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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. ABOUT THE ROLE: You will work on critical business initiatives in the core database engine, bring an AI-forward approach to software development and accelerate roadmap cycles for the benefit of our customers. Your work will directly impact how developers and businesses build with data. You'll own the full AI engineering lifecycle: design, prompt/tool engineering, evals, deployment, measurement, and optimization. You'll work with a small, high-powered engineering team. What you will do in this role: Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products. Build agentic workflows, coding harnesses, evaluation pipelines. Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, agent teams, and verification/repair. Design evals and hillclimb : create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics. Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infr

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$220K – $288K/yr

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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a Senior Solution Engineer who thrives at the intersection of data, AI, and complex enterprise architecture. In this role you will work directly with the sales team and channel partners to understand the data challenges of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, deliver compelling data-driven demonstrations, and support enterprise Proof of Concepts that showcase measurable business outcomes. As a Snowflake Solution Engineer you must share our passion for transforming how organizations use data — from raw ingestion to real-time analytics to AI-powered applications. You thrive in a dynamic environment, are equally comfortable whiteboarding a medallion architecture with a data engineering team and presenting data ROI to a C-suite, and you bring deep opinions about what good data platform design looks like. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: Present Snowflake's Data Cloud vision to data engineering leaders, analytics teams, data scientists, and executive stakeholders at prospects and customers Lead hands-on technical discovery to map a customer's existing data architecture — pipelines, warehouses, lakehouses, governance gaps — and design a Snowflake-native path forward Build and deliver tailored demos and proof of concepts across Snowfla

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Product Data Science team is looking for a Full-stack Senior Data Scientist to come aboard and be part of Snowflake’s most critical initiatives. In this role, you will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams on everything from core operations, to innovative AI/ML tools, to our fastest-growing new and experimental features. You will work on long-running analytical initiatives yielding substantial product enhancements. This is a strategic, high-impact role that will help shape the future of Snowflake products and services. PLEASE NOTE: The position level is determined during the interview process and is influenced by various factors, including experience, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and overall interview performance. AS A SENIOR FULL STACK DATA SCIENTIST AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Be a proactive partner to Product Management and Engineering to shape feature roadmaps and help design metrics and analytical workflows to evaluate their success and effectiveness. Build efficient data models and high quality production pipelines and partner with Engineering for all necessary telemetry. Build scalable and extensible analytics/ML/causal inference frameworks to uncover feature usage patterns, subtle issues with the system, potential performance enhanc

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake’s metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake’s query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams. Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them. Mentor and grow junior engineers. Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. Ensure operational readiness of

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role OpenAI is developing custom silicon to power the next generation of frontier AI models. We’re looking for experienced Design Verification (DV) Engineers to ensure functional correctness and robust design for our cutting-edge ML accelerators. You will play a key role in verifying complex hardware systems—ranging from individual IP blocks to subsystems and full SoC—working closely with architecture, RTL, software, and systems teams to deliver reliable silicon at scale. In this role you will: Own the verification of one or more of: custom IP blocks, subsystems (compute, interconnect, memory, etc.), or full-chip SoC-level functionality. Define verification plans based on architecture and microarchitecture specs. Develop constrained-random, directed, and system-level testbenches using SystemVerilog/UVM or equivalent methodologies. Build and maintain stimulus generators, checkers, monitors, and scoreboards to ensure high coverage and correctness. Drive bug triage, root cause analysis, and work closely with design teams on resolution. Contribute to regression infrastructure, coverage analysis, and closure for both block- and top-level environments. You might thrive in this role if you have: BS/MS in EE/CE/CS or equivalent with 3+ years of experience in hardware verification. Proven success verifying complex IP or SoC designs in industry-standard flows Proficient in SystemVerilog, UVM, and common simulation and debug tools (e.g., VCS, Questa, Verdi). Strong knowledge

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model 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 constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to lead the development of motor mechanical designs and prototype hardware for advanced robotic systems. You will own stator and rotor mechanical development from early concepts and detailed design through hands-on builds and prototype validation, partnering closely with electromagnetic, electrical, test, and manufacturing teams. This role focuses on the design, integration, and validation of motor components and prototype processes, including laminations, stack assemblies, bobbins, winding interfaces, and fixtures. You will help drive motor development from initial design through repeatable low-volume builds while establishing the tooling, work instructions, and validation practices needed for future robotic platforms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will Own stator and rotor mechanical designs and released CAD and drawings, including geometry, interfaces, fits, tolerances, retention, assembly access, and mechanical validation. Develop laminations, stack assembly methods, bobbins, and winding interfaces that control alignment, insulation, conductor placement, and end-turn packaging. Design, fabricate, and debug fixtures for winding, stacking, assembly, alignment, and inspection. Build and troubleshoot prototypes. Use measurements, defects, rework, and assembly effort to improve designs and processes. Establish low-volume prototype production with equipment, build sequences, work instructions, revision control, traceability

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor companies to deploy production-grade AI systems across the entire chip design lifecycle: design, verification, and physical design. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to translate frontier model capabilities into systems that materially improve engineering workflows and accelerate innovation. Our work turns early, high-touch deployments into repeatable solution patterns, reference architectures, and evaluation practices that scale across the semiconductor ecosystem. About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer to join our semiconductor-focused Forward Deployed Engineering team. This is a senior IC role that will begin with a strong emphasis on physical design expertise, technical judgment, advisory leverage, and customer credibility, with the expectation that the person will grow into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role over time. In the near term, you will serve as the team’s physical design SME across semiconductor deployments: helping FDEs, Product, and Research understand backend implementation workflows, pressure-test AI-assisted solution ideas against real physical design constraints, and raise the quality of our customer-facing technical work. You will help the broader team build fluency in implementation flows, EDA tooling, signoff methodology, and the trade-offs that shape physical design decisions in practice. Over time, we expect this role to expand beyond SME support into broader FDE ownership: partnering directly with customers, shaping deployment strategy, building and iterating production-grade AI systems, driving technical workstreams, and helping turn high-touch semiconductor deployments into repeatable solutions. This is a strong fit for someone who brings deep physical design expertise today and is excited to grow into a customer-facing, syst

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📍 Tinker Afb, OK, United States
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Electronic & Electrical System Design Engineer (Associate or Mid-Level) Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Test and Evaluation (BT&E) organization is seeking an Electronic & Electrical System Design Engineer for the B-1 Bomber Avionics Integrated Support Facility (AISF) at Tinker Air Force Base, OK . The AISF Laboratory Operations Team is responsible for maintaining, configuring, and upgrading avionics hardware and special test equipment used to support development and testing of operational flight software. Other areas of responsibility include engineering and hardware sustainment that extends to multiple air force bases and labs across the United States. The AISF lab team plays a key role supporting the B-1 platform requirements in areas of avionics and weapons integration, by making changes in the lab first to ensure the software and hardware design are ready prior to ground and flight test. This engineering position is part of a small highly collaborative design team working multiple lab changes to satisfy customer requirements and ultimately the airmen who use the weapon system. This position is part of the Laboratory Operations team, comprising engineers, technicians, and cybersecurity professionals. BT&E is currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Associate or Mid-Level Electronic & Electrical System Design Engineers. Travel: This position will require occasional domestic travel up to 10% to support program objectives. Position Responsibilities: Design lab changes for new test articles and integration that support platform upgrades Design lab changes to existing systems to reso

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📍 Richardson, TX, 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. The Staff Design Engineer is responsible for designing, simulating, and optimizing DRAM circuits while supporting the development of digital and analog circuitry used in advanced memory products. This role collaborates globally across design, verification, product engineering, test, probe, process integration, assembly, and marketing to ensure manufacturable, high‑quality, cost‑optimized solutions. The position drives innovation in future memory generations and contributes to silicon‑to‑system development in a dynamic engineering environment. Responsibilities Design digital, analog, and memory core circuits using CMOS logic and transistors, implementing device specifications from concept to solution. Utilize AI-Enabled tools to assist with schematic editing, data collection and layout floorplan. Create optimized floorplans for circuit placement, routing, power delivery, sense margins, array timing, and die size, including layout leadership. Conduct circuit simulations using FINESIM, HSPICE, and VERILOG; analyze power, performance, reliability, and parasitic impacts. Validate builds through reticle experiments, tape‑out revisions, and simulation‑to‑silicon correlation, identifying required schematic edits. Prepare and maintain design documentation while contributing to best‑known practices and departmental training. Collaborate with global build, verification, product engineering, test, probe, process integration, assembly, and marketing teams to ensure manufacturability and quality. <l

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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As one of the technology industry's most desirable employers, NVIDIA has been redefining accelerated computing, computer graphics and leading the Artificial Intelligence revolution. NVIDIA's innovation is fueled by its great technology—and amazing people. We are seeking a Senior Silicon and System Product Lead to influence, innovate and take our next generation products to the market. As part of the Silicon Solutions Team, we architect and deliver groundbreaking system solutions that integrate all aspects of the system from silicon design, software design to operations and final deployment in multiple market segments that NVIDIA serves. This position offers an unique opportunity to collaborate with multiple organizations in the company and grow your career in a high impact role. We need a passionate, hard-working and creative individual to lead the products all the way from market analysis to delivering the features on the final product. What you'll be doing: Drive product performance and power targets, trade-off features/configurations and provide innovative solutions to complex silicon and system level problems. Evaluate new market segments and use cases; translate market requirements to engineering problem statements and metrics. Innovate Performance, power, yield and quality optimizations and features for the world’s fastest power-shipping products in the GPU and SoC market segments spanning gaming, automotive, datacenter and DL/AI. Develop methodologies and requirements for multi-functional teams to drive silicon and system product features to production. Incorporate productization feedback to improve the next generation. Lead the team for feature requirements and schedule from architecture to silicon phase of projects. Work alongside system architects, designers, marketing teams, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/S

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI develops models that can reason through complex problems and hardware designed for the demands of advanced AI. AI for Chips connects these efforts: applying increasingly capable AI systems to the work of semiconductor engineering. Our goal is to help engineers develop better chips and shorten design cycles. This work brings research, model training, and hardware expertise together to build tools that engineers can use on real designs, with correctness and measurable performance at the center. About the Role We’re hiring a Software Engineer to build the research infrastructure and tooling that help OpenAI models design silicon. You’ll turn chip-design workflows into reliable environments for reinforcement learning and evaluation, and make it easier for researchers to run experiments and iterate on new ideas. You’ll move between software engineering, tool integration, and open research problems. We value strong coding fundamentals, clear technical judgment, and independent execution. Prior chip-design experience is helpful, but you can learn the domain alongside the team’s hardware specialists. In this role, you will: Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, and long-running experiments. Integrate electronic design automation (EDA) tools into workflows for RTL generation, verification, and physical design optimization. Improve experiment reliability, reproducibility, observability, and performance; debug failures across tools, services, and infrastructure. Develop tooling and model harnesses that let researchers test ideas quickly and measure correctness and power, performance, and area (PPA). Collaborate with researchers and engineers to turn successful experiments into reusable systems and training workflows. Own ambiguous projects end to end, communicate progress, and use results to guide the next iteration. You might thrive in this role if you: Have strong software engineering fundamentals, with

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📍 United States
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Job Details: Job Description: This is a high-visibility, commissioned sales leadership role within Intel's US Sales organization, specifically focused on our most disruptive AI-Native and Strategic CSP accounts. You will be the primary architect of Intel's relationship with industry titans who are redefining the boundaries of AI model training, AIaaS solutions and deployment at scale. This is not a traditional sales role. You will operate at the intersection of deep technical engineering and executive business strategy, ensuring Intel's silicon and software roadmap aligns with the world's most demanding AI-as-a-Service and SaaS platforms across on-prem, Tier1 CSP and NeoCloud environments. Key Responsibilities Executive Orchestration: Act as the One Intel lead, building deep-rooted partnerships with C-suite executives and Principal Engineers at world-class AI and SaaS firms. Technical Value Synthesis: Translate complex hardware architectures (CPU, GPU, Accelerator, Networking, and Packaging) into business outcomes for customers running massive-scale distributed training and inference workloads. Strategic Growth: Drive Intel's data-centric growth strategy by identifying and securing design wins within the core infrastructure of the world's leading AI models and solution providers. Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs), Intel Business Units, Cloud and OEM partners to influence future product roadmaps based on the unique needs of AI-native disruptors. Market Evangelism: Serve as a technical and business evangelist, articulating Intel's vision for the future of AI and compute infrastructure in a highly competitive landscape. <p style="text-align:inhe

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Design is core to how we build products at Ramp. We're hiring a recruiter to help shape the team that will be responsible for it. You'll partner with design leadership to hire across Product Design, Design Engineering, and Brand Design. You'll lead searches from inception to close, helping teams identify, assess, and hire exceptional designers. The best designers are rarely on the market. A big part of the job is fostering relationships before someone starts their job search: through events, referrals, and ongoing engagement with the design community. You'll help Ramp stay connected to talent and cultivate the networks that drive future hiring. What You’ll Do Own full-cycle recruiting across Product Design, Design Engineering, and Brand Design Partner with design leadership to define hiring needs, align on candidate profiles, and calibrate talent across a range of design disciplines Identify and engage talent through X, portfolio sites, and other industry channels Build relationships with designers through referrals, events, and ongoi

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📍 United States· Full-time
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The Role We are hiring a Head of Field and Events to own how Coder wins in person. This is one of three pillars in our marketing strategy, where brand, narrative, and pipeline meet the customer face to face. This is a player-coach role. You will set the strategy for our field and events program and run it with your own hands. You will pick the events that matter, design the experiences around them, and make sure every dollar and every hour on the ground turns into pipeline. Early on you will do much of the execution yourself. As the program proves out, you will build and lead the team behind it. You will report to the CMO and work shoulder to shoulder with sales, demand generation, product marketing, and partnerships. If you like owning a number, being close to customers, and turning a room into revenue, this is your seat. What You Will Own Strategy and planning. Set the field and events strategy tied to pipeline and revenue targets, and own the calendar across conferences, regional programs, and owned events. Third-party events. Choose the right conferences and trade shows, negotiate sponsorships, design the booth and on-site experience, and run flawless execution from load-in to follow-up. Owned events. Build and run Coder's own moments: executive dinners, roadshows, user groups, hackathons, and hands-on workshops that put the product in front of the right people. Field marketing. Design regional field programs with sales that generate and accelerate pipeline in priority markets and named accounts. Pipeline and ROI. Own the number for events-sourced and events-influenced pipeline. Set targets, track spend, and report ROI in a way the whole company can see. Lead flow. Build the lead capture and follow-up motion so no lead falls through. Partner with demand gen and sales ops on routing, qualification, and speed to first touch. Message on the ground. Work with product marketing to make sure the story on stage, at the booth, and in the room is sharp and consistent wit

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