About the Team OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners. As a Data Center Controls Network Engineer, you will design, validate, and scale the controls and OT network architectures that support high-density AI data centers. You will work across controls systems, OT infrastructure, telemetry, commissioning, deployment, and operations, partnering with mechanical, electrical, IT/networking, security, and external delivery teams. About the Role We are seeking a mid to senior OT Network Engineer with a strong controls systems background to lead the design and operation of resilient, secure, and scalable OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. This role translates compute, power, cooling, and operational requirements into practical OT network designs, evaluates vendor solutions, and drives technical decisions across controls infrastructure, telemetry, commissioning, and operations. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience in mission-critical OT environments, including industrial networking, virtualized infrastructure, and OT network operations, with expertise in routing, switching, segmentation, firewall policy, time synchronization, monitoring, and network lifecycle support. Key Responsibilities Define controls, automation, and OT network requirements for AI data center campuses. Develop reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable design templates. Review and develop basis-of-design and functional design documents, including OT network diagrams, IP/VLAN schemes, telemetry architectures, data flow diagrams, and commissioning requirements. Design OT and infrastructure network architectures, including physical topology, logical topology, IP addressing, subnetting, VLA
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About the team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and startups. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to late-stage startups. About the Role We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Startups Applied AI Lead. This role is based in our San Francisco or New York offices. 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: Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale. Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development. Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases. Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources. Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research
About the team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As an AI Deployment Engineer (ADE) in the OpenAI for Government team, you’ll help government agencies transform their organization through solutions such as automated content generation, contextual search, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models and technology. About the Role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will pair with government agencies (federal, state, and local), policymakers, and other public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Global Affairs, Applied Research, and Product teams. This role is based in Washington, DC. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with our most sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API and other OpenAI products. Work with senior customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of AI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap. Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on pr
About the team The Codex Deployment Engineering team helps customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools throughout their software development lifecycle. We act as trusted technical partners, guiding engineering teams as they integrate Codex into their projects and workflows. Our customers span digital-native companies to global enterprises, and we work side-by-side to accelerate how they plan, build, and deliver software. About the Role We are seeking a technically deep, creativity-driven AI Deployment Engineer who is already a power user of AI coding tools and passionate about pushing the boundaries of developer productivity. You will partner directly with engineering leaders and hands-on builders to design, validate, and scale advanced AI workflows, often using Codex to prototype and build the very demos, integrations, and automations customers ultimately adopt. This is a highly cross-functional role that blends technical architecture, product strategy, and customer-facing leadership. You’ll work closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Applied Engineering, and the broader Codex organization to advocate for customer needs, shape product direction, and accelerate the successful deployment of intelligent coding systems across some of the world’s most influential companies. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert on OpenAI Codex for a portfolio of customers, embedding deeply with them to enable their engineering teams and build coding workflows. Partner directly with customers to design and implement AI-enhanced development workflows, from rapid prototyping through scalable production rollout. Build high-quality demos, reference implementations, and workflow automations, using Codex itself as part of your development process. Lead large-format workshops, technical deep dives, and hands-on enablement sessions that help engineering organizations adopt AI coding tools effectively and safely. Contribute technical content including
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 product marketers develop and execute go-to-market strategies for the most strategic areas of the business. We are looking for a highly technical, driven, and self-motivated Product Marketing Engineer to lead competitive benchmarking for Snowflake’s Analytics portfolio. This role will own the end-to-end benchmarking process, from defining the testing strategy and designing the benchmarking architecture to executing workloads, validating results, and communicating the outcomes. You will partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to evaluate Snowflake products against competitive offerings using rigorous, repeatable, and defensible methodologies. You will translate technical benchmark results into meaningful customer outcomes and compelling market-facing narratives. Your work will appear across Snowflake blogs, partner publications, technical papers, presentations, demos, and videos. You will also closely monitor competitive products, technical claims, and published benchmarks, helping Snowflake respond quickly, credibly, and strategically. The role will support Snowflake’s broader Analytics portfolio, including Interactive Analytics for real-time use cases, Business Intelligence, Semantic Views, Ontologies, context for AI-powered applications, and core
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. Position Summary We are seeking an accomplished Principal Cloud Storage Engineer to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of our private cloud storage platforms. This role will focus on large-scale storage architecture, data protection, cyber recovery, and resiliency technologies across complex enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in storage systems with strong leadership, architectural vision, and the ability to influence technical direction across the organization. Key Responsibilities Architect and engineer enterprise storage platforms that ensure data integrity, availability, security, and disaster recovery readiness Design and implement end-to-end storage solutions, including Software Defined Storage, SAN, NAS, and object storage across private cloud and data center environments Drive strategic technology decisions by evaluating emerging products, tools, and standards supporting storage, data protection, cloud, and compute platforms Lead infrastructure initiatives involving storage modernization, data protection, cyber recovery, data migration, and resilience engineering Develop and execute enterprise strategies for backup, recovery, cyber vaulting, and business continuity Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of storage architectures, configurations, policies, and operation
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. As a Principal Engineer at Micron’s HBM New Product Validation team in Boise, ID you will be a senior technical guide responsible for validation strategy and readiness for future-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) products. You will apply deep expertise in complex RAM and high-bandwidth memory architecture and building to establish architecture validation strategies. You will impact decisions that improve validation observability and debug efficiency . You will lead investigations of complex architecture, building , and silicon issues from pre-silicon simulation through post-silicon characterization. You will partner across Design Engineering, Design Validation, Product Engineering, Systems teams, and will develop and promote AI-enabled validation methodologies that improve efficiency, quality, and scalability. Responsibilities: Define architecture-aware validation strategies and coverage direction for future-generation HBM products. Drive validation readiness for next-generation products by preparing strategies, test environments, and execution plans before first silicon, reducing risk, accelerating issue resolution, and preventing late-stage surprises. Evaluate new DRAM/HBM architectural features and define validation requirements and testability needs before DBR. <span style="color:#
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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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to serve as a technical leader and strategic contributor within our Product Security team. This role goes beyond execution — you will drive the evolution of CLEAR’s application security posture by influencing architecture, shaping security engineering processes, and mentoring team members in security and engineering. You’ll lead security initiatives across the organization and help embed security into every stage of our software development lifecycle. What you'll do: Drive security strategy and implementation across all CLEAR products and engineering teams, ensuring consistent protection of customer and business-critical assets. Partner with engineering leadership to align application security initiatives with company-wide technology and product roadmaps, balancing innovation with risk mitigation. Provide technical leadership across CLEAR’s application security initiatives, guiding architecture, design, and development to meet high security standards. Serve as a trusted advisor to cross-functional teams — including Engineering, DevOps, Product, GRC, and IT — enabling secure-by-design practices across the organization. Design and drive implementation of scalable automated security controls and testing frameworks integrated into CLEAR’s CI/CD pipelines. Lead complex threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk assessments across high-value systems and platforms, driving meaningful security outcomes. Engage with CLEAR's customers to provide insight and support their fraud and ident
About the Team The mission of the Applied AI Engineering team is to enable the secure and impactful implementation of GenAI solutions. We serve as technical thought partners and trusted advisors to our clients, ideating high-value use cases and providing the hands-on guidance necessary to drive projects into production. In this role within the Government team, you will empower agencies to evolve their operations through automated content synthesis, advanced search capabilities, and bespoke applications leveraging our latest foundational technologies and models. About the Role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will pair with government agencies (federal, state, and local), policymakers, and other public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Global Affairs, Applied Research, and Product teams. This role is based in Washington, DC. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with our most sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API and other OpenAI foundational technologies like Codex. Work with senior customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of GenAI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap. Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on prototypes and/or by delivering impactful strate
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. Position Summary We are seeking a highly experienced Principal / Director-level Full-Stack Software Development Engineer to join our Digital Caremark organization and lead the architecture, design, and delivery of next-generation digital solutions. This role spans AI-enabled applications, scalable digital platforms, and enterprise integrations that power critical healthcare and pharmacy experiences. This is a senior technical leadership role for a hands-on engineer who can operate across the full stack—from intuitive front-end applications to resilient backend services—while setting architectural direction, influencing engineering standards, and mentoring teams. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, platform thinking, and strong collaboration skills to build secure, scalable, API-first solutions in a highly regulated environment. Key Responsibilities: Architecture & System Design • Define and drive architecture for large-scale distributed systems and digital platforms • Lead design reviews and set architecture standards and best practices • Champion API-first, microservices, and event-driven architecture patterns • Ensure systems meet scalability, reliability, security, and compliance requirements • Balance performance, cost, and speed in technical decision-making Fu
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The ML Observability team builds cutting-edge tools to monitor, explain, and improve AI systems in production, particularly those leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. We provide robust, scalable observability for AI workloads, including drift detection and model evaluation, and behavior tracing, enabling customers to ship AI with confidence. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the development of new features and foundational capabilities within Datadog’s LLM Observability product. You will shape product direction, drive experimentation, and apply your deep understanding of both AI systems and software engineering to solve open-ended problems in the fast-moving AI landscape. Your work will directly impact how our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize LLM-based applications in production. Join us in building the foundational tools that make AI systems observable, understandable, and reliable in the real world. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Drive design and implementation of LLM observability features. Ideate, prototype, and scale new product features to provide insights and drive improvements for generative AI systems Work cross-functionally with other eng teams, product, UX, and applied science to iterate fast and find product-market fit Develop and extend tools for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLMs Influence architecture decisions and mentor engineers to build resilient, high-performance systems Stay close to customer pain points and use those insights to guide product and engineering priorities Stay current with industry trends and advancements in machine learning and observability, driving innovation within the team Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or r
About the Role In this role, you’ll lead and evolve the design system foundations for ChatGPT. You’ll make nuanced design judgment explicit and usable across product teams, establishing the principles, patterns, and standards that enable coherent, high-quality experiences at scale. A paramount part of this role is raising OpenAI’s craft bar. This work extends beyond maintaining a component library: you’ll define what excellent product design looks and feels like, establish clear guidance for choosing and applying interface patterns, and ensure that new ChatGPT experiences strengthen a coherent system across platforms. Working closely with research, engineering, product, and design, you’ll create a continuous learning loop between design principles, product experiences, evaluation, and evolving technology—shaping a system that becomes more capable and expressive as ChatGPT grows. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Define an exceptionally high standard for craft and taste, translating that standard into principles, guidance, and examples that elevate the quality of ChatGPT. Own and evolve ChatGPT’s design foundations, including typography, sizing, spacing, layout, motion, accessibility, and responsive behavior. Establish a shared source of truth across platforms and improve the systems connecting tokens, components, patterns, widgets, learning experiences, and app-like product experiences. Build a comprehensive design systems framework with clear, opinionated guidance about when and how product teams should use different interface patterns. Translate design judgment into durable standards and use prototyping and evaluation workflows to test experiences, identify recurring issues, and improve the system. Identify promising patterns across emerging product experiences and turn them into reusable, documented foundations. Partner with research, engineering, product, and design to evolve the d
Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Principal Software Engineer Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company powering an inclusive digital economy. Through secure networks, data-driven insights, and innovative solutions, we enable safe, simple, and smart digital commerce across more than 210 countries and territories. Within Consumer Authentication Solutions (CAS), Mastercard delivers the critical authentication infrastructure that protects billions of digital transactions globally. CAS provides capabilities including EMV 3DS, Identity Check, Directory Services, Smart Authentication, tokenized authentication, issuer enablement, and risk-based authentication. As a Principal Software Engineer, you serve as a distinguished technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture, engineering strategy, and long-term technical direction of critical authentication platforms. You drive solutions to complex business and technical challenges, influence engineering decisions across multiple teams, and establish standards that improve the scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence of Mastercard's authentication ecosystem. This role requires deep technical expertise, exceptional system design skills, and the ability to lead through influence while mentoring engineers and advancing engineering excellence across the organizati
About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore fosters continuous learning and innovation. Job Summary Reporting into the Systems Engineering organisation, the Distinguished Engineer, End-to-End Security Architect will define and lead the security architecture for Graphcore’s inference service platform. This role is responsible for establishing a comprehensive security strategy spanning platform, infrastructure, networking, service operations, customer assurance, and compliance readiness. Working across multiple engineering and operational functions, the successful candidate will provide technical leadership, drive security requirements, and ensure the platform delivers robust protection, resilience, and trust for customers. The Team You will work closely with teams across security architecture, infrastructure engineering, networking, site reliability engineering, platform software, firmware, data centre operations, compliance, legal, customer engineering, and customer security. The team collaborates across the business to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable AI infrastructure and services while supporting customer assurance, regulatory requirements, and operational excellence. Responsibilities and Duties Own the end-to-end security a
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