Engineering Jobs in Saratoga, CA

Job Title: Technical Program Manager

Location: US - CA - Sunnyvale (940890) or Redmond - WA - preferred

Contract: 12 Months

Pay Rate: $115.74/hr, W2

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and Weekly Pay

Job Summary:

The main function of a Technical Program Manager, Audio is to provide successful hardware module definition, implementation and delivery of complex programs that require cross-functional collaboration and interdependencies across a group of projects and/or related activities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deliver audio hardware programs within the constraints of scope, quality, time, budget and risk factors.
• Program-level strategic planning, interaction with engineering team and management, complex issue resolution, excellent communications and team building skills.
• Oversight of project scope definition and management, requirements gathering and documentation, project schedule development and tracking, project budget management, project status reporting, hardware build management, issue and risk management, contingency planning, customer interaction, and communications across multiple organizational levels.
• Plan and drive engineering deliverables, such as audio subsystem specifications, DOEs, ECNs and validation results.

Skills:

• Project estimating, project scheduling & tracking, customer interaction and management, implementation planning in large organizations
• Proven people management and team building skills
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible/ adaptable in exercising judgment in a changing environment and to manage competing priorities
• Proven ability to learn business processes quickly and to work well with business partners at different levels within the organization
• Strong ability to assess risk and apply management principles to technology applications/products and business functions
• Experience with hardware product development lifecycle
• Experience with working with vendors, including flexing hours when needed for and travel if needed for on-site support

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
• 5-8 years of audio TPM or Engineering experience with consumer products- phones, tablets, watches, glasses, or similar.
• PMP or PMI certification preferred.

Must Have:

• Experience in effective project management working with audio vendors.
• Ability to support technical solutions
• Ability to support from prototype to build
• Mechanical and manufacturing background

Nice to Have:

• Mandarin speaking candidates - strongly preferred
• Speaker and microphone manufacturing
• previous Google, Amazon and big tech experience i.e. Apple

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

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We are seeking a Senior Robotic Simulation Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in building high-fidelity simulation environments and synthetic data pipelines using NVIDIA Isaac Sim or similar.

In this role, you will directly contribute to the development of scalable, realistic virtual worlds that power the training and validation of robotic foundation models for perception, planning, and manipulation.

At GM’s manufacturing technology development team, you’ll work closely with robotics and AI teams within the Manufacturing Technology Development (MTD) team to create simulation scenes that replicate complex manufacturing environments, generate diverse synthetic datasets, and build robust data workflows that accelerate model development and deployment.

Key Responsibilities • Build and customize simulation scenes in Isaac Sim that accurately reflect real-world robotic tasks and factory layouts • Develop synthetic data generation pipelines, including randomized object placement, sensor simulation, and multi-modal annotations (RGB, depth, segmentation, point clouds) • Implement and maintain data processing workflows, ensuring data quality, traceability, and compatibility with ML training pipelines • Optimize simulation performance and realism, tuning physics parameters, asset fidelity, and rendering configurations for scalable experimentation • Collaborate with robotics engineers and ML scientists to align simulation outputs with model requirements and support sim2real transfer • Conduct hands-on testing and debugging, iterating on simulation setups and synthetic data strategies to improve model robustness • Document workflows and contribute to best practices, enabling reproducibility and knowledge sharing across teams Required Qualifications • MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or related field • 3+ years of hands-on experience in robotics simulation, synthetic data generation, or virtual environment development • Proficiency with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, or similar simulation platforms • Strong programming skills in Python and C++, with experience in simulation APIs and data annotation tools • Familiarity with 3D vision, sensor modeling, and domain randomization techniques • Experience integrating simulation outputs into ML pipelines for training and evaluation Preferred Qualifications • Experience with robotics frameworks (e.g., ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, Nav2) • Experience with robotics simulation platforms (e.g., IsaacSim, MoJoCo, Gazebo) or Game engine (e.g., Unreal, Unity) • Background in industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, or robotic manipulation • Publications or contributions in simulation, synthetic data, or robotics venues (e.g.

ICRA, RSS, CVPR) • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development practices such as Bash, Github, Bazel, Docker

Talent Acquisition Manager – AI Infrastructure & Engineering

San Francisco, California

Hybrid Working

We are expanding our global team and launching a new office in San Francisco.

WNTD is looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to join our Talent Solutions team and support the continued growth of AI infrastructure and accelerated compute platforms across North America.

This role will support one of the most significant AI infrastructure expansion programmes currently underway, focused on building next generation platforms powered by NVIDIA accelerated compute.

You will work closely with senior technical leaders to attract and hire talent across the full infrastructure stack including software engineering, AI platforms, GPU environments and large scale compute infrastructure.

This is a delivery focused role supporting high growth engineering programmes across AI infrastructure and cloud platforms.

The Role

You will lead hiring across multiple engineering disciplines spanning software engineering, AI infrastructure platforms and high performance compute environments.

Working closely with technical leadership and programme stakeholders, you will build pipelines of high quality candidates and manage fast moving hiring plans across several technical workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage talent pipelines across software engineering, AI infrastructure and GPU compute environments

• Proactively source talent across the United States through mapping, referrals and direct outreach

• Screen candidates for technical capability, experience and long term fit

• Partner with engineering leaders to define hiring priorities and role requirements

• Maintain clear tracking of hiring pipelines and delivery progress

• Support wider Talent Solutions activity during peak delivery phases

• Ensure a professional and consistent candidate experience

• Champion fair and inclusive hiring practices

Key Experience

• Proven experience hiring across complex engineering environments

• Strong track record building pipelines across software and infrastructure roles

• Comfortable engaging with technical stakeholders and discussing engineering topics

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Strong organisation with the ability to manage multiple roles simultaneously

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Opportunity to support one of the fastest growing AI infrastructure build programmes globally

• Growth within a high performing delivery focused team

• Hybrid working model

• A collaborative culture that values ownership, pace and problem solving

Additional Requirements

• Ability to commute to the San Francisco office

• No visa sponsorship available

• Hybrid working model

Job Description:

Mandatory to have working experience as SRE manager especially in Retail domain application support ( NOT CLOUD /DevOps)

Must have working knowledge on SRE principles such as Logs, metrics, availability metrics, uptime, ticket tracking, e-com services, ITIL framework specifically on Alerts, Incident, change management, CAB, Production deployments, Risk and mitigation plan, SLA, SLI, SLO

Hands on experience in Monitoring, Logging, Alerting, Dashboarding, and report generation in any observability tools Prefer DataDog or other tools such as Splunk/Dynatrace/ELK/Grafana). This engagement is a customer using Dynatrace,Splunk, PagerDuty hence it is good to have this expertise

Mandatory to have work experience in leading Level 2/Level 3 application support team based out of IND who provide 24x7 coverage.

Should know how to gather & communicate SRE requirement from customers and define SRE roadmap.

Working experience on how to gather requirements on health of applications, services to monitor, setting service levels.

Must have good knowledge on eCommerce platforms in microservice architecture, Sterling OMS , Retail Applications like XStore.

Should be able to lead P1 calls, brief about the P1 to customer, proactive in gathering leads/ customers into the P1 calls till RCA, PIR etc.

Should have knowledge on building process , framework by following ITSM principles, SOP, runbooks, handling any ITSM platforms (JIRA/ServiceNow/BMC Remedy)

Must know how to work with the Dev team, cross functional teams.

Should be able to generate WSR/MSR by extracting the tickets from ITSM platforms, present to customers and client leaders.

Manage overall SRE delivery, customer focus mindset , closely work with customer leaderships.

Preferred:

Be a client face at customer site collaborating with client leadership.

Ability to clearly communicate and understand a technical idea/concept.

Ability to work in a professional environment while interacting with peers and stakeholders, collaborating with offshore teams.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Motivated, goal driven, influential, innovative, curious, and open minded, fun to work with, collaborator.

Capability to work with people in different time zones.

Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment and appropriately prioritize tasks, and keep abreast of the latest technology.

Collaborate with cloud architecture, infrastructure team, project management team, and technology services, management team.

Create and maintain detailed documentation.

Who We Are:

17A is a new type of management consulting firm. We come from places like McKinsey, Palantir, JP Morgan Philanthropies, and venture-backed Healthcare startups. We share a common goal: improving the quality of government and social services. 17A believes that trust in government is something to be continuously built and earned, through strong service delivery.

We have a dynamic core team, and partner with Consultants, known internally as Project-Based Team Members, to bring the best combination of expertise to what we do. Our team has varied skills from a range of industries and experiences, including management consulting, technology and analytics, and public service. If you've spent the early part of your career in consulting or a fast-paced analytical environment and you're ready to apply those skills to something with direct civic impact, 17A is for you.

The Opportunity:

17A is supporting a large Bay Area county agency on a technology and digital services transformation effort. This is a fully embedded, on-site role — not parachuting in. You'll work inside the agency's digital innovation team, sitting alongside Deputy-level leadership to help the county deliver on its mission to make government more human, more responsive, and more digital. This position is a contract role with the potential to convert to full-time after a few months.

This agency has taken a distinctive approach to transformation: rather than buying expensive new systems and hoping for the best, it's doing the hard, human-centered work of dismantling bureaucracy, redesigning how services are delivered, and building a digital culture from the inside. A core initiative — which brings departments through rapid, structured sprints to identify and address service delivery friction — will be a major focus of this role.

This is a chief-of-staff style position for a sharp, early-career operator ready to take on real ownership. You'll help senior leaders turn strategy into action — managing complex initiatives across departments, facilitating working sessions, and communicating progress clearly to executive and operational audiences.

What You'll Do

• Serve in a chief-of-staff capacity to Deputy-level leaders within the innovation team, helping translate priorities into structured plans and concrete next steps
• Support coordination and execution of digital transformation sprints, including logistics, stakeholder engagement, documentation, and follow-through on recommendations
• Facilitate working sessions with department staff and senior leaders to map current-state processes, identify friction points, and co-design improvements
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional workstreams, tracking progress, surfacing blockers, and keeping stakeholders aligned across a large, multi-department organization
• Prepare executive-level communications including briefings, memos, presentations, and decision documents for senior agency leadership
• Conduct rapid research and analysis to support emerging decisions and evolving priorities
• Help build the internal documentation, playbooks, and operational systems the innovation team needs to scale its impact countywide
• Operate as a collaborative, low-ego team member who is genuinely embedded in the agency's culture and mission

Who You Are

You're 1–2 years into your career and you're looking for a role where you can do meaningful work and see the results directly. You might be a current or former:

• Business Analyst or Associate at a management consulting firm
• Fellow or analyst at a public sector-focused organization (e.g., a government innovation lab, a civic tech organization, or a public agency)
• Analyst in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment where you built strong project management and communication muscles

The Skillset:

You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Are energized by the mission — you genuinely care about improving how government works and the people it serves
• Are comfortable operating with ambiguity and building structure where there isn't any yet
• Have strong project management instincts and can keep multiple workstreams moving simultaneously
• Can communicate clearly and credibly with both frontline staff and senior leaders
• Understand that real transformation requires engineering culture, not just deploying technology
• Are ready to be embedded — not just advisory — and want to see the direct impact of your work
• Are based in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area

Bonus if you have:

• Familiarity with local or county government operations
• Experience with digital services, human-centered design, or service delivery improvement
• Prior exposure to process redesign, organizational change, or operational improvement
• Interest in civic technology and the future of public service delivery

Location:

This position is based out of San Francisco, California and you must reside within the area. If you are interested in remote-only opportunities, please consider joining our Network for future roles.

Compensation:

Due to the nature of our business and the clients that we partner with, compensation for this position (and all of our opportunities) depends on the skillset, tenure, and experience that you possess. This specific position has a range of 90,000- 110,000 annually. Depending on the type of work you do with us, you may be eligible to receive medical benefits and other perks.

Accommodation Statement:

Improving public service delivery requires a team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, domestic violence victim status, prior arrest or conviction record, military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or status with regard to public assistance.

We encourage and welcome applicants who identify with groups traditionally underrepresented in government to apply.

Please contact , if you would like to request reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process.

Not interested in this specific opportunity but want to make an impact with the work you do? Join our Network for future consulting opportunities within the public service sector!

Our client, a Fortune 500 retail organization with a nationwide distribution network, is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to support large-scale construction and facilities engineering procurement initiatives across their supply chain network.

This role plays a key part in sourcing industrial construction materials, equipment, and services for new facility builds, expansions, and ongoing engineering initiatives. The individual will partner closely with engineering, property development, legal, finance, and operations teams to design sourcing strategies that deliver cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and supplier performance improvements.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in construction procurement, contract negotiation, and cost modeling, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive complex sourcing projects from concept through execution.

Projects You’ll Work On

• Leading end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives for industrial construction and facilities engineering categories.
• Developing sourcing strategies for categories such as steel structures, concrete, MEP systems, material handling equipment, racking systems, conveyors, and site services.
• Managing the full sourcing lifecycle including market research, supplier identification, RFP development, bid management, negotiations, and contract execution.
• Conducting construction cost analysis, clean-sheet modeling, and should-cost modeling to identify optimal pricing and savings opportunities.
• Partnering with engineering and development teams to support distribution center construction, expansions, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Managing supplier relationships and performance through KPIs, quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and executive-level supplier meetings.
• Performing spend analysis and market intelligence research to anticipate supply risks and pricing fluctuations.
• Driving cost optimization through value engineering, competitive bidding, and strategic negotiations.
• Supporting facilities engineering teams with sourcing for material handling equipment repair, refurbishment, and replacement.
• Developing presentations and recommendations for executive leadership to support strategic sourcing decisions.

What Experience You Should Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or Business (MBA or advanced degree preferred).
• 5+ years of strategic sourcing or category management experience focused on industrial construction or facilities engineering procurement.
• Experience managing large-scale sourcing projects for construction materials, contractors, or engineering services.
• Strong understanding of construction cost estimation, budgeting, and material cost drivers.
• Experience leading RFP/RFQ processes, supplier negotiations, and contract development.
• Ability to analyze supplier bids using TCO modeling, cost analysis, and financial modeling.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, legal, finance, and project management teams.

What Will Help You Stand Out

• Familiarity with distribution center construction, logistics infrastructure, or retail supply chain environments.
• Experience working with construction management software (e.g., Procore) and sourcing platforms (e.g., Coupa).
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as OSHA, LEED, and construction compliance standards.
• Professional certifications such as CPSM, CCM, or CCPS.
• Strong financial acumen including experience analyzing budgets, cash flow, and cost structures.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, data modeling) and strong presentation capabilities.

Work Environment

• Hybrid role with regular in-office collaboration and occasional travel to facilities and project sites.
• Ability to manage multiple sourcing projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range for this position is up to $200,000.00, depending on experience and qualifications.

The total rewards package may include performance incentives, health benefits, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.

Local to Bay area

1 day onsite @ Oakland office.

Role must interface with both business and engineers; expected to work directly with engineering teams.

Focus is on the enterprise data platform and data engineering; not an analytics/visualization role.

Core technical expectations

Strong data ecosystem background: experience leading data products or data warehousing initiatives.

Solid understanding of schemas, databases, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes; no hands-on coding expected but must be able to engage deeply with engineers and “know what they are talking about.”

Primary data warehouse platform: Snowflake.

Broader big data background acceptable if not purely Snowflake (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).

Current ETL tool: Informatica; hands-on Informatica expertise is not required.

Analytics/visualization not in scope; Power BI knowledge is a nice-to-have, not mandatory.

Role and scope

Titles vary across industry: product owner (PO), project manager, scrum master, TPM; at PG&E, similar roles may be labeled “product managers.”

Not seeking a pure scrum master or a typical external-facing PO who only writes requirements.

Role must interface with both business and engineers; expected to work directly with engineering teams.

Focus is on the enterprise data platform and data engineering; not an analytics/visualization role.

Core technical expectations

Strong data ecosystem background: experience leading data products or data warehousing initiatives.

Solid understanding of schemas, databases, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes; no hands-on coding expected but must be able to engage deeply with engineers and “know what they are talking about.”

Primary data warehouse platform: Snowflake.

Broader big data background acceptable if not purely Snowflake (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).

Current ETL tool: Informatica; hands-on Informatica expertise is not required.

Analytics/visualization not in scope; Power BI knowledge is a nice-to-have, not mandatory.

Akkodis is seeking an Engineering Technician role is a Contact with a clientin Santa Clara, CA (Onsite), We’re ideally looking for an applicant with 4+ years of equivalent experience in a Lab or Datacenter environment. Visio and CAD experience for Lab R&D projects and Rack Management. Experience with handling PDUs and Power in Labs.

Pay Range: $63-$65/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Summary

• We're looking for a motivated Engineering Technician (Contract) for support our Colossus quality assurance labs. In this role, you will be faced the challenge of providing a test-bed for our developers to test software on various hardware before releasing them.
• Additionally, collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers, installing and maintaining Windows/Linux platforms and using creativity while finding solutions.
• We expect things to break in this lab, as the software is mostly low-level device drivers, and the bugs in them do break boards and GPUs.
• We seek to catch problems early in our labs rather than in user devices.
• Our labs run more than 100,000 tests per day and is part of a DevOps pipeline that needs constant supervision, tracking, monitoring and break-fix.

What you'll be doing:

• Handling Labs and Datacenters using DCIM Tools, spreadsheets and task tracking tools.
• Your responsibilities will also include defining standards in labs to keep them safe, clean and organized.
• Deploy test boards that run automated tests from a Software Developers and triage and root cause board issues which are not due to hardware or software issues but, that potentially have test setup issues.
• Remove and redeploy boards that need software and/or hardware upgrades from board engineers in a regular cadence.
• Work closely and pro-actively with other engineering teams such as system architects, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW QA teams and Applications engineering teams to drive design, development, debug and release of next generations products.
• Take active part in procurement decisions for Lab by choosing from various options available, getting test copies and doing proof of concepts and then providing recommendations.
• Collect data for critical metrics for the lab and track progress.

What we need to see:

• Associates or Bachelors Degree in a Tech related Major or 4+ years of equivalent experience in a Lab or Datacenter environment.
• Ability to perform well at work without requiring constant manager supervision.
• Ability to do deploy and cable servers and test equipment.
• Basic user level understanding of Unix/Windows, and Networking with Enterprise Switches and Routers.
• Skills to work with teammates of various abilities and experiences.
• Ability to find tasks where you need help from sys-admins and communicate those, coordinate with them to integrate those solutions
• Perseveration to debug a hard problem and out of box thinking to seek those.
• To be successful in this position, you should have a love of working with close-knit, multi-disciplinary teams, and enjoy hands-on work with state of the art platforms.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Visio and CAD experience for Lab R&D projects and Rack Management.
• Lab/Datacenter Procurement Experience.
• Experience with handling PDUs and Power in Labs.
• System administrator level experience on Unix/windows and knowledge of scripting to automate workflows (bash/python).
• Basic knowledge of Git/Perforce to check-out, edit and check-in scripts.
• Ability to write SQL queries to get data from MySQL DBs.

If you feel this is not something that you are currently interested in, but know of someone, that might be, please share the details with them or let me know their details so I can reach out to them!

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Position: Technical Program Manager III
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months Contract - possible extension
Job ID: 175212

Job Overview:

The Technical Program Manager III will oversee the successful definition, implementation, and delivery of complex audio hardware programs. This role requires cross-functional collaboration and management of interdependencies across multiple projects and activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in hardware product development, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver audio hardware programs within the constraints of scope, quality, time, budget, and risk factors.
• Engage in program-level strategic planning, interaction with engineering teams and management, and complex issue resolution.
• Oversee project scope definition, requirements gathering, schedule development, budget management, and status reporting.
• Manage hardware builds, issue and risk management, contingency planning, and customer interactions.
• Plan and drive engineering deliverables, including audio subsystem specifications, DOEs, ECNs, and validation results.
  

• Experience in project estimating, scheduling, tracking, and customer interaction in large organizations.
• Proven people management and team-building skills.
• Ability to adapt and exercise judgment in a changing environment while managing competing priorities.
• Strong risk assessment and management skills for technology applications/products and business functions.
• Experience with hardware product development lifecycle and working with vendors, including flexibility for travel and on-site support.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required. MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as an audio Technical Program Manager or Engineer with consumer products such as phones, tablets, watches, or glasses.
• PMP or PMI certification preferred.

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About Straia

At Straia, we’re building the AI-native intelligence layer for colleges and universities.

Today, colleges run on dozens of disconnected systems, forcing staff to spend hundreds of hours manually reconciling data, compiling reports, and tracking down insights. Straia changes that. We unify institutional data and layer on AI agents that answer questions, generate insights/visualizations, and automate repetitive workflows, transforming how colleges operate.

Over time, Straia will evolve into the core intelligence layer for institutional operations, where every function, from student advising to admissions to budgeting and resource planning, is supported by collaborative AI agents that understand each institution’s unique data landscape.

We recently raised our pre-seed from a16z, Reach Capital, and JFF Ventures, and are now hiring a founding backend engineer to help build the technical backbone of how institutions interact with their data.

The Role

As a Founding Engineer at Straia, you’ll work directly with a small team including directly with our CEO (Ryan), CTO (Alan) and CPO (Nikki) to design, build, and scale the core infrastructure of our platform.

This is a 0 → 1 opportunity to shape not just the product, but the engineering culture, architecture, and trajectory of the company. You’ll ship fast, make key technical decisions, and help define how AI can power the next generation of enterprise data intelligence.

We’re specifically looking for someone who consistently raises the bar. The kind of engineer whose default speed and judgment increase the velocity of everyone around them. If you thrive when expectations are high and the pace is fast, you’ll feel right at home

What You'll Do

• Build the core platform — architect and implement services spanning data ingestion, query orchestration, and agentic AI workflows
• Ship end-to-end features across our React + Node.js + Postgres stack, integrating directly with LLMs like GPT, Gemini, and Claude
• Scale infrastructure on GCP for performance, reliability, and data security
• Collaborate with users (university data teams and administrators) to translate real problems into elegant, powerful solutions
• Lay the foundation for Straia’s engineering culture, best practices, and technical roadmap
• Prototype fast, iterate faster — your work will directly shape how education leaders experience AI in their daily decision-making

Who You Are

• 4–7 years of experience building and shipping full-stack applications, with a strong emphasis on backend systems (Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres).
• Deeply technical, with a track record of building scalable, high-quality software
• Startup-minded — you thrive in ambiguity, love building from scratch, and see constraints as creative fuel
• Mission-driven — excited to improve education through technology that makes institutions smarter, faster, and more equitable
• Collaborative and high-agency — you take initiative, value clear communication, and have the instincts of an owner, not an employee
• AI-curious or experienced — exposure to LLMs, vector databases, or prompt engineering is a plus

Our Stack

• Frontend: React + Vite
• Backend: Node.js + Express, orchestrating data and AI agent workflows
• Data Layer: Postgres + Caching for fast queries
• LLM Integration: GPT, Gemini, Claude via API
• Cloud & Infra: Hosted on GCP

Why Join Straia

• Be one of the first engineers at a venture-backed AI company redefining institutional intelligence in higher ed
• Shape the core architecture and engineering culture from day one
• Work directly with top-tier investors and advisors from a16z, Reach, and JFF Ventures
• Join a small, fast-moving team that works incredibly hard, ships fast, and still makes time for good food, laughs, and adventures — we take our work seriously, but not ourselves
• Build meaningful technology that directly impacts student success and equity across colleges nationwide

What We Offer

• Compensation: $160K–$225K + equity
• Location: San Francisco (in office 4 days a week)
• Benefits: Health (platinum insurance), dental, and vision

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