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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. Within Safety Systems, the Model Policy team works to ensure that frontier models behave safely and reliably in real-world environments by designing policies that define safe model behavior. Some of our publications include: Safety at every step OpenAI GPT6 System Card OpenAI Model Spec About the Role We’re hiring a Model Policy Manager to shape model behavior for U.S. government use, with a focus on national security applications. You’ll define nuanced policies and translate them into training and evaluation criteria, helping models navigate high-stakes scenarios while preserving their usefulness and capabilities. In this role, you will: Develop model policies that guide safe and useful behavior. Build evaluations, identify policy gaps and model failures, and use findings to improve policies and training. Work with research, engineering, and domain experts to support safe, reliable deployment. You might thrive in this role if you: Bring relevant experience in AI safety, policy, or risk assessment. Have strong judgment and can turn complex safety questions into clear, practical policies. Have the technical fluency to work hands-on with model data and evaluations. Are motivated by OpenAI’s mission and the responsible use of

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. Within Safety Systems, the Model Policy team works to ensure that frontier models behave safely and reliably in real-world environments by designing policies that define safe model behavior. Our relevant publications include: Safety at every step OpenAI GPT6 System Card OpenAI Model Spec GPT-Live ChatGPT Images 2.5 About the Role We are hiring a Model Policy Manager to focus on the safety of multimodal models. In this role, you will shape how OpenAI identifies, evaluates, and addresses risks in multimodal AI models - such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images - as well as multimodal capabilities in frontier AI models. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Design and maintain model policies for audio, image, video, and omni-modal behavior. Translate theories of harm and threat models into behavioral safety policies, evaluation criteria, grading guidance, and safeguards. Identify and analyze safety regressions and failure patterns to identify gaps in existing policies and inform policy iteration. Develop policy artifacts that support model training, evaluation, and deployment, including behavior i

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Safety Training research team aims to fundamentally advance our capabilities for precisely implementing safe behavior in AI models, and to leverage these advances to make OpenAI’s deployed models safe and beneficial. This requires a breadth of new ML research to address the growing set of safety challenges as AI becomes more powerful and used in more settings. Key focus areas include how to train nuanced safety behaviors, how to make the model robust to bad actors, how to address privacy and security risks, and how to make the model trustworthy in safety-critical situations. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. About the Role We’re seeking a researcher to train and evaluate models for U.S. government use, with a focus on national security applications. You’ll advance safety post-training and robustness, helping models follow nuanced policies while preserving their usefulness and capabilities. In this role, you will: Research and implement methods for safety training, reinforcement learning, and adversarial robustness. Develop evaluations, identify model failure modes, and use findings to improve training. Work with research, engineering, security, and policy partners to support safe, reliable deployment. You might thrive in this role if you: Bring 4+ years of relevant AI safety research experience, including RLHF, adversarial training, or robustness. Have a degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field, and strong deep learning research or engineering skills. Have experience improving model safety for deployment and enjoy collaborative research. Are motivated by OpenAI’s mission and the responsible use of AI in safety-critical settings. Security Requirements Active TS/SCI clearance or equivalent. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefi

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. About the Role We are hiring a Product Manager to focus on risk related to multimodal models. In this role, you will drive initiatives which ensure that OpenAI’s audio, image, and video deployments are safe, impactful, and aligned with user needs and technical innovation. You will clarify strategic priorities, develop safety-focused product roadmaps, and collaborate closely with AI researchers, software engineers, policy experts, and cross-functional partners. This role suits a proactive, technically skilled product manager adept at adversarial thinking and excited to tackle challenging, ambiguous problems through structured analysis and collaborative decision-making. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available. In this role, you will: Partner closely with AI research, engineering, data science, policy teams, and other stakeholders to embed safety throughout the development and deployment of multimodal AI models - such as GPT-Live and ChatGPT Images - as well as multimodal capabilities in frontier AI models. Develop comprehensive frameworks for understanding and mitigating deployment safety risks, drawing on data analysis, expert consultation, and adversarial assessments. Define strate

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. About the Role The Safety Measurement Product Manager owns OpenAI's approach to measuring harm and safeguard efficacy in production, including driving the strategy for our suite of safety measurement platforms and products used across the company. You will partner closely with our safety research and engineering teams to determine what we measure, where we measure it, and how we measure it, feeding those insights directly into critical leadership decisions and back into our safety work. You will also represent the company's topline safety metric as well as prioritize incoming requests from partner teams to expand our safety measurement platform to more use cases. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available. In this role, you will: Partner closely with data science, research, engineering, policy teams, and other stakeholders to craft a vision for understanding safety outcomes and prevalence on our platforms. Define strategic priorities and product roadmaps focused on improving safety measurement approaches will scaling our measurement platform to more use cases, products, and cross-functional team needs. Establish repeatable processes to integrate cutting-edge AI safety research into OpenAI’s safety m

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Our team is a fast-growing group of researchers and engineers focused on building reliable ML systems and pushing the boundaries of LLM inference efficiency. We develop techniques that improve how models execute in production, driving lower latency, higher throughput, and consistent quality across diverse workloads. As an engineer on this team, you’ll work across the inference stack to improve core performance metrics by diving deep into model execution, identifying bottlenecks, and developing innovative optimizations. You’ll collaborate closely with modeling and systems teams to experiment, measure, and ship improvements that meaningfully accelerate inference. As the team evolves, you’ll have opportunities to build expertise in advanced performance techniques, including GPU/CUDA optimizations, kernel-level improvements, and model execution strategies for MoE and large-scale architectures. Please Note: We have offices in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Seoul and London. We embrace a remote-friendly environment, and as part of this approach, we strategically distribute teams based on interests, e

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. Our Talent team is looking for an experienced and discerning technical recruiter to help build Linear’s next generation of engineering talent. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who sees recruiting as a craft. Your primary focus will be growing our engineering team in North America. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership and our existing recruiters across product, infrastructure, AI, mobile, and emerging technical roles. You’ll own the full search, from mapping talent markets and activating networks through assessment, work trial support, and close. Linear engineers tend to combine technical depth with product judgment, craftsmanship, and significant ownership. Finding them requires more than matching resumes to requirements. We’re looking for someone who can recognize these qualities, reach candidates with precision, and continually sharpen their judgment through close partnership with our team. All recruiters at Linear are generalists and may support other functions as company priorities evolve, but engineering will be the primary focus of this role. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North American (Eastern time zone), with a strong preference for the New York City area. Being in New York enables closer partnership with our growing local team, c

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. We're looking for a senior to staff level product manager to join the team. In this role, you'll be responsible for leading the development of products end-to-end, from conception through development and rollout. If you're excited to have a lot of ownership while remaining in the details day to day, this might be a great fit for you. Linear is a product-led company that focuses on both building and selling. It's up to you to bring together the building and selling sides of the company in order to create something that our customers will love. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America or Europe time zones. You can work from anywhere within those regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Perform up-front discovery through user interviews, competitive research, data analysis, etc. and present findings to the team with conviction and rigor Help engineers and designers deeply understand user needs, empowering them to make great product decisions Craft messaging around upcoming features that resonates with users Enable sales and marketing teams to effectively communicate with and win with customers What we’re looking for 6+ years e

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. Over the past years, Linear has experienced incredible organic growth and has become an instrumental tool for many of the world’s best product teams. We believe customer support should always feel like an extension of that experience. As a Product Support Specialist at Linear, you’ll contribute to the future of our product by surfacing customer feedback and insights, contributing to our technical documentation, and engaging a technical customer community via social channels. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based within U.S. and Canada Pacific or Mountain Time. You can work from anywhere within those time zones. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you’ll do Support customers in end-to-end engagement, including onboarding, account setup, debugging issues, feature and integration discovery Investigate and resolve inbound customer issues reported through all communication channels, including email, Slack, Twitter, and Reddit Partner with our engineering team to document and reproduce bugs Surface trends and insights from customer feedback to the team at large to inform product choices Lead select strategic projects to improve the support experience, inter

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As Linear moves upmarket, the gap between deal close and successful enterprise rollout has become our most important surface area. We're hiring an Implementation Manager to own that gap. You will be the single point of accountability from signed contract through successful go-live, coordinating across CSM, Solutions Engineering, Customer Education, Sales, and the customer's own teams to make every enterprise rollout repeatable, on time, and high quality. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. EST time zone is preferred for this position. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Own end-to-end implementation plans for enterprise customers: timeline, milestones, dependencies, risk, and stakeholder accountability Run the handoff from Sales at deal close in partnership with Customer Success and Solutions Engineering: validate services scope, timeline commitments, complexity signals, and migration readiness Coordinate workspace architecture, migration, and integration workstreams (SSO/SCIM, Slack, GitHub, Jira sync, custom integrations) across customer IT, Solutions Engineering, and engineering escalations Build the enablement calenda

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. We’re hiring a Product Marketing Manager to help shape how Linear’s products are brought to market and understood by customers. This role sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Design, CX, Sales, and Marketing, and is responsible for turning technically sophisticated product work into clear narratives, strong launches, and high-quality customer-facing experiences. You’ll go deep on the product, define positioning and messaging, and drive execution across the surfaces that matter most—from in-product copy and changelogs to enablement, documentation inputs, email, and launch communications. This is a hands-on role for someone who combines product judgment, excellent writing, and strong cross-functional leadership. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America and the United Kingdom. You can work from anywhere within these regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you’ll do Develop positioning, messaging, and core narratives for feature releases, key launches, and strategic product narratives Partner closely with Product management, Engineering, and Design to refine how products are presented across in-product and external surfaces

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. Quality is our competitive advantage. Every member of our fully remote team is a maker at heart, caring deeply about the quality and feel of our work. While the industry optimizes for speed and metrics alone, we believe that craft and quality have lasting value. Quality creates gravity — it pulls people toward our team and product rather than requiring us to push. This philosophy drives everything we do, from product decisions to hiring choices. For this role, we expect robust design skills, sharp product thinking, and the ability to engage in technical discussions. We work in small, autonomous project teams, where engineers are paired tightly with designers to explore ideas, build prototypes, deploy internal builds, and ultimately ship to customers. You will be a key element of projects from beginning to end. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Own the experience of our iOS and Android mobile apps, including guiding the adaptation of desktop features to mobile Pair closely with mobile engineers and product leads to initiate and complete mo

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. Quality is our competitive advantage. Every member of our fully remote team is a maker at heart, caring deeply about the quality and feel of our work. While the industry optimizes for speed and metrics alone, we believe that craft and quality have lasting value. Quality creates gravity — it pulls people toward our team and product rather than requiring us to push. This philosophy drives everything we do, from product decisions to hiring choices. For this role, we expect robust design skills, sharp product thinking, and the ability to engage in technical discussions. We work in small, autonomous project teams, where engineers are paired tightly with designers to explore ideas, build prototypes, deploy internal builds, and ultimately ship to customers. You will be a key element of projects from beginning to end. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Pair closely with engineering and product to initiate and complete roadmap projects, no hand-offs Spot opportunities to redesign or refine key screens and flows, as well as smaller quality issues an

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📍 United States· Full-time
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The MongoDB Query Team is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to provide division-wide, product leadership for our fast, modular distributed query engine and flexible query system. As the most senior product management contributor, you will shape the multi-year strategy, product architecture, and market trajectory for the entire Query business unit. You will be the primary product authority on the most complex trade-offs, anticipating systemic risks and cutting through structural friction that blocks multiple teams and initiatives. This role requires collaboration with distinguished engineers to rigorously debate strategy and pressure-test assumptions and advise executive leadership on options that balance long-term monetization, strategy, and business outcomes. And, where relevant, owns the pricing and monetization strategy for the product line. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Product Vision and Roadmap: Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience Business Leadership: Originate and de-risk the division’s most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes Customer Advocacy: Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap PM Excellence: Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization. Create frameworks and standards for customer and market research that others use for conducting high-quality customer and market research Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database p

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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 Full-Stack Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team to build and optimize the interfaces and tools that power our data infrastructure. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain full-stack applications that support data acquisition, including internal tools and dashboards. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure seamless data ingestion and workflow management. Design and implement APIs to facilitate data interactions between internal services and external data sources. Enhance user experience by developing intuitive web-based interfaces for managing and monitoring data pipelines. Optimize backend services for performance, scalability, and security in a distributed computing environment. Work with legal and compliance teams to ensure our data acquisition processes adhere to privacy regulations and best practices. Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies. Analyze system performance, conduct experiments, and improve data workflows to maximize efficiency. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in full-stack development. Proficiency in frontend frameworks (React, Vue, or similar) and backend technologies such as Python, Node.js, or Go. Strong expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and database design (SQL and NoSQL). Experience building data-intensive applications that handle large-scale datasets. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker). Prior experience with web crawling and large-scale data processing is a

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