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📍 Massachusetts, Cambridge, United States
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$99.2K – $165.4K/yr

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Why Patients Need You Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world. What You Will Achieve As part of the Comparative Medicine team, you will support the Research & Development site by managing a vivarium to deliver flawless animal care and welfare and will assure the quality of care and the animal facility environment is in compliance with local regulations and AAALAC International guidelines partnering with Research and Development Research Units and Partner lines to facilitate study support. It is your hard work along with innovative ideas and focus that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe. How You Will Achieve It Assure that the care and welfare of laboratory animals is provided in compliance with local regulations and AAALAC International guidelines. Manage and engage animal care and technical staff in the pursuit of flawless animal care and welfare by ensuring adherence to established policies and procedures. Support the career and personal development of the animal care and technical staff. Assist with a centralized CM training program for research animal care and use for animal care staff, principal investigators and research technicians throughout WRD. Participate in the direction of a centralized CM program of occup

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📍 Work At Home Connecticut, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. CVS Health is seeking an SDET Manager to lead Quality Engineering and software delivery transformation across the Medicare Sales & Acquisition ecosystem. This role is critical to modernizing how we build, test, and deliver software, including embedding AI-driven capabilities into the SDLC. You will translate business workflows (Sales, Enrollment, Broker, and Telesales) into scalable, automated testing solutions that improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving test automation strategy, enabling intelligent SDLC pipelines, and building a high-performing engineering team aligned to enterprise goals. This role will also help shape the team's transition toward AWS-native test infrastructure and agent-orchestrated cycles, positioning the organization to scale automation alongside delivery volume in future years. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of AI-augmented Quality Engineering solutions — including agentic test generation, self-healing frameworks, and AI-assisted defect analysis — advancing the SDLC toward an AI-driven Automated Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) Drive the migration of automation frameworks and test data management onto AWS-native services (e.g., Bedrock for model orchestration, Lambda/Step Functions for event-driven test pipelines), enabling

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📍 Work At Home Illinois, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. CVS Health is seeking an SDET Manager to lead Quality Engineering and software delivery transformation across the Medicare Sales & Acquisition ecosystem. This role is critical to modernizing how we build, test, and deliver software, including embedding AI-driven capabilities into the SDLC. You will translate business workflows (Sales, Enrollment, Broker, and Telesales) into scalable, automated testing solutions that improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving test automation strategy, enabling intelligent SDLC pipelines, and building a high-performing engineering team aligned to enterprise goals. This role will also help shape the team's transition toward AWS-native test infrastructure and agent-orchestrated cycles, positioning the organization to scale automation alongside delivery volume in future years. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of AI-augmented Quality Engineering solutions — including agentic test generation, self-healing frameworks, and AI-assisted defect analysis — advancing the SDLC toward an AI-driven Automated Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) Drive the migration of automation frameworks and test data management onto AWS-native services (e.g., Bedrock for model orchestration, Lambda/Step Functions for event-driven test pipelines), enabling

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📍 Texas, United States of America, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -5.2%

$116.2K – $182.4K/yr

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Firmware Engineer BIOS/UEFI Description - The Firmware Engineer is responsible for ensuring that embedded firmware meets the highest standards of quality, robustness, and long‑term reliability. This role works closely with firmware developers, hardware engineers, architecture teams, QA, and cross‑functional partners to define quality metrics, validate system behavior, improve defect detection, and build processes that prevent regressions. Responsibilities Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive firmware test plans, including functional, regression, stress, corner-case, and long-duration reliability tests. • • • Evaluates the firmware architecture, design and development plus testing methodologies to create strategy and implement methods to bring increased quality and reliability to the firmware. Reviews firmware code and test plans including functional, regression, stress, corner-case and long-duration reliability tests. Perform root-cause analysis for firmware defects, drive containment, corrective actions, and verification of fixes. Create and manage quality dashboards, KPI, failure rates, and reliability metrics. Evaluate failure modes exposed during design, development, manufacturing and field use; propose design or process improvements to prevent recurrence. Works with product architects, firmware teams, product managers and provides critical guidance, system-level debugging and troubleshooting to various teams, as a Subject Matter Expert. Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk. Create and manage quality dashboards , KPIs, failure rates, and reliability metrics. Validate firmware integration with hardware, BIOS/UEFI, EC, micro

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📍 United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community The Actuarial Analyst 2, Analytics/Forecasting supports value-based initiatives within the HealthCare Economics team, partnering across actuarial, finance, analytics, and business teams to develop actionable financial insights and forecasting solutions. This role will play a key part in the design and development of a holistic modeling solution, building new methodologies and frameworks from the ground up to support performance measurement, financial reconciliation, and strategic decision-making across multiple value-based care programs. You work assignments are varied and frequently require interpretation of complex business issues, independent judgment, and the ability to recommend and execute appropriate courses of action with limited guidance. The Actuarial Analyst 2, Analytics/Forecasting will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting claims and revenue trends, developing innovative forecasting methodologies, and translating complex business requirements into scalable analytical solutions. This individual must be able to independently evaluate data, identify gaps, propose holistic approaches, and develop end-to-end solutions that integrate financial, operational, and claims-based insights. Responsibilities include designing forecasting methodologies, establishing reporting metrics, validating model results, and supporting the evolution of value-based care analytics. You will understand department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, including their linkages to related areas. You will make decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations, and requires minimal direction and receives guidance where needed. Use your skills to make an impact Required Qualifications Bachelor's Degree Successful completion of

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -13.7%

NVIDIA is a global leader in high-speed computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), and deep learning. Our team develops data engineering solutions that empower AI developers in autonomous vehicle (AV) domains to innovate quickly and effectively at scale. Are you ready to take on a senior technical role in building high-performance AI data pipelines? We seek an exceptional individual to design and optimize microservices and data pipelines to process massive volumes of AV data and enable seamless data mining and AI training. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in big data processing and distributed computing to create efficient solutions and overarching architectures for challenges such as video data curation, behavioral search, and AI dataset management. What you'll be doing: Scope and build tools, microservices, workflows, and distributed applications to accelerate data mining and AI training. Design and implement solutions for streaming, resilience, logging, security, authentication, workflow orchestration, and data management. Deploy AI models. Design and develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows enabling hybrid and agentic patterns. Analyze and operationalize complex distributed systems for speed-of-light performance. What we need to see: Experience developing high-performance, scalable software systems. MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Strong programming skills in Python or Golang Proficiency in key technologies like Kubernetes, Helm, Hive, Parquet, SQL, vector databases, e.g., Milvus. Strong architectural skills with a proactive, problem-solving mentality. Experience in data mi

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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At NVIDIA, we push the boundaries of computing innovation. Our ASIC Verification Engineers focus on developing the world’s top SoCs and GPUs. Joining us as a Senior ASIC Verification Engineer - GPU means working on modern technology powering consumer graphics and AI applications. This position is ideal for those passionate about technology and eager to impact computing’s future. What you'll be doing: As a key member of our ASIC Verification team, you will verify the design and implementation of the industry's leading GPUs. You will be responsible for verifying the ASIC build, architecture, golden models, and micro-architecture using advanced verification methodologies such as UVM or equivalent. Understand the design and implementation of your unit/cluster/chip, define the verification scope, develop the verification infrastructure, and verify the correctness of the design. Collaborate with architects, designers, and pre- and post-silicon verification teams to accomplish your task. What we need to see: Bachelor's Degree in EE, CS, or CE or equivalent experience. 5+ years of relevant experience. Experience in verification using random stimulus along with functional coverage and assertion-based verification methodologies. Experience with design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent simulation tools, debug tools like Verdi, Indago, GDB). Expertise in System Verilog or similar HVL. Strong debugging and analytical skills. Perl and C/C++ programming language experience desirable. Strong communication skills and the ability & desire to work as a great teammate are huge pluses. Experience in crafting test bench environments for unit and system level verification. #LI-Hybrid Your base salary will be det

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📍 Austin, TX, United States
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$100.2K – $148.3K/yr

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Level Up Your Career with Zynga! At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition. From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more! Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level. Join us and be part of the play! Position Overview: Zynga is looking for an experienced Senior Game Designer to work on one of our new mobile games. This role leads and participates in direct design and creative input on content and event design in the game. What You'll Do: Design theming and content for new events in the game Implement new content and events on a cadence Create flexible sheets and models to balance cadenced events Own, drive, and collaborate with other disciplines for Live Ops development Analyze real-time feedback and metrics, and adjust designs accordingly while maintaining live game balance Design and improve tools to make the design pipeline faster and more efficient for the team Be the advocate of good event design on the team Design new event types for the game Work closely with other disciplines to design and prototype

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📍 New, Albuquerque, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +116%

Job Details: Job Description: Note: This role requires regular onsite presence to perform essential job responsibilities. This position drives technology development and enablement for both high-volume manufacturing and future process technologies. Responsibilities include providing process integration and equipment solutions, conducting feasibility studies to meet device performance requirements, and leading the design and development of advanced manufacturing processes. The role involves material selection, parameter optimization, metrology, equipment engineering, and system design to enable new product architectures and functional requirements. The successful candidate will lead pathfinding activities that support process and hardware development for next-generation manufacturing technologies and will contribute to technology roadmaps that enable future product innovation. The role also includes identifying and implementing equipment and process improvements to enhance manufacturing efficiency, optimize production output, and improve operational performance. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related STEM field, with 6+ years of semiconductor industry experience , primarily in dry etch process development. Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related STEM field, with 9+ years of semiconductor industry experience , primarily in dry etch process development. 3+ years of experience collaborating with equipment suppliers (e.g., Lam Research, TEL, Applied Materials, Hit

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📍 Hampton, Vatican City State (holy See), United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +400%

The Defense Sector at Leidos is seeking a motivated TS/SCI cleared Network Administrator to support the installation, configuration, and day-to-day management of enterprise network infrastructure. This role is an excellent opportunity for an early-career network professional to gain hands-on experience with routing and switching platforms, including Session Smart Router (SSR) / 128 Technology SD-WAN solutions, in a structured and security-conscious environment. The ideal candidate demonstrates a solid foundation in networking fundamentals, a willingness to learn vendor-specific technologies, and the discipline to operate within DoD network standards. The job duties will be performed daily on site at Langley Air Force Base, VA. ​ Roles and Responsibilities: ​Assist in the configuration, deployment, and ongoing management of routers, switches, and Session Smart Router (SSR) appliances across enterprise and edge network environments. ​Support the design and implementation of routing policies, service policies, and traffic steering configurations on SSR/128 Technology platforms under senior engineer guidance. ​Perform LAN switching administration — including VLAN configuration, spanning tree, trunking, and port security — on Juniper EX Series and/or Cisco Catalyst platforms. ​Assist with the configuration and troubleshooting of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP (eBGP and iBGP) across enterprise WAN and data center environments. ​Monitor network health, availability, latency, and throughput using network management tools; escalate anomalies and assist in root cause analysis. ​Support configuration and maintenance of firewall rules, access control lists (ACLs), IPsec VPN tunnels, and other network security controls. ​Execute software and firmware upgrades, patch management, and lifecycle maintenance activiti

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📍 Hazelwood, Macau S.a.r., United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -20.1%

Quality Engineer (Associate or Experienced) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for an Quality Engineer (Associate or Experienced) to join the Quality Fabrication team in Hazelwood, MO! This position supports the production line by leading root cause investigations and corrective actions for nonconformances (NCRs), performing line stock checks and data analytics to identify trends, and presenting to stakeholders. The role works closely with production, quality, supply chain and engineering to ensure timely containment and permanent corrective actions that reduce recurrence and improve process capability. Position Responsibilities: Researches contractual and Boeing Quality Management System requirements for applicability to specific proposals and program processes and documentation. Develops sections of quality metrics, design and production certification plans to ensure compliance with contractual, Company and regulatory requirements. Analyzes capability assessments to support supplier selection activities. Participates in various reviews to ensure quality attributes are incorporated into product designs. Performs data analysis to ensure manufacturing and test readiness. Provides material review dispositions for non-conformances. Analyzes non-conformance trends to evaluate effectiveness of corrective actions. Compiles performance reports and other statistical data to ensure specified processes capability levels are achieved. Works under general supervision. Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): Bachelor of Science from an accredited course of study

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📍 Berkeley, Macau S.a.r., United States
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Human Engineering Manager Company: The Boeing Company Are you ready to join a team of innovators, strategic disruptors, and dreamers who dare to redefine the future of the defense industry? Are you driven to create the unimaginable? Are you passionate about addressing human performance within the design and development of cutting-edge aerospace systems? Boeing Defense Space and Security is seeking innovative and intrinsically motivated Human Engineering Manager to join our Air Dominance team in St Louis, MO . The Air Dominance Human Engineering team innovates and pushes the envelope for what is possible for the next generation of defense capabilities. In this role, you will support the development of state-of-the-art fixed wing tactical aircraft. Manages employees performing engineering and technical activities in the area of Systems Engineering. Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets operational goals. Acquires resources for projects and processes, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements. Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports. Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Manages, develops and motivates employees. Position Responsibilities: Manage, develop, and motivate a team of engineers to deliver Human Engineering solutions in the design, development, production and implementation of Boeing processes and products. Lead a group of ~ 15-20 direct reports. Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with internal and external customers, stakeholders, peers, and direct reports. <l

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📍 Colorado Springs, Colombia, United States
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Human Engineer (Associate or Experienced) Company: The Boeing Company Are you ready to join a team of innovators, strategic disruptors, and dreamers who dare to redefine the future of the defense industry? Are you driven to create the unimaginable? Are you passionate about addressing human performance within the design and development of cutting-edge aerospace systems? Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS ) has an exciting opportunity for an associate or experienced Human Engineer to join our Human Engineering team in Colorado Spings, CO working on the front end of the next generation of Space Mission Systems technology. As a Human Factors Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design, development, and integration of complex aerospace systems, ensuring that all components function cohesively to meet user needs and operational requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including systems engineers, software developers, and hardware specialists, to create systems that are not only technically robust but also intuitive and user-friendly, enhancing overall efficiency and user satisfaction. Position Responsibilities : Apply Human Engineering knowledge and principles to the analysis, design, and evaluation of complex systems Define system performance requirements to ensure safe and successful human operation of physical, functional, and program interfaces for all system operators Apply human performance principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of complex systems Develop and implement research methodologies and analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes Apply a knowledge of military standards (such as MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-1474,

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📍 Texas, United States of America, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -5.2%

Principal Data Privacy Architect Description - Job Summary - Role Purpose • Lead and oversee complex, cross-functional privacy and data protection programs from strategy through implementation, ensuring alignment across business, technical, legal, and compliance stakeholders. • This role will design and implement scalable, AI-ready data privacy architecture across enterprise data environments, applications, and AI-enabled workflows. • The Principal Data Privacy Architect will serve as a hands-on subject matter expert responsible for embedding privacy-by-design, consent enforcement, data sovereignty, data loss prevention, and compliance controls into large, complex global data environments. • The architect will partner closely with Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Legal, Privacy, AI Governance, Product, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure customer, employee, partner, and sensitive enterprise data is accessed, processed, shared, retained, and protected in a compliant, secure, and trustworthy manner. - Why This Role Matters • Architect for Trust & Scale: Build reusable privacy architecture patterns that enable secure, compliant, and scalable data usage across platforms, products, and regions. • Enable Responsible AI: Design privacy guardrails for AI agents, generative AI, RAG pipelines, model inputs and outputs, embeddings, vector stores, and automated data workflows. • Reduce Risk While Enabling Innovation: Translate privacy, consent, regulatory, and data sovereignty obligations into practical engineering controls that accelerate business outcomes. Responsibilities - Think Customer First • Embed customer trust, transparency, and privacy-by-design principles into enterprise data platforms and customer-facing applications. • Design consent-aware data access and usage p

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📍 United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community Humana is seeking a Lead Product Manager, Medication Experience & Pharmacy Solutions to lead the strategy, discovery, delivery, and optimization of digital experiences that help members understand, manage, and maximize the value of their prescription benefits. This highly visible role sits at the intersection of pharmacy, health insurance, member experience, and digital product innovation. The Lead Product Manager will own the product lifecycle end-to-end, from identifying customer and business opportunities through defining features and stories, partnering across Design and Engineering, driving delivery, and measuring outcomes. Success requires strong strategic thinking, customer obsession, analytical rigor, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment. The role directly supports Humana's goals of improving member experience, increasing digital engagement, reducing friction in medication-related journeys, and helping members make informed healthcare decisions. Why Join This Team This role offers a unique opportunity to solve meaningful healthcare problems at scale. You will help millions of members better understand their benefits, manage medications, reduce prescription costs, and make more informed healthcare decisions. Unlike many product organizations, our Product Managers own the entire product lifecycle, providing an uncommon level of ownership, accountability, and impact from strategy through implementation and measurement. Responsibilities Define and execute product strategy, vision, and roadmap for Medication Experience and Pharmacy Solutions Identify member, business, and operational opportunities through research, analytics, VOC, and stakeholder insights Lead product discovery efforts to validate problems, oppor

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