Engineering Journal Jobs in Usa

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*THIS IS AN UNPAID INTERNSHIP, WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.*

*WE ARE SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR INTERNS WHO WORK WITH RECORDING ARTISTS, FILM/TV/LIVE SOUND ENGINEERS ARE NOT IDEAL CANDIDATES.*

Company Description

Invite Only Studios is an experiential recording and photography studio based in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Our multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art space has only been around since October 2019, but we have hosted many clients since then. To name a few, we have hosted Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Darren Barnett (2021 People Choice Awards Winner) and Offset. We have also hosted events for ESPN, KIDinaKORNER (Imagine Dragons), Swizz Beats, Snoop Dogg, Def Jam Recordings, Russ, Saint JHN and Nike. In addition, we have created musical content for brands such as Starbucks, JP Morgan-Chase, Sunny D, Summer's Eve, Wendy's and Weight Watchers.

In addition, we work with several indie artists and assist them in their journeys to propel their careers. At Invite Only we welcome creativity from anyone who is willing to contribute ideas. If you think this role would suit you please apply as soon as you can!

Job Description

This role is intended for candidates seeking to advance their careers as Audio Engineers, particularly those with regular experience working with recording artists.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Being present for sessions and available to complete tasks for clients.
• Going on runs for clients and staff when necessary.
• Maintaining studio cleanliness & etiquette.
• Completing projects dictated by studio management as directed.
• Maintaining a positive attitude, enthusiasm, and willingness to be as effective as possible.

Skills & Qualifications

• Some type of educational training in audio engineering.
• Knowledge and experience in Pro Tools.
• Troubleshooting equipment & signal flow.
• Excellent time management & organization skills.

DISCLAIMER(S):

*THIS IS AN UNPAID INTERNSHIP, WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.*

*WE ARE SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR INTERNS WHO WORK WITH RECORDING ARTISTS, FILM/TV/LIVE SOUND ENGINEERS ARE NOT IDEAL CANDIDATES.*

Open date: January 6, 2026

Most recent review date: Friday, Feb 6, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The School of Journalism is recruiting for a Director of Special Academic Programs (Academic Coordinator I). This position will be responsible for coordinating the School's summer undergraduate minor, overseeing the undergraduate program overall, helping with coordination of the California Newsroom Fellowship program, and managing other special academic programs.

50% of this position will be dedicated to managing the Undergraduate Minor. The Director (AC) will work with the Undergraduate Advisor and Journalism Staff to manage the undergraduate minor program over Summer 2026 and Summer 2027. The AC will manage all of the academic administration for the program, which includes: working with the Associate Dean to review applicants and participate in interviews; helping to manage Academic Student Employees (ASEs); working with Summer Sessions to advertise classes and participate in workshops or other trainings; leading orientation and training for summer lecturers; and assisting summer lecturers with a variety of academic matters, including curriculum planning, evaluating exceptional student requests, training instructors on the Learning Management Software (known as bCourses), handling classroom incidents or referring to the appropriate campus departments, facilitating incomplete grades resolution, facilitating grade appeals process including informal resolution, and assisting with DSP exam proctoring.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

Program Administration & Student Management:

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• Oversee the day-to-day management of the minor, including student enrollment, scholarship arrangements, and information dissemination.
  
• Serve as the primary liaison for curriculum planning, working with the executive and curriculum committees to ensure core and elective course availability.
  
• Lead program promotion, managing communications, and maintaining the website.
  

Summer Session Management:

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• Serve as the key lead for Summer Sessions, managing hiring, class coordination, and reporting.
  
• Collaborate closely with the Undergraduate Advisor, Journalism staff, AP Analyst, and Student Services team to meet hiring deadlines for instructors and Academic Student Employees (ASE).
  
• The AC will work through August 30, 2027 to see the completion of summer session appointments and help instructors with final grade submissions & final offboarding.
  

Expansion & Access:

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• Drive significant expansion of enrollment for the minor.
  
• Explore establishing the minor as a system-wide offering accessible to other UC students.
  
• Develop a professional pipeline, including pre-college course offerings for high school students.
  
• Work to establish a 4+1 BA/MJ degree to facilitate access to graduate-level Journalism education.
  
• Explore expanding the minor into a full undergraduate major.
  
• Curriculum & Content: Act as a crucial thought partner to continuously update the curriculum, ensuring it reflects new technologies and political realities within the rapidly evolving journalism industry.
  

Faculty Engagement:

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• Help maintain and increase engagement with the teaching faculty, including Berkeley Senate professors and journalists from top newsrooms.
  

25% of this position will be dedicated to supporting the California News Fellowship program. The AC will have a central role in the Fellowship Program and its integration with the wider curriculum. Responsibilities include managing the admissions and selection process, such as reviewing applications and participating in the selection of each new cohort. The AC will also review the annual operations handbook to identify development opportunities. Crucially, the AC acts as a system overseer for the fellowship, bridging training opportunities with the graduate curriculum. The AC will be a key thought partner and leader in creating a partnership between the fellowship and the undergraduate minor program, exploring collaborations like joint projects and developing shared training opportunities.

25% of this position will be dedicated to managing the School's other special academic programs which includes the Business Journalism Certificate Program, and the Masters of Journalism/Masters Public Health. The AC would take ownership of these programs and would manage the coordination of all of our special graduate programs as needed across the curriculum.

Possibility of reappointment may be considered based on performance and need of the School.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent international degree.
  

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• Professional background in journalism profession or journalism-adjacent fields.
  
• Demonstrated administrative experience, preferably in higher education settings.
  
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgement and make difficult decisions, including addressing instructor performance issues in a fair and professional manner.
  
• Capacity to engage in conflict resolution and problem solving, particularly in situations involving classroom challenges, student concerns.
  
• Strong organization and program management skills.
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to present confidently to students, faculty or other stakeholders.
  
• Demonstrated leadership, with a track record of accountability, integrity, and collaborative decision-making.
  
• Proficiency with technology systems used in academic program delivery, including learning management systems (Canvas preferred).
  
• Familiarity with curriculum development and academic policy within journalism or related disciplines.
  
• Experience in academic coordination within a university environment.
  
• Capacity to design, implement, and communicate program policies and procedures effectively.
  

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  
  

• Cover Letter - Please describe your experience as it relates to this position, specifically work done in an academic setting.

  
  

• 3 required (contact information only)

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UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

For more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

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• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
  
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
  
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
  
• APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment
  

Open date: January 5, 2026

Most recent review date: Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Tuesday, Jan 5, 2027 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley is accepting applications for qualified temporary, part-time instructors to teach both during the regular academic-year year and in our Summer Minor program. Applicants will be reviewed for positions as needs arise. As a professional school, the School of Journalism is seeking practitioners to bring real-world experience to the classroom. Among the needs we generally have, we are often seeking practitioners with skills in:

- News writing and reporting, either in daily reporting or long-form narrative writing.

- Video news, including documentary filmmaking or short form video storytelling.

- Audio news, including podcasting, radio reporting, audio editing or sound design.

- Multimedia storytelling, including visual design, audience engagement, social media, emerging story forms like VR/AR, and mobile platforms.

- Data journalism, including data visualization, data coding (Python or R), spreadsheets, public records, and similar tools used for data-driven stories.

- Topical expertise, including but not limited to climate change, science, politics, business, race and inequality, investigative reporting, or other topical expertise.

The School seeks candidates who can support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy. Instructors will be offered pedagogical training on inclusive teaching practices to ensure their teaching materials come from the widest range of perspectives.

Appointments for primary instructors will be made in the Lecturer title. Time commitments vary depending on the class, but are typically one day a week of teaching for two or three hours. Other duties include ancillary responsibilities like holding office hours, assigning grades, attending appropriate meetings / orientations, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g., syllabus), and maintaining a course website. Candidates may also be considered for hourly appointments as Teacher-Special Programs (TSP). TSPs teach a narrow subject as part of another course, or assist courses in other ways. Time commitments for TSPs vary, and in most cases are only for a limited period of the semester.

Unless otherwise noted, it should be expected that classes will be held in-person so candidates will be required in most cases to physically teach at UC Berkeley campus. Please refer to our job openings link for any limited remote-teaching opportunities.

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Bachelor's degree or equivalent international degree, or 10 years of professional journalism experience.

Advanced degree, Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) plus five years of professional journalism experience, or 10 years of professional journalism experience.

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) and 10 years of professional journalism experience, or journalism-adjacent experience. Ideal candidates will have worked as journalists, or in journalism-adjacent environments, and have experience in publishing, editing, or creating content for public consumption. Teaching and mentorship experience is preferred but not required, and may include college teaching, conference workshops, mentorship programs, or other forms of instruction.

In addition, a demonstrated record of professional achievement, such as significant published work, journalism awards, or other accomplishments is preferred.

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  
  

• Cover Letter (Optional)

  
  

• Statement of Teaching - Please discuss prior teaching experience, teaching approach, and future teaching interests. This can include, for example, specific efforts, accomplishments, and future plans to support the success of all students through curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy to support a wide range of experience and backgrounds.

  
  
  

  If there is no teaching experience, please discuss your teaching approach and values you plan to uphold in the classroom setting/as an educator.

  
  
  

  You are encouraged to specify a preferred course(s) in your cover letter. Please note that the department reserves the right to assign candidates the course(s) for which they are best suited, as determined by their application materials and interview.

  
  

• 3 required (contact information only)

Candidates will be notified before the references are contacted and only after an interview is performed.

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UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

For more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

• 
  
• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
  
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
  
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
  
• APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment
  

Job Summary:

The ASM International Journals Department seeks a highly organized and detail-oriented Journals Administrator to provide editorial and organizational support to our publishing team. This role provides essential administrative support to our journal editors and associate editors, coordinates volunteer activities, and assists content developers in the production of the 9 ASM technical journals.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide editorial and administrative support in the acquisition, tracking, and processing of content for publications developed by the Content Development group for the ASM technical journals.
• Answer queries from ASM staff, member technical editorial staff, reviewers, and authors on editorial philosophy, policy, and style. Implement improvements and updates to online submission and peer review sites.
• Provide updated content for ASM journal web pages on an ongoing basis. Prepare highlight copy for selected journal articles for eNews and magazine supplements.
• Assist with meeting preparation and follow-up for activities of journal committees and editorial boards.
• Organize and oversee the archive print copies of the ASM journals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, or a related field.
• Experience, preferably in academic publishing, scientific research environments, or scholarly communications is helpful, but not necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational abilities with meticulous attention to detail, and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and database management systems.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while working both independently and collaboratively is essential.
• Experience working with volunteers, or similar experience.
• Highly developed skills in a team environment.

About ASM International

As the world’s largest and most established materials information society, ASM connects a global network of materials experts and provides access to trusted materials information through reference content, data and research, education courses, and international events.

Mission: To gather, process, and disseminate materials information globally through education, networking, and professional development.

Vision: To be the leading global resource for materials information.

Open date: March 5, 2026

Next review date: Friday, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Friday, Apr 10, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The Chang Lab, led by PI Serina Chang, is part of the Berkeley EECS Department, the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI).

We are seeking a postdoc to work on projects at the intersection of AI and human behavior, including modeling human behavior with AI, building AI tools to support societal decision-making, and studying the impacts of AI on society. Potential projects include:

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2. Developing AI models of individuals that can accurately simulate complex behaviors across modalities, supported by rich, individual-level data including mobility trajectories, surveys, in-depth interviews, and health behaviors and outcomes.
   
3. Scaling simulations to entire societies with millions of agents, developing robust validation of societal simulations, and applying societal simulations to inform decisions in high-stakes domains (e.g., public health, emergency response).
   
4. Studying the impacts of generative AI on human health and well-being, from individual-level human-AI interactions (e.g., mental health risks, health decision-making) to community-level dynamics (e.g., changing support networks, engagement with health systems).
   

The selected candidate will assist with leading research projects, work closely with PI Serina Chang, mentor junior students in the lab, and help with the management of the lab.

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PhD degree or equivalent international degree, or enrolled in a PhD or equivalent international degree granting program

PhD degree or equivalent international degree

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• PhD in Computer Science or closely related field
  
• Demonstrated record of publications in relevant computer science venues and/or general science journals
  
• Experience with training and evaluating generative AI models, working with large-scale messy datasets (e.g., mobility data, health data), and interdisciplinary research (e.g., computational social science, AI for health)
  
• 2-year postdoc is preferred, but we will consider applications for 1-year postdocs
  

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  
  

• Representative paper - Please include one research paper where you played a substantial role and that are representative of your work and interests.

  
  

• Second Representative paper - Please include one research paper where you played a substantial role and that is representative of your work and interests.

  
  

• Statement of Research - (max 4 pages). Please discuss your past research and accomplishments (e.g., publications, awards, presentations, evidence of real-world impact). Please also describe your plans for future research, especially how they would align with this position.

  
  

• Mentorship statement - (max 1 page). Please describe your past experience with mentoring junior students, including PhD students, master's, or undergraduate, and your philosophy towards mentorship. This could include mentoring students on research projects and/or teaching experience.

  
  

• 3 required (contact information only)

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UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

For more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

• 
  
• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
  
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
  
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
  
• APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment
  

Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies, with a bold vision: to power every human decision in the enterprise. We believe the future belongs to organizations that combine human imagination with intelligent systems—and Fractalites are the ones building that future. As we scale our Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) practice in the United States, we are looking for a senior, client-facing Head of Engineering to shape and deliver world-class Data & AI platforms for leading Technology, Media & Telecom organizations.

This is not a back-office engineering role. This is a consulting-led, client-facing engineering leadership position for someone who is equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture with principal engineers, rolling up their sleeves with delivery teams, and advising CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs in the boardroom.

Learn more at Fractal | Intelligence for Imagination.

Note: This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship at this time.

About the Role

This is a four-axis leadership role requiring technical depth, executive presence, team leadership, and embedded delivery. You'll work directly with top technical and functional leaders at some of the largest TMT companies in the world.

As Head of Engineering for Fractal's Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) vertical, you will personally shape the architecture of mission-critical AIML platforms, often in first-party tech stack, and develop/drive the team of ICs who bring them to life.

Responsibilities

Some engagements will look like a traditional advisory model. Others will look a lot more like Forward Deployed Engineering: your team embedded inside a client's engineering org, working within their first-party tech stack, shipping production code alongside their engineers, and earning influence through technical credibility, not org chart position.

You will need to be in the room when the technology roadmap needs to change. When a business pivot, a new regulation, or a technology shift forces a rethink mid-execution, you are the person who picks up the marker, walks to the whiteboard, and redraws the architecture in real time, credibly, for the CTO, and Principal Engineering leaders simultaneously.

Technical Depth (Hands-On Architecture)

• Own AI/Data platform architecture decisions — from Lakehouse design and real-time streaming to MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps pipelines in production
• Serve as the technical authority for Fractal's TMT engineering practice — defining standards, reviewing design, and holding the bar on reliability, scalability, and security
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete, buildable platform architectures — and stay close enough to execution to know when something is not working
• Drive the industrialization of GenAI: moving clients from proof-of-concept to enterprise-grade, governed, and observable AI systems

Executive Presence & Live Architectural Thinking

• Command the room with senior client leadership — CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and their direct reports - as a peer, not a vendor
• Whiteboard new architectural directions on the spot: when a business pivot, acquisition, regulatory shift, or technology breakthrough forces a mid-execution rethink, you synthesize it into a credible, buildable path forward live, in the room, without needing a week to prepare a deck
• Translate between two worlds simultaneously: make the architecture legible to a CFO and rigorous enough to satisfy a principal engineer in the same session
• Shape client roadmaps at the strategic level; identifying where the current plan is under-ambitious, over-engineered, or misaligned with emerging AI capabilities, and steering accordingly
• Represent Fractal at the highest level of client relationship

Team Leadership (Building & Driving Senior ICs)

• Develop and lead a high-performing group of individual contributors. principally senior and staff engineers, ML engineers, and data platform engineers
• Create the engineering culture: rigorous delivery standards, architectural thinking, and a bias toward elegant, production-grade solutions over quick fixes
• Build leadership depth within the team, identifying principals who can own programs and grow into broader roles
• Partner across Fractal's global AI and engineering Capability functions to staff programs strategically and raise capability across the TMT practice

Forward-Deployed & Embedded Delivery

• Lead and run FDE-style engagements where your team operates inside the client's engineering environment
• Navigate and deliver within client-owned, first-party technology stacks: proprietary data platforms, internal ML infrastructure, custom orchestration systems, and bespoke toolchains that do not appear in any industry survey
• Adapt quickly to non-standard environments, understanding a client's internal platform deeply enough to extend it, integrate into it, and earn the trust of their engineering staff
• Balance the tension between what Fractal does best and what the client's stack demands, knowing when to bring pattern, when to adapt, and when to advocate for a better path
• Set the standards for how Fractal operates in deeply embedded engagements: how we onboard, document, transfer knowledge, and leave clients stronger than we found them

Candidate Profile

Technical Qualifications

TMT clients bring genuinely hard problems on both open and proprietary infrastructure. Expect to architect and oversee:

• GenAI systems: RAG architectures, LLM fine-tuning pipelines, agentic workflow orchestration, and LLMOps observability
• AI-powered products: personalization engines, churn prediction, content recommendation, and network fault detection
• Client-proprietary ML infrastructure: internal feature stores, custom model serving layers, bespoke experiment tracking systems, and first-party orchestration frameworks
• Cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP with enterprise-grade governance, security, and compliance baked in
• Real-time and event driven data pipelines (e.g. network telemetry)
• Modern Lakehouse platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, Iceberg) at petabyte scale and proprietary data platform equivalents at leading tech-forward TMT organizations

Non-technical Qualifications

We are particularly interested in leaders from environments where engineering rigor, client accountability, executive presence, and AI depth all coexist including Forward Deployed Engineering, elite data/ML platform teams, and senior hyperscaler architecture practices.

• 15–20 years of experience spanning AI/data engineering and technical leadership with clear evidence of owning architecture at scale
• Deep hands-on experience deploying AI/ML/GenAI systems in production, in addition to advising on them
• Demonstrated executive presence: you have walked into a CTO or CDO review, redrawn the architecture based on new constraints, and left the room with alignment
• The ability to whiteboard fluently under pressure, synthesizing a team's in-flight work with a new business direction, making it rigorous enough for engineers and clear enough for executives, on the spot and without a rehearsal
• Experience operating within client-owned or non-standard technology stacks - you have learned a proprietary system, earned trust from skeptical internal engineers, and delivered production-grade results inside someone else's infrastructure
• A track record of leading senior engineers and building high-performance ML/engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing principal-level ICs
• Direct executive engagement experience - you have influenced CIO/CTO/CDO decisions and can hold your own in a room with technical and non-technical stakeholders at once
• Strong cloud-native fluency across one or more hyperscalers, with genuine depth in data platform patterns (streaming, batch, Lakehouse, governance)

Strong Preferences

• Experience in TMT vertical — hi-tech, telco, media platforms, streaming infrastructure, ad tech, or content delivery at scale
• Prior work in FDE-style or embedded delivery models where your team shipped inside a client codebase and was evaluated by their engineering standards, not just deliverable milestones
• Comfort with the ambiguity of 1P stack environments: you have debugged undocumented internal tools, extended proprietary frameworks, and figured out how to make external expertise land inside a closed ecosystem
• A personal reputation for architectural clarity: the person colleagues call when a problem needs to be drawn, not just describe
• Contributions to the ML/AI community: open source, publications, conference talks, or influential architectural patterns

Who Thrives Here

The Fractalite mindset is curious, rigorous, and impact driven. You will thrive in this role if you:

• Enjoy being client-facing and accountable for outcomes.
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, scale, and complex stakeholder environments.
• Believe great platforms come from strong engineering culture plus disciplined execution.
• See AI not as a novelty, but as a core enterprise capability that must be engineered responsibly.

Fractal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

It All Starts with Our People

As the leader in automotive preventive maintenance, Valvoline has a proven track record of growth. We continue to invest in our people, processes, and technology to strengthen our ability to efficiently deliver Quick, Easy, Trusted service across all our stores – every day. We're not just in the car business; we're in the people business. And we're looking for humble, hungry, and smart people to help us shape the future of mobility. If you're hungry to drive change and seek a dynamic, collaborative environment that fuels both personal and professional growth, you've found your place with us.

Our highest priority is creating a welcoming workplace with team members from a wide variety of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

How You'll Make a Difference

Valvoline has a rewarding opportunity as a Director, Quality Engineering. In this role, you’ll be a strategic and hands-on leader who will drive the transformation of quality across our technology organization. This leader will be responsible for building and scaling a modern Quality Engineering function that goes beyond traditional QA, with ownership spanning QA environments, test automation, AI-enabled quality practices, quality governance, best practices, and the establishment of a Quality Engineering Center of Excellence (COE).

The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of leadership, technical depth, operating model design, and change management, with the ability to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This role will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Delivery teams to create a scalable, efficient, and forward-looking quality strategy that supports speed, reliability, and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Engineering Strategy & Leadership

• Define and lead the enterprise Quality Engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned to Valvoline’s broader technology and business priorities.
• Shift the organization from traditional testing approaches to a modern quality engineering model focused on prevention, automation, continuous validation, and measurable quality outcomes.
• Establish quality as a shared responsibility across product, engineering, and delivery teams while maintaining strong governance and standards.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of quality engineers, automation engineers, and QA leaders.

QA Center of Excellence (COE)

• Build and operationalize a Quality Engineering Center of Excellence (COE) to define frameworks, standards, tooling, reusable assets, and governance processes.
• Create enterprise-wide best practices for test design, automation, environment strategy, defect management, release readiness, and quality metrics.
• Standardize quality processes across portfolios while allowing for flexibility based on product and platform needs.
• Develop playbooks, templates, training, and maturity models to improve quality capability across teams.

Automation & Tooling

• Define and execute an enterprise test automation strategy across UI, API, integration, data, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing.
• Drive adoption of scalable automation frameworks and ensure integration with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Evaluate, select, and optimize quality tools and platforms to improve speed, coverage, traceability, and reporting.
• Increase automation efficiency and effectiveness by implementing reusable components, common libraries, and engineering best practices.

AI-Enabled Quality Engineering

• Lead the adoption of AI and intelligent automation within quality engineering, including opportunities such as:

test case generation

intelligent defect triage

predictive risk analysis

self-healing automation

release quality insights

test optimization and prioritization

• Assess emerging AI capabilities and define practical use cases that improve quality outcomes, team productivity, and speed to market.
• Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to ensure AI solutions are implemented responsibly, securely, and at scale.

QA Environments & Test Data Management

• Own the strategy for QA environments, including environment planning, availability, stability, governance, and optimization.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to improve environment readiness, reduce bottlenecks, and support parallel delivery.
• Establish strong processes for test data management, environment provisioning, and integration dependency coordination.
• Drive improvements in environment monitoring and readiness reporting to reduce delays and improve release confidence.

Governance, Metrics & Best Practices

• Define and implement quality KPIs, SLAs, dashboards, and scorecards to provide visibility into quality performance, automation maturity, defect trends, release risk, and environment health.
• Set standards for quality gates, entry/exit criteria, defect leakage reduction, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Build a culture of measurable quality and operational discipline through governance routines, audits, and executive reporting.
• Ensure best practices are embedded into agile delivery, DevSecOps, and release management processes.

Sourcing & Vendor Management

• Define the sourcing strategy for quality engineering capabilities, including the right balance of internal talent, strategic partners, and offshore/onshore vendor models.
• Lead vendor evaluation, selection, governance, and performance management related to quality engineering and testing services.
• Optimize spend, capability, and service quality across external partners while ensuring alignment to Valvoline standards and delivery expectations.
• Build workforce strategies that support both immediate delivery needs and long-term capability development.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and PMO leaders to embed quality into planning, design, development, and release processes.
• Influence senior stakeholders on quality investments, transformation priorities, and operating model improvements.
• Support mission-critical initiatives by ensuring strong quality planning, risk management, and execution.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software quality engineering
• 5+ years leading enterprise QA teams
• Experience in high-volume retail, omnichannel, or consumer-facing environments strongly preferred
• Deep experience with:

Automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.)

API testing tools

CI/CD tools

Performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner, etc.)

• Experience leading QA in Agile/SAFe or hybrid environments
• Experience using agentic tools for test development and integrating work with agentic code development (ie: Github Copilot, Claude code)
• Proven track record reducing defect escape rates

Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise systems thinker
• Data-driven decision maker
• Builder of scalable processes
• Collaborative but boundary-setting partner
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced retail cycles
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

We Take Care of the WHOLE You

• Health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision)
• HSA and flexible spending accounts
• 401(k)
• Incentive opportunity*
• Life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays*
• Employee Assistance Program
• Valvoline Instant Oil Change discounts
• Tuition reimbursement*
• Adoption assistance*

*Terms and conditions apply, and benefits may differ depending on position.

Your Path to Valvoline

Valvoline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Join us in revolutionizing the automotive aftermarket industry while enjoying competitive benefits, a supportive work culture, and opportunities for advancement. Apply now and become an integral part of our journey at Valvoline.

The Company endeavors to make its recruitment process accessible to any and all users. Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request to applicants with disabilities to facilitate equal opportunity throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at 1.833.VVV.Report or email to make a request for reasonable accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. The contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

Location: Remote: Reside close to (Exton, PA)

Portfolio: Allen‑Sherman‑Hoff (ASH) Engineered Material‑Handling Systems (ANDRITZ)

About the Role

Allen‑Sherman‑Hoff (ASH), an ANDRITZ business, delivers engineered material‑handling systems that support power generation, biomass, and pulp & paper facilities operating in demanding, continuous‑run environments. Although ASH is technically an OEM, we operate far more like an A&E/EPC engineering firm: we deliver system‑level engineered solutions, integrating ASH proprietary equipment with structural, mechanical, electrical, and quality requirements to meet strict performance expectations.

We are seeking a Project Manager with power, energy, utilities, or EPC/A&E engineered‑systems project experience, someone who has led large, customer‑facing technical projects through engineering, fabrication, manufacturing, quality, and site support.

If your background is in internal manufacturing operations, IT/telecom deployments, or continuous improvement, this role is not a match. We need a PM who understands industrial plant environments, engineered equipment, and the rigor of technical project delivery.

What You Will Do

Lead Full Lifecycle Execution (Sales Handover → Final Turnover)

• Own the delivery of engineered ASH material‑handling systems across power, biomass, and pulp & paper facilities.
• Drive engineering, drafting, and calculation packages to meet scope, schedule, and contractual requirements.
• Coordinate and unblock fabrication/manufacturing, ensuring manufacturability and compliance.
• Manage supplier RFQs, subcontractor performance, expediting, and logistics.

Quality & Technical Documentation Leadership

• Manage ITPs, weld maps, NDE requirements, pressure tests, dimensional checks, and documentation packages essential to engineered‑equipment delivery.
• Validate compliance to ASME/AWS, customer specifications, and ASH quality standards.

Schedule, Cost, and Risk Management

• Maintain schedule baselines using Primavera P6.
• Oversee cost performance, margin drivers, change control, and contract compliance.
• Identify and mitigate technical and execution risks early.

Customer‑Facing Project Leadership

• Serve as the primary interface between the customer and ANDRITZ technical teams.
• Prepare and deliver technical and commercial progress reports.
• Support site activities (FAT, readiness reviews, installation coordination, commissioning support).

What You Bring

Required

• Experience in A&E/EPC, power generation, utilities, or industrial engineered‑systems delivery.
• (Examples: material handling, conveying systems, rotating equipment, mechanical process systems, boiler/balance‑of‑plant equipment).
• Proven ability to lead engineering‑heavy, customer‑facing projects with strict contractual and QA requirements.
• Hands‑on coordination with engineering, fabrication, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and field service.
• Experience managing ITPs, weld maps, NDE, pressure tests, QA documentation, and technical turnover packages.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and Oracle or similar ERP.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Construction Management OR 5+ years of relevant engineered‑systems PM experience.

Preferred

• Power plant, utilities, biomass, or pulp & paper industry experience.
• Background in ash handling, bulk material handling, or mechanical systems integration.
• PMP or CAPM certification.
• Experience with retrofit, outage, upgrade, or brownfield scopes.

Work Model

• Remote with periodic travel to Exton, PA, fabrication shops, and customer facilities for inspections, FATs, readiness reviews, and site support.
• Travel expected but varies by project phase.

Why This Role Matters

Your work directly affects the reliability, uptime, and environmental performance of major industrial facilities. When you execute well, a power plant runs cleaner, a pulp mill avoids downtime, and a customer sees ASH as a trusted engineering partner. This is real engineering impact, not back‑office project tracking.

*All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics.