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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Curious about how cutting-edge hardware actually comes to life? We're looking for someone who’s excited to dive into the core of next-gen systems and help make them real. In this role, you’ll validate high-speed interfaces, solve complex system-level puzzles, and collaborate across teams to shape the future of AI/ML computing. If firmware, hardware, and hands-on debugging sound like your kind of fun — let’s chat! This role is hybrid and based in Vancouver, Canada. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are You love bringing hardware to life and enjoy the thrill of solving tricky problems across the hardware–firmware boundary. You’re hands-on in the lab and comfortable with tools like oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and JTAG — digging deep doesn’t scare you. You’re comfortable jumping into unfamiliar problems and figuring things out — whether it’s in the lab or in firmware. You’re curious, collaborative, and excited to work on technology that pushes the boundaries of performance. What We Need Someone to take the lead in validating our next-gen PCIe interfaces — from controller to PHY, and everything in between. A strong co

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📍 San Diego, California, Canada
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The Undersea Systems Division at Leidos currently has an opening for a Technical Program Lead to support a customer site in San Diego, California. This is an exciting opportunity to apply systems engineering, naval operations, test and evaluation, and technical project-management experience in support of large-scale fleet activities and critical maritime missions. The selected candidate will serve as the onsite Technical Program Led and senior technical representative, working closely with the Leidos Project Manager, customer leadership, engineers, fleet personnel, operational stakeholders, and government representatives. The position will support day-to-day onsite execution of program activities while also contributing directly to systems engineering, integration, test, and evaluation efforts. Primary Responsibilities: Serve as the onsite senior technical representative for Leidos at the customer site in San Diego. Work side by side with customer leadership and technical personnel to support day-to-day program execution and mission priorities. Support the Leidos Project Manager with program planning, execution, customer coordination, schedule management, risk management, and delivery of program commitments. Lead and coordinate engineering activities across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholder organizations. Translate customer operational needs into technically sound engineering approaches, priorities, requirements, and recommendations. Coordinate with engineers, subcontractors, fleet personnel, operators, government stakeholders, and program leadership to resolve technical and operational issues. Track technical scope, milestones, schedules, deliverables, action items, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions. Maintain project-management artifacts, including project plans, schedules, milestone trackers, risk and issue registers, action-item logs, and

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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NVIDIA is looking for a hands-on Solutions Architect Manager to lead a team of GPU, networking & software solution architects and engineers. Do you want to build and lead a group that designs, debugs, and deploys new AI hardware and software technologies into production in customer data centers? As part of the NVIDIA SA organization, you will drive people and technical leadership for end-to-end solutions deployments at some of NVIDIA's most strategic technology customers, while directly contributing to designs and deep-dive debugging and shaping our product roadmap with customer feedback. What you will be doing: Recruit & manage a team of solutions architects, system/network and software engineers focused on large-scale GPU and AI networking deployments. Set priorities, allocate resources, mentor, and ensure high-quality customer delivery across multiple concurrent projects - while remaining directly involved in key technical reviews, design decisions, and critical debug efforts. Provide deep subject-matter expertise in advanced GPU and network systems and serve as the senior technical point of contact for strategic customers. Personally lead and guide complex compute/network configuration and performance debugging, working side-by-side with your team to deliver performant, reliable clusters. Guide your team as they lead network / compute / software architecture discussions, and support server, network, and cluster bring-up, including on-site data center work where needed. Systematically collect and synthesize customer-specific requirements across your portfolio. Partner with GPU/Network Systems Engineering, Product Management, and Sales to influence roadmap priorities and packaging of reference designs and solutions. Demonstrate SME in advanced GPU & network systems and be a trusted technical advisor to NVIDIA's strategic customers. Bring customer-sp

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious, zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI. This is a chance to help define an entirely new category of products—and shape how people experience AI in the future. The Systems Integration team is critical in this mission, turning complex hardware-software development into reliable product signals. We build the shared infrastructure, tooling, and lab environments that let teams test quickly, understand failures, and ship with confidence. About the Role As a Systems Integration Manager , you will lead the team responsible for device validation infrastructure, test automation, developer tooling, and lab operations. This is a player-coach leadership role: you’ll set technical and operational direction, build and develop a team of engineers and lab operations professionals, and stay close to the architecture and hardest systems problems. You will partner closely with device software, OS, firmware, hardware, reliability, QA, and release infrastructure teams to define validation strategy, improve release readiness, and ensure our test environments and quality signals scale with the product. Because this is a new category of devices, you’ll have the rare opportunity to build the validation foundation early—shaping the systems, standards, and operating model that will support products from prototype through launch. We’re looking for a leader who combines strong technical judgment with people leadership, operational rigor, and experience building reliable systems for complex hardware-software products. This role is b

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the Role At Sentry, Support is an engineering discipline. Our customers are the greatest technical minds in the world—developers at elite enterprises building the future of software—and they deserve answers that go deeper than a knowledge base link. We're looking for an APAC Technical Support Engineer based in San Francisco to join our global Support Engineering team. This role is designed to provide APAC coverage to our users; with the shift being Sunday through Thursday 4PM-12AM PST. We are architecting the Technical Support engine . We’re looking for an experienced engineer to help us redefine the standard of technical support by combining deep human expertise with autonomous agentic systems. You are a debugger of both code and systems. You will treat support volume as a data signal to build automated resolution paths, ensuring our human engineers only touch the most complex, high-impact architectural puzzles. Sentry Support Engineers aren't just clearing queues; they are Orchestrators . You will engage with our users across GitHub, Discord, and our internal systems, while acting as the Technical Lead for our Agentic Ops. You ensure that when a developer asks a complex question, our systems have the right context and a seamless "Human-in-the-Loop" path to you when deep, nuanced expertise is required. In this role you will Master the Sentry Ecosystem & Support Elite Developers Deep-Dive Debugging: Perform root-cause analysis on complex issues and distributed tracing gaps across polyglot environments. Support the Great Minds: Act as a strategic consultant for senior engineers at our largest enterprise customers, s

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Opportunity: Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways: As individual contributors, they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet scale streaming. As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, then leading delivery. In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering. Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second, being the lead engineer building a new product like synthetics or profiling, or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale. What You'll Do: Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/P

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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Own the end-to-end execution that takes NVIDIA DRIVE Autonomous Driving Software (NDAS) from product definition to production deployment across major OEM vehicle lines. We are seeking an accomplished engineering execution leader to lead adaptation, integration, validation, and production readiness of NVIDIA Autonomous driving solution (NDAS) for strategic automotive OEMs. You will work between NVIDIA product and engineering teams and the OEM's vehicle, software, systems, and validation groups. The role involves converting an agreed feature set into a deliverable vehicle program. This entails clarifying requirements, coordinating interfaces and responsibilities, setting the engineering plan, building consistent productization workflows, and managing issue resolution. You will influence teams such as systems engineering, autonomous-driving development, platform software, functional safety, cybersecurity, quality, validation, release, and customer engineering. What You'll Be Doing: Lead NDAS execution with major OEMs across the full program lifecycle — from feature definition and technical alignment through vehicle integration, validation, launch, and production ramp — owning the coordinated engineering plan per vehicle line, including requirements, architecture, adaptation scope, achievements, staffing, validation strategy, release criteria, and production-readiness gates. Translate OEM vehicle requirements and use cases into clear commitments for NVIDIA teams, while ensuring OEM partners understand product capabilities, constraints, assumptions, and the work required on their side; build scalable, repeatable workflows for adapting NDAS to specific OEM platforms, vehicle architectures, sensor configurations, compute platforms, networks, and development processes. Drive multi-functional implementation across autonomous-driving features, systems, platform software, vehicle integratio

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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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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📍 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 We’re looking for a Product Manufacturing Engineer to drive manufacturing strategy and execution for next-generation AI hardware within the Silicon & Systems team, with a particular focus on PCBA manufacturing, assembly, process development, and production readiness. You will work closely with design engineering, systems engineering, operations, TPMs, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and other external partners to ensure new hardware products successfully transition from concept and prototype builds through NPI and high-volume production. You’ll own critical manufacturing initiatives, identify and resolve production risks, and help establish the processes and controls required to deliver complex hardware at scale. 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: Drive manufacturing and quality initiatives to ensure product success from concept and early development through NPI, production launch, and scale. Lead manufacturing process development for next-generation AI hardware systems, partnering closely with design engineering, systems engineering, operations, TPMs, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. Own PCBA manufacturing development and production readiness, including assembly processes, process validation, manufacturing test, rework, yield improvement, and successful transition into volume production. Establish NPI manufact

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📍 Berkeley, United States
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Ship Suitability Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking a Ship Suitability Engineer (Level 5) to support the Systems Engineering Integration & Test ( SEIT) Team in Berkeley, MO . Located within the BDS Air Dominance Systems Engineering core group in St Louis, Missouri supporting the Ship Suitability functions in the core and across individual programs. The candidate will support core efforts in development and maintenance processes and tools and will act as the “user/customer advocate” on naval programs to instill operational quality in Boeing’s products. The candidate will collaborate with Boeing Integrated Product Teams and the maritime customer, working to inform integration into the shipboard environment including approaches to launch and recovery, deck handling, communication modes with the ship, and shipboard qualification testing. The candidate will support engineering and test efforts on programs at the systems level by analyzing designs, participating in trade studies, designing/developing concepts, and assisting with drafting and executing test plans for air ship integration of weapons systems. The candidate will also lead and support training efforts to educate Boeing and customer engineers in naval aviation operations, procedures, equipment and environments pertaining to ship suitability. Training efforts may include, but are not limited to, classroom training at Boeing facilities and leading groups of engineers aboard ships at sea and land-based facilities. Position Responsibilities Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to lead activities to plan, design, develop and verify complex lifecycle balanced system of

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📍 Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
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Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Micron 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 an AI Reimagination Engineer in Micron's Generative AI Center of Excellence (GenAI COE), you have an outstanding chance to transform how businesses function. You will partner with different business areas to break down large, manual, multi-step processes and redesign them into effective, autonomous systems. This position combines process reimagination with AI systems engineering, making you a key part of the transformation journey. You will collaborate closely with the GenAI COE, IT architecture, security, and project teams. You will lead projects from the initial redesign to the final build, delivering solutions that business teams can adopt and scale. Responsibilities: Decompose end-to-end processes: Map current-state flows, quantify effort and risk, and lead eliminate/simplify/agentify analysis before automation. Architect the agentic solution: Build future-state flows and AI architecture, including task and agent decomposition, orchestration patterns, tool and data access, memory and context strategy, and human-in-the-loop controls. Translate inventions into buildable solutions by developing agent workflows, composing prompt and context strategies, MCP/connector and integration requirements, and evaluation criteria. Follow Micron's “Secure by Design”

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📍 Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
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Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Micron 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 an AI Reimagination Engineer in Micron's Generative AI Center of Excellence (GenAI COE), you have an outstanding chance to transform how businesses function. You will partner with different business areas to break down large, manual, multi-step processes and redesign them into effective, autonomous systems. This position combines process reimagination with AI systems engineering, making you a key part of the transformation journey. You will collaborate closely with the GenAI COE, IT architecture, security, and project teams. You will lead projects from the initial redesign to the final build, delivering solutions that business teams can adopt and scale. Responsibilities: Decompose end-to-end processes: Map current-state flows, quantify effort and risk, and lead eliminate/simplify/agentify analysis before automation. Architect the agentic solution: Build future-state flows and AI architecture, including task and agent decomposition, orchestration patterns, tool and data access, memory and context strategy, and human-in-the-loop controls. Translate inventions into buildable solutions by developing agent workflows, composing prompt and context strategies, MCP/connector and integration requirements, and evaluation criteria. Follow Micron's “Secure by Design”

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📍 Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
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Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Micron 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 an AI Reimagination Engineer in Micron's Generative AI Center of Excellence (GenAI COE), you have an outstanding chance to transform how businesses function. You will partner with different business areas to break down large, manual, multi-step processes and redesign them into effective, autonomous systems. This position combines process reimagination with AI systems engineering, making you a key part of the transformation journey. You will collaborate closely with the GenAI COE, IT architecture, security, and project teams. You will lead projects from the initial redesign to the final build, delivering solutions that business teams can adopt and scale. Responsibilities: Decompose end-to-end processes: Map current-state flows, quantify effort and risk, and lead eliminate/simplify/agentify analysis before automation. Architect the agentic solution: Build future-state flows and AI architecture, including task and agent decomposition, orchestration patterns, tool and data access, memory and context strategy, and human-in-the-loop controls. Translate inventions into buildable solutions by developing agent workflows, composing prompt and context strategies, MCP/connector and integration requirements, and evaluation criteria. Follow Micron's “Secure by Design”

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
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Citibank, N.A. seeks an Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst for its Tampa, Florida location. Duties: Responsible for source code review to ensure it satisfies good coding practice. Coordinate all communication between tech team and Ab Initio vendor, including scheduling and chairing weekly meetings. Responsible for reconfiguration and reengineering to optimize performance. Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design. Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status. Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Manage the hardware infrastructure and monitor the performance metrices E2E. Identify areas of growth need and proposal scale up activities. Execute on scale up activities by submitting procurement requests, manage regular calls with the deployment team and plan go live/switch activity. Develop shell scripting code base to support the job executions, interactions between systems. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols. Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field and 6 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer, Associate Director – Data Engineering, Senior Consultant, Data Specialist, Assistant Systems Engineer or related position involving gathering new business requirements, architecture, analysis, estimation, design, implementation, and leading a team of software developers and software development. 6 years of experience must include: Experience with AbInitio Data Processing (SME), Data Modeling

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📍 Bellevue, WA, United States· Full-time
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Corporate Systems Engineering builds and operates the software platforms, integrations, and automations that power Smartsheet’s core business functions across Finance, Sales/GTM, and People & Culture. Our team owns mission-critical systems and workflows that enable how the company hires, sells, bills, pays, reports, and scales. We operate at the intersection of software engineering, enterprise platforms, and business-critical data, treating internal systems with the same rigor, reliability, and product mindset as customer-facing software. The Automation team builds human-to-system and system-to-system automations that reduce manual effort and friction across the business. We combine cloud-native services, agentic AI, and workflow orchestration to enable employees to interact with enterprise systems through intelligent, secure, and auditable automation. As a Senior Software Engineer I (Automation), you will lead the design, build, and operation of systems and workflows that directly support business execution at scale. You will own complex technical initiatives, partner with Product Managers and stakeholders on technical roadmaps, and mentor junior engineers. This full-time position reports to the Sr. Director, Development and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Architect AI Agents: Take a leading role in designing Agentic Workflows using AWS Step Functions and Bedrock Agents that reason

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