requirements with one consistent philosophy. Scope and lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives, such as country expansions, M&A integrations, and plan redesigns, by defining the problem, identifying the right stakeholders, and choosing an approach without a fully written brief. Own vendor and broker relationships globally, including renewal negotiations, and hold partners accountable to cost and service co

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $500K/yr

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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are looking for a talented engineer to join our CPU design team to drive infrastructure for performance analysis, correlation and verification. You’ll work on a CPU based on RISC-V ISA, collaborating with core architects and RTL teams to deliver a highly efficient and performant design. This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA. We welcome candidates at various experience levels. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are Strong problem solver who can identify complex issues, develop practical solutions, and drive them through implementation. Enjoy building tools and improving the infrastructure, workflows, and methodologies that make CPU development more efficient. Skilled in C++ and Python, with experience using industry-standard compilation, simulation, and emulation tools. Experience with verification infrastructure and methodologies along with knowledge of high-performance CPU architecture and microarchitecture. Proficient in debugging RTL and logic across multiple design hierarchies and pre-silicon environments. What We Need Join a team driving improvements in CPU microarchitecture, verifying performance, and correlating results between RTL and the performance mode

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems. In this role, you'll apply deep technical expertise to optimize infrastructure and application-level performance across mission-critical products like ChatGPT and our developer API. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams building core services, training models, and developing real-time user experiences to push our latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency to the next level. We are looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguous environments, value deep systems understanding, and are motivated by delivering measurable impact. This is a highly technical, individual contributor role focused on root-cause analysis, profiling, instrumentation, and architecture-level performance improvements across our stack. In this role, you will: Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers—networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond. Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance. Collaborate closely with infra, platform, training, and product teams to identify key performance goals and drive systemic improvements. Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale. Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production. Drive performance testing strategies and help define SLAs/SLOs around latency and throughput for critical systems. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong tr

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -8%

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can address, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. Make the choice to join us today. Design-for-X Engineering at NVIDIA works on groundbreaking innovations involving crafting creative solutions in AI for Chip Design and AI for Predictions in various use cases in manufacturing testing on some of the industry's most complex semiconductor chips. What you'll be doing: As a senior member in our team, you will work on innovating in the DFT Power, Thermal & Voltage Noise Methodology areas. This will include working on groundbreaking low power & thermal solutions for our manufacturing tests to be enabled at conditions that push the boundaries for our datacenter GPUs. You will work with multi-functional teams including Product Development & Power Architecture, implementing brand-new methodologies on hard-to-solve problems for improving our outgoing quality of chips. You will work on post-silicon data analysis for power to architect the next-gen solutions. In addition, you will help develop and deploy DFT methodologies for our next generation products using Applied ML & Gen AI solutions. You will also help mentor junior engineers on test designs and trade-offs including cost and quality. What we need to see: BSEE (or equ

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📍 Berkeley, United States
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Air Proprietary Tooling Engineer (Entry-Level or Associate) Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) team is seeking motivated Tooling Engineers located in Berkeley, MO . This role will support design, development, installation, and sustainment of production tooling and assembly aids used across manufacturing and maintenance programs. The role partners with manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and design engineering to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective tooling solutions that enable efficient production. At The Boeing Company, our mission is to connect, protect, and explore our world and beyond. Position Responsibilities Develop and qualify production tooling, jigs, fixtures, and assembly aids from concept through production release Translate manufacturing and design requirements into tooling specifications, drawings, 3D CAD models, and bill of materials Perform tolerance stack-up, fit checks, and tooling validation through analysis, prototyping, and hands-on trials Support tooling fabrication and inspection, including supplier management, fabrication oversight, and acceptance criteria verification Lead root-cause analyses for tooling-related manufacturing issues and implement corrective actions and continuous improvement Create and maintain tooling documentation: process plans, safety assessments, work instructions, inspection plans, and change records Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams—manufacturing, quality, stress, systems, and supply chain—to ensure tooling meets program schedule, safety, and quality goals Ensure compliance with company and regulatory standards, maintain configuration control and toolin

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📍 Boise, ID - ID1, United States
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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. Micron’s Boise site is undergoing a historic $15 billion investment in semiconductor manufacturing, with DRAM production planned for the second half of the decade. As part of Micron’s global $150 billion expansion, our High Volume Manufacturing team drives innovation and operational excellence to deliver world-class memory solutions. As an ID1 High Volume Manufacturing Process Engineer Intern , you will work on process optimization, yield improvement, and cost reduction initiatives. This role involves collaborating with equipment teams, operations leaders, and multi-functional collaborators to ensure area critical metrics are met and wafer output is optimized. Responsibilities Finish the required safety training and adhere to safety policies and laws. Ensure proper tool documentation and update reaction mechanisms as needed. Supervise and resolve issues impacting yield, excursions, defects, or output loss. Apply SPC, FDC, and 8D methodologies to optimize processes and improve tool availability. Analyze data using engineering knowledge and visualization tools to make critical process decisions. Perform project work to optimize wafer processing and increase wafer outs. Update or create procedures to align with area and global practices. Minimum Qualifications Current student in an engineering or related degree program; graduation date not before September 2027. Understanding of SPC and Design of Experiments. Prof

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📍 New York City, New York, United States· Full-time
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About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: Join a team that builds robust, real-time distributed systems for a cutting-edge database. We care about performance, reliability, scalability, and most of all learning and having fun together. Whether you’re a seasoned coder or just getting started, if you’re passionate about technology and eager to learn, you’ll fit right in. Who we are: We show up to work, ready to collaborate and build technologies that make a difference, with people who genuinely care. We chase improvements such as tail latencies, bytes throughput, cache hit rate, and operational cost efficiency. We believe learning is ongoing and that even the most complex problems can have simple solutions. What You’ll Do: Collaborate with teammates to design and build database features that power AI applications. Learn how to tune performance and support reliability in distributed systems (don’t worry, we’ll guide you). Help Pinecone run smoothly on popular cloud providers. Take ownership of your work and grow your skills every day. Have fun. Who You Are: 5+ years of work experience - programming in Rust, Go, C++, or a comparable language. You’re genuinely curious about distributed systems and eager to dive deep into technical challenges. You approach problems with creativity and persistence, and you’re comfortable asking thoughtful questions or seeking feedback. You’re excited to learn, value constructive feedback, and appreciate mentorship. Bonus Points: You have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or have demonstrated an ability to pick u

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Remote
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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 . Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Manager to lead our Capacity Engineering team. The team ensures that Pinterest’s cloud infrastructure has the capacity it needs while operating reliably, efficiently and with clear financial accountability. You’ll lead the full portfolio across forecasting and supply, capacity-management systems, compute and GPU efficiency, infrastructure data and governance and capacity operations. What you’ll do: Lead the Capacity Engineering team and establish its 12–18 month functional and technical strategy, roadmap and success measures tied to Infrastructure and company goals. Develop CPU and GPU forecasts and supply plans that account for workload demand, delivery constraints, cost and reliability requirements. Guide the design and delivery of capacity requests, reservations, entitlements, allocation policy and infra

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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About DevRev At DevRev, we're building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate. Unlike traditional tools, Computer unifies all your data sources, tools, and workflows into a single AI-ready platform, giving employees real-time insights, proactive suggestions, and powerful agentic actions. It extends your existing software with AI-native apps and agents that work alongside your teams and customers – updating workflows, coordinating across teams, and eliminating repetitive work. We call this Team Intelligence: human-AI collaboration that breaks down silos, brings people back together, and frees you to solve bigger problems. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield with $150M+ raised, DevRev is trusted by global companies across industries. About the role We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build and evolve the data platform that powers critical business decisions and customer-facing experiences. You will own significant parts of our data architecture that is main powerhouse of DevRev Computer’s memory for accurate and efficient Answers. As a part of data team, you will design and operate scalable data systems, and work closely with Software Engineering, AI Agent teams, Data Science, and Product teams to turn complex data requirements into reliable, high-quality data products. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving challenging problems involving large-scale data, distributed systems, database architecture, and performance optimization. You will have significant technical ownership and the opportunity to influence the direction of our agentic data platform while helping raise the engineering bar across the team. Responsibilities Own data architecture for large-scale, high-impact projects, making thoughtful tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational cost. Design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and data systems that reliably ingest, transform, store, and serv

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