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Title: Business Affairs Manager II (Business Development – Strategy & Planning Lead)

Duration: 7+ Months with possible extensions - 32 Weeks i,e 40 hours/week

Client Location: Hybrid onsite in Culver City, CA

Business Development / Strategy & Planning (Contractor)

Line of Business Summary: Come be a part of one of the fastest growing businesses

Job Summary:

The Business Development, Strategy & Planning Contractor will support global growth efforts aimed at driving subscriber acquisition via commercial partnerships. This will be a 32-week contract, with a particular focus on financial modeling, business operations, and engaging with technical engineering teams on whitespace opportunities.

Description

• Research, size and prioritize recommendations of new business and partnership opportunities.
• Conduct complex strategic analyses to drive new business initiatives and dealmaking.
• Lead financial evaluation and economic modeling of deal constructs and commercial terms.
• Collaborate with engineering to write business requirements and size whitespace opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Experience: Experience in strategic planning, financial modeling, and quantitative analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with media content and subscription businesses, corporate strategy, finance, investment banking,
• management consulting and/or similar strategy and planning functions in a global, fast paced organization
• Outstanding analytical skills and attention to detail; ability to conceive, structure, perform, direct, and effectively communicate sophisticated data analysis
• Ability to coordinate, lead, and influence cross-functional teams across all levels
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with senior executives, including via formal presentations.
• Proficiency in Excel, Keynote, and Tableau a plus

Chemist 2

Kelly® Science & Clinical is seeking a Chemist II for a Contract-to-hire opportunity with the Client, a leader in product development and innovation. If you’re passionate about developing formulations that bring new technologies to life and are ready to take the next step in your scientific career, trust The Experts at Hiring Experts.

Pay: $33/hour

Location: Carson, CA

Schedule: Day Shift Mon-Fri

Overview

The Client is an industry-leading company driving innovation through advanced formulation development. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and optimizing formulations for various applications, ensuring technical accuracy, compliance with regulatory standards, and successful transition from the lab to production.

You will collaborate closely with R&D leadership, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to develop high-quality products that meet client specifications and performance expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Formulation Development- Selecting, blending, and testing raw materials to create new prototypes

Stability Analysis- Testing formulas for pH, viscosity, and shelf-life to ensure they do not separate.

• Research & Trends-Staying updated on market trends, competitor products, and new, innovative ingredients.
• Documentation-Keeping detailed records of formulas, procedures, and test results for regulatory compliance.
• Scale-Up & Production-Transitioning lab batch formulas to large-scale, commercial manufacturing.
• Technical Knowledge-Strong background in chemistry, particularly in emulsion, surfactant, and raw material interactions.
• Communication-Must effectively communicate within the company and with customers and vendors.
• Creativity-Developing unique textures and sensory experiences for consumer products.
• Assist supervisors with assigning projects, answering customers and other departments’ questions, and working with manufacturing to oversee production batches.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or a related scientific discipline.
• 3-5+ years of experience of formulation within Skincare/haircare/OTC required
• Assist with mentoring and training junior staff.
• MUST know how to formulate OTCs, ex. Sunscreens, anti-acne, & anti-dandruff
• Hands-on experience in formulation chemistry, preferably with surfactant systems, emulsions, and dispersion formulations.
• Strong laboratory skills, including data recording, method development, and analytical testing.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements is relevant to product formulations.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. and operate standard laboratory equipment safely.

What happens next:

Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry – even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means our team of expert Science & Clinical recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.

This lean, boutique law firm specializes in high stakes litigation against major tech companies with valuations of $15B-$20B. They regularly face off and win against AmLaw 100 firms (i.e. Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Sheppard Mullin) and recently had a matter appear before the Ninth Circuit. The successful candidate will work hand-in-glove with the Managing Partner, benefiting from an incredible level of coaching and mentorship.

Billable hours are very reasonable; a bonus is triggered at 1600 hours, entailing a generous percentage of multimillion dollar settlements, alongside an annual merit-based bonus. Compensation is comparable to BigLaw when considered on an hourly basis.

Comp range DOE, $200k-$250k+

Are you passionate about Generative AI and want to apply it to one of the most impactful domains — cybersecurity?

Join our cutting-edge startup in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we are developing AI systems that transform how organizations understand, detect, and respond to cyber threats.

As an Applied AI Scientist, you’ll bridge AI research and real-world cybersecurity use cases — designing, implementing, and optimizing models that extract, reason, and act on complex security data.

You’ll work closely with cybersecurity experts, AI infrastructure engineers, and stakeholders to build end-to-end GenAI solutions: from concept to deployment.

This role blends deep applied research with practical engineering, ideal for someone eager to push the limits of Generative AI for meaningful impact.

Why Join Us:

• $25M Seed Funding: Strong capital foundation to innovate and scale fast.
• Early Success: Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, validating real-world demand.
• Experienced Leadership: Founders with 25+ years in cybersecurity — previous ventures valued at $3B+.
• Elite AI Leadership: Heads of AI, Engineering, and Product from world-class tech companies.
• Advanced AI Stack: LLMs, embeddings, RAG systems, LangGraph orchestration, and multimodal AI.
• Competitive Compensation: Excellent salary, meaningful equity, and room for technical leadership growth.
• Cybersecurity Knowledge Preferred but Not Required: We’ll teach you the domain — you bring the AI innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

Core Applied AI Research

• Collaborate with cybersecurity researchers and stakeholders to scope AI-driven solutions to security problems (e.g., vulnerability management, code analysis, threat detection).
• Conduct applied research using the latest LLMs and embedding models (Claude, Google GenAI, Unsloth, vLLM).
• Prototype, fine-tune, and evaluate GenAI and RAG/CAG architectures for classification, summarization, reasoning, and context synthesis.
• Perform embedding-level optimization for text, code, and image data using Unsloth, Hugging Face, Voyage, or similar frameworks.

System Development & Integration

• Develop and test end-to-end AI pipelines integrating Milvus or Pinecone for semantic retrieval.
• Build agentic AI systems using LangGraph or similar frameworks to enable autonomous reasoning and task chaining.
• Collaborate with MLOps engineers to deploy and monitor AI models in production securely and efficiently.
• Contribute to synthetic data generation pipelines for fine-tuning and evaluation.

Evaluation & Optimization

• Implement evaluation frameworks using DeepEval and GenAI tools (Claude / Google GenAI) for factuality, reliability, and robustness.
• Optimize model performance across latency, accuracy, and cost using vLLM, quantization, or caching strategies.
• Maintain reproducible experiment tracking with MLflow, Weights & Biases, or internal tools.

Innovation & Leadership

• Stay ahead of GenAI trends — multi-modal reasoning, agentic orchestration, embedding adaptation.
• Explore hybrid LLM deployment strategies (local Unsloth/vLLM + cloud APIs like Claude, Google GenAI).
• Document best practices, share learnings, and mentor junior scientists on applied GenAI workflows.

Qualifications:

Required

• 4+ years in Applied AI / Machine Learning Research / Data Science.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, embeddings, RAG systems, and multimodal learning.
• Proficiency in Python and frameworks like PyTorch, Transformers, Hugging Face, or LangChain.
• Experience in prompt engineering, model evaluation, and retrieval-based reasoning.
• Hands-on experience with vector databases (Milvus / Pinecone) and orchestration frameworks (LangGraph / LangChain).
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across research and engineering functions.

Preferred

• Experience with fine-tuning LLMs or embeddings using Unsloth or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with Claude / Google GenAI APIs for cloud-based inference and evaluation.
• Exposure to cybersecurity or enterprise data (CVEs, pluginText, network or asset logs).
• Prior work on synthetic data generation and evaluation frameworks (DeepEval).
• Experience in a fast-paced startup or applied research environment.

Our Culture & Team

• Collaborative and Mission-Driven: Every project directly advances global cybersecurity.

• World-Class Mentorship: Work with senior experts from top AI and security companies.

• Growth-Oriented: Opportunities to lead GenAI initiatives and own major research tracks.

• Inclusive and Innovative: We value diverse perspectives and open experimentation.

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Wellness and professional development stipends.
• Equity options — your impact equals ownership.
• Access to state-of-the-art GPUs, APIs, and GenAI frameworks.

Kadence is partnered with a bio x AI company in SF, looking for an Applied Research Scientist, for an on-site, full-time position.

The company is a Seed funded biotech operating at the intersection of molecular biology and machine learning.

What This Team Does:

This group sits between pure theory and production.

They:

• Understand the mathematical frameworks from the fundamental research team
• Implement them into high-performance code
• Optimize models for GPUs
• Scale pretraining
• Improve efficiency of inference and training
• Build the infrastructure for new architectures

They do not focus on biological interpretation, this is a strictly ML role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement new architectures from the theory team
• Optimize model code for high-performance training
• Handle model scaling, distributed training, and inference efficiency
• Work closely with the wet lab to ensure tight feedback loops
• Contribute to open-source foundation models and publications

Qualifications:

• Degree in CS, ML, Applied Math, or related
• Strong fundamentals in ML theory, optimization, and deep learning
• Experience building or training models from scratch (not just fine-tuning)
• Experience with PyTorch/JAX
• Strong high-performance computing background
• GitHub showing not mostly Python (C/C++/Julia/etc. is a plus)
• Research pedigree (top schools or top ML teams)

Who Thrives Here:

People who like writing elegant, hardware-aware code, scaling models, and working on fundamental research problems, but with implementation responsibility.

Make a global impact. Lead Teledyne’s enterprise-wide Jurisdiction & Classification (JC) program and partner directly with engineering, product, and business leaders across a diverse technology portfolio.

In this high visibility role, you’ll serve as Teledyne’s subject matter expert for Jurisdiction & Classification (JC), driving global consistency and strengthening our compliance posture worldwide. You’ll shape how advanced technologies move across borders, influence product design, ensure global compliance, and act as the authoritative JC voice across a large, diverse, and innovative technology portfolio. As part of the Corporate International Trade Compliance (CITC) team, you will report to the Chief Trade Compliance Counsel, manage a Corporate Compliance Engineer, and provide indirect leadership to a global net

work of JC Focals.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and enhance Teledyne’s global JC program, providing clear guidance to engineering, product, manufacturing, marketing, and business development teams.
• Monitor U.S. and non U.S. export control regulations and proactively implement holds, updates, and required license adjustments.
• Lead the development, implementation, and training for all JC and technology control processes, tools, and workflows.
• Engage and manage the worldwide JC Focal community through outreach, webinars, workshops, and roster maintenance.
• Maintain and update corporate JC policies, procedures, and training materials.
• Supervise the quality of JC determinations completed across business units.
• Prepare Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) requests via the DECCS portal with CITC review.
• Provide regular JC metrics and reporting to CITC leadership.
• Support investigations, disclosures, M&A due diligence, integration, and other Trade Compliance initiatives.
• Assist Trade Compliance Leads during audits and help drive corrective actions.
• Present at Teledyne’s annual Trade Compliance conference and attend external SME training.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed (approximately 20%, with more travel initially).

What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 8+ years of directly related experience in export controls and JC determinations.
• Strong experience performing structured Orders of Review for JC self determinations or formal requests.
• Deep working knowledge of ITAR, EAR, U.S. Customs regulations, OFAC, and preferably non U.S. export control regimes; experience with Harmonized Systems (HS) classifications a strong plus.
• Ability to interpret complex regulations and write clear reports, procedures, and business communications.
• Comfortable presenting to and advising cross functional stakeholders.
• Experience with Global Trade Management platforms and/or ERPs with Trade Compliance functionality.
• Must be a U.S. Person under ITAR (U.S. citizen, permanent resident meeting ITAR criteria, asylee, or qualifying U.S. incorporated entity employee).

Aivres is a leading data center servers and storage solutions provider committed to delivering innovative technologies that propel the world’s leading industries to new frontiers. We widely deliver and deploy cutting-edge hardware products and designs to major data centers across the US, supporting critical modern applications that include cloud, AI, big data, mass storage, and edge. Our unique JDM model enables open collaboration with partners and customers to develop purpose-built, performance-optimized solutions that tackle different workloads and overcome real-world challenges.

The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for managing the business's supply chain in order to increase and maximize shareholder value. This role will build, develop and maintain the necessary vendor and supplier relationships in order to meet all business goals and objectives. This role will also develop and maintain strong internal controls, policies and procedures throughout the company relative to the procurement of goods and services.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for suppliers management
• Procurement costs management
• Contracts management
• Responsible for business with US. suppliers locally
• Responsible for daily communications and business with US suppliers and BUs
• Responsible for collecting and sorting related information of Suppliers and informing Aivres HQ in time
• Holding meetings with suppliers, analyze and make the related business decision

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Management/Science, preferred major: Supply Chain Management, Procurement Management, Logistics Management
• Related experience working with one of the following companies preferred： Dell/HP/Cisco/Oracle/Quanta/Wistron/Supermicro/Inventec/Seagate/Western Digital /Broadcom /Marvell/ Microchip/Micron, etc.
• Strong orientation to technological strategies and concepts, vendor assessment and strategic sourcing

Job Summary:

Drives the enterprise-wide strategy for IT applications, development, and security, with a strong emphasis on ERP business applications strategy, support and management. Responsible for aligning operational and digital strategies to enhance business processes, streamline workflows, and optimize our use of data and technology. Serves as a strategic partner across executive leadership and IT, guiding the system's transformation into a data-driven, tech-enabled organization.

Job Requirements:

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline: Required
• Advanced training in business informatics, computer science, health and/or hospital administration, or a related discipline: Preferred
• Seven years experience leading application development and IT strategy in a complex healthcare setting: Preferred
• Experience guiding organizations through digital transformation, including cloud migration, data architecture design, and analytics deployment: Preferred

Licenses/Certifications:

• Project management or agile development certification: Preferred

Essential Functions:

• Sets the vision and leads the execution of IT applications and informatics strategy aligned with business goals of the organization, at a system level. Serves as a core member of the IT executive team, influencing digital strategy and enterprise innovation. Leads multi-year roadmaps for application modernization, data infrastructure, and informatics programs, aligned to the organization's transformation goals and objectives. Identifies optimization and enhancement opportunities in the business applications for the organization based on short and long-term goals set for the organization.
• Develops the application portfolio roadmap for the ERP suite and create TCO plans aligned to achieve, leveraging new, innovative technologies where possible, such as A.I. and RPA functions. Oversees the architecture, development, and lifecycle management of operational systems, including (but not limited to) enterprise resource planning (ERP), supporting third-party tools and technologies, and analytics applications as part of the business intelligence capabilities for shared services at the system level. Directs teams of developers, analysts, and IT professionals to deliver high-impact digital solutions.
• Partners to lead data governance, data quality, and interoperability initiatives within the ERP portfolio, connecting with application leaders where needed. Collaborates with analytics and quality teams to leverage informatics in support of business, and operational performance improvement.
• Acts as a key liaison between business executives and operational staff with IT, translating business needs into digital solutions that enhance business, e.g. shared services processes. Drives user adoption of systems through stakeholder engagement, training, and iterative optimization. Leads change management initiatives around system upgrades, workflow redesign, and digital transformation.
• Ensures all systems and data strategies comply with regulatory requirements, including healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH). Establishes governance structures to prioritize IT and informatics initiatives based on business impact and ROI. Measures and reports on the impact of IT solutions on quality, operational efficiency, and performance.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Organizational Requirements:

Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Adventist Health participates in E-Verify. Visit for more information about E-Verify. By choosing to apply, you acknowledge that you have accessed and read the E-Verify Participation and Right to Work notices and understand the contents therein.

About Us

Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 100 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 440 sites of care, including 27 acute care facilities. Founded on Adventist heritage and values, Adventist Health provides care in hospitals, clinics, home care, and hospice agencies in both rural and urban communities. Our compassionate and talented team of more than 38,000 includes employees, physicians, Medical Staff, and volunteers driven in pursuit of one mission: living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for coordinating and supervising maintenance activities to ensure equipment and plant assets are functional and optimized, while limiting operational delays and associated costs. Ensures safe work practices during general maintenance of equipment, including but not limited to installation and repairs. Ensures preventative maintenance of plant assets including mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, automation, HVAC, plumbing systems, structures, buildings, production machinery, boilers and ammonia refrigeration are routinely taking place and evaluated.

Position Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Working through direct reports, ensures that plant equipment is maintained in optimum operating condition to avoid, or minimize, production down-time and costs
• Responds urgently to equipment related production issues and downtime by assigning repair work as soon as issues are identified
• Develops, maintains and administers all aspects of the critical spare parts and inventory
• Ensures timely completion of work orders; repairs, and preventative maintenance and documentation of all maintenance activities
• Approves all parts orders within approved purchasing limits and budgets
• Continually assess maintenance effectiveness and works with production team to identify opportunities for improvement, production optimization and maintenance planning
• Work with other departments and individuals to effectively coordinate equipment and building maintenance activities
• Responsible for providing after-hours maintenance resources by calling in appropriate maintenance staff; responds personally in critical or complicated situations
• Ensures that all maintenance storage and work areas in a neat, safe and secure condition
• Actively participate in continuous improvement initiatives, while achieving budgeted goals for efficiency on an on-going basis
• Provides necessary guidance, technical support, and training to ensure that all employees work safely and comply with food safety programs
• Ensures compliance with all quality and food safety programs through regular adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s) according to company and customer expectations
• Responsible for all supervisory activities including, but not limited to; new hire orientation and training, scheduling, performance evaluations, discipline, coaching, safety training and employee development, along with recommendations for hiring and terminations.
• Assures that associates have all the proper tools, equipment and parts in proper working condition to perform their necessary job duties
• Facilitates and promotes a team concept by working with associates as a team member through coaching, leading, listening, coordinating and supporting
• Conducts counseling sessions and issue disciplinary action as necessary
• Provides assistance to and follow-up with outside contractors performing work on-site
• Performs other duties as assigned

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or equivalent knowledge and skills acquired through on the job training or experience
• 5+ years supervisor experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably food manufacturing or consumer goods industry
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with employees at all levels of the organization
• Must possess a strong leadership skill
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Solid decision-making skills and a strong sense of urgency
• Solid technical troubleshooting skills
• Ability to handle multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment

The Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to work, climb stairs and ladders, and reach with hands and arms.
• Position occasionally requires climbing to high elevations.
• Employee is required to stand; use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds and at times up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc. (AFNA) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. AFNA does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis protected by stated, federal, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

• Salary: $100,000+ DOE 
• 15% annual bonus based on performance.