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Location: Hybrid: Los Angeles, Remote: Pacific Time Zone

Department: Game Design

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

Refactor Games is a AAA sports video game studio. We are developing the next generation of professional football (soccer) video games using Unreal Engine 5.

We’re looking for a Game Designer - Live Ops to help drive the design and execution of dynamic live content, events, and engagement systems for our AAA European football video game built in Unreal Engine 5. You’ll work closely with cross-discipline teams to launch compelling in-game experiences that boost engagement, retention, and long-term player satisfaction.

This role is ideal for a designer who enjoys balancing creative live events with data-informed iteration and thrives in a collaborative environment focused on continuous live service excellence.

** NOTE: All applications must include a Cover Letter. Please detail your past experience with Sports Game development and relevant soccer experience/fandom, if applicable. **

Experience:

• 2+ years of professional experience in game design, including live ops, event design, or related fields.
• At least 1 shipped AAA title, bonus points for sports titles.

What You'll Work On:

• Design and implement live events, campaigns, challenges, missions, and thematic content that drive player engagement and retention.
• Configure and tune live ops content within tools and pipelines, supporting seamless integration with core gameplay and progression systems.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, production, analytics, and monetization teams to launch live updates and seasonal content.
• Iterate live content based on player data and analytics to improve experiences and achieve KPIs (e.g., engagement, retention, revenue).
• Ensure live ops initiatives are aligned with the game’s economy, progression, UX, and overall design vision.
• Write clear, structured design documentation and communicate your ideas effectively to stakeholders.
• Participate in the live ops lifecycle from concept to post-launch tuning and optimization.

Requirements:

• Experience designing live events, content updates, or engagement features for live games (AAA or live service preferred).
• Strong understanding of player engagement loops, live content pacing, and retention strategies.
• Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and adapt to evolving live game demands.
• Comfortable working with analytics and using data to inform design iterations and improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulate live ops design and rationale.
• Passion for football games and understanding of how live content supports player excitement and longevity.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with live servicing in a live service or free-to-play game context.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine 5 workflows and how design connects to content pipelines.
• Experience integrating live ops features with economy systems, progression, and monetization.
• Basic experience with tools such as spreadsheets, analytics dashboards, and event scheduling systems.

What We Offer:

• A role on a globally anticipated AAA European football title with long-term live support.
• Opportunity to collaborate with experienced designers, engineers, and live ops specialists.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Growth and development opportunities into senior live ops or systems design positions.

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Job Description:

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world's largest enterprises.

The Data Platform Pillar is the bedrock of Cloudera's technology, where we design and build the core components that let our customers store, manage, and process data with unmatched scalability, security, and performance.

Cloudera is looking for a strong engineering leader with a distributed systems background to lead a team within the Storage Engineering group, focused on building Apache Ozone and Apache HDFS. The Storage team is responsible for primary storage and storage access layers, which are core to the Cloudera Data Platform.

Apache Ozone is an open source, massively scalable, distributed object store with a distributed file system interface. Ozone is designed to scale to tens of billions of files and blocks, and overcome the limitations of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), namely, millions of small files and managing a huge number of data nodes.

Ozone is one of the fastest-growing products inside CDP in terms of customer adoption and expansion revenue. This is an opportunity to lead a team that created and wrote most of the Ozone code and make a huge impact on the big data storage industry.

**This is an onsite role for our HQ in Santa Clara, CA**

As a Sr. Manager, Engineering you will:

• Manage and lead a team of talented engineers and senior individual contributors based in North America.

• Develop and execute on a technical roadmap and strategy for your team, aligning with the department's vision and the company's business goals.

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, including senior and principal-level contributors, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

• Partner with Engineering leaders, product managers, and partner teams to understand requirements, develop solid designs and implementations, and facilitate integration and adoption.

• Drive and enforce best practices for the software development lifecycle, including coding standards, testing, deployment, system scalability, reliability, and security, tracking key performance indicators for engineering quality and efficiency.

• Communicate team progress, successes, challenges, and strategic plans clearly and transparently to engineering leadership and other business stakeholders.

• Oversee team resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing a best-of-class engineering team.

• Work closely with customers in various geographies and partner teams (like PS and support) to ensure successful adoption of Ozone and provide technical guidance for enterprise customers running 100s of petabytes-scale big data analytics and ML/AI pipelines.

• Guide the team in contributing to the Apache open-source community.

We are excited if you have (Required Qualifications):

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years in an engineering management role.

• Domain Expertise: Demonstrable experience with the design, implementation, and operation of large-scale distributed systems, particularly in storage, file systems, databases, or cloud infrastructure.

• Technical Depth: Strong understanding of fundamental storage concepts (e.g., consistency, replication, erasure coding, caching).

• Management Skills: Proven track record of leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, demonstrating excellent communication and organizational skills.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. If you can point to publicly available papers, technical articles or blog posts that is a huge plus.

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

You may also have:

• Prior experience contributing to or leading large-scale open-source projects.

• Familiarity with the Apache Hadoop big data ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Impala, Spark) or related distributed data frameworks.

• Experience with specific commercial or open-source distributed storage technologies (e.g., Ceph, Gluster, ZFS, S3-compatible systems).

• Experience managing remote or hybrid engineers.

Why this role matters:

You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, crafting the foundational software for the control and data planes that powers CDP and keeps it running at massive scale. Working at the forefront of hybrid and multi-cloud technology, you will empower data scientists, engineers, and analysts with the tools and infrastructure they need for advanced analytics and modeling.

Collaboration is key, you will work alongside brilliant minds across product, data science, and engineering to drive innovation, standardize best practices, and shape the future of enterprise AI and data platforms. This is your chance to build the future of data and see your work make a global impact.

This role is not eligible for immigrationsponsorship.

The expected base salary range for this role in

• California is $203,000 - $254,000

The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location

What you can expect from us:

• Generous PTO Policy

• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days

• Flexible WFH Policy

• Mental & Physical Wellness programs

• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program

• Access to Continued Career Development

• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Employee Resource Groups

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Engineering Supervisor

Location: Torrance, CA

Overview

This role supports a high-precision aerospace manufacturing organization known for craftsmanship, quality, and continuous improvement. The Engineering Supervisor works cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineering, NC Programming, Quality, and Operations to improve processes, integrate new programs, and ensure consistent, compliant production. This leader plays a critical role in mentoring engineers, supporting new product introductions, and resolving manufacturing challenges that impact quality, delivery, and profitability.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, values process discipline, and brings a problem-solving mindset to complex production challenges.

Position Responsibilities

• Serve as a key manufacturing engineering representative for new statements of work, new product integration, and process transitions.
• Ensure adherence to internal engineering and manufacturing standards; develop and implement new standards where needed.
• Collaborate with NC Programming, Operations, and Manufacturing Engineering on tooling and fixture design.
• Lead and support first-article and first-piece reviews alongside Quality, Engineering, Operations, and NC Programming.
• Mentor, train, and support the development of Manufacturing Engineers and Planners.
• Interface with customers as needed to resolve engineering or producibility issues.
• Investigate and resolve manufacturing issues related to scrap, rework, or low profitability.
• Support estimating and quoting efforts by reviewing designs for manufacturability and risk.
• Provide shop-floor engineering support during first-article builds and process validation.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate technical activities while monitoring performance against budgets, schedules, and organizational goals.
• Play a strong leadership role in New Product Introduction (NPI) initiatives.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Core Functional Areas

Process Standardization

• Develop and maintain work instructions, procedures, and manufacturing standards.
• Recommend and implement process improvements to enhance cost, quality, and delivery.
• Maintain configuration control across customer part revisions and specifications.
• Manage Engineering Work Orders (EWO) and Engineering Change Orders (ECO), including:
• New part integration
• Tooling changes
• Part number and revision control
• Value engineering initiatives

Continuous Improvement

• Identify improvement opportunities and drive corrective actions.
• Analyze manufacturing data to evaluate performance and resolve problems.
• Apply Lean Manufacturing tools and principles where applicable.

Project Management

• Develop and manage project schedules using MS Project or similar tools.
• Track progress, communicate expectations, and manage activities to budget and schedule.

Leadership & Communication

• Provide regular updates to leadership on project status and engineering initiatives.
• Deliver clear, organized, and effective presentations when required.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information professionally and tactfully.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, operations, and support functions.
• Motivate teams, manage conflict, and promote effective cross-functional communication.

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• Bachelor's or Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
  
• At least 4 years of Electrical Engineering Experience
  
• Proficiency working with AutoCAD
  
• Proficiency with the Microsoft business suite, including Word and Excel
  
• Proficiency working with SKM PTW PowerTools or similar electrical analysis software
  
• Experience within an operational environment
  

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• Engineer in Training (EIT) or ability to obtain
  
• Working knowledge of Revit or BIM software
  
• Experience with database creation and maintenance such as MS Access
  
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  
• Forward thinking, eager to learn best practices, and contribute with innovative ideas
  
• Displayed ability to learn quickly and driven to broaden knowledge base
  
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams
  
• Passionate about buildings and construction
  

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• This is an on-site position requiring work to be performed on the client site in vicinity of San Jose, CA
  
• Candidate must be willing to commute to the site Monday-Friday during normal core business hours - of 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with flexibility based on need of client interactions
  
• Relocation assistance may be provided for qualified candidate.
  

Open date: June 9, 2025

Most recent review date: Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025 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, Oct 14, 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 Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary, part-time instructors to teach engineering management topics in the Master of Engineering program (Berkeley MEng) should an opening arise. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed.

The MEng program offers coursework in technology innovation and management. We hire a number of qualified professionals and academics to hold temporary lecturer and TSP (Teacher Special Program) appointments to lend variety and subject matter expertise to our core engineering leadership topics:

* Accounting

* Coaching for High Performing Teams

* Communications

* Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

* Entrepreneurship

* Ethics

* Finance

* Global Business

* Global Innovations

* Industry Analysis

* Innovation

* Law

* Leadership

* Marketing

* Negotiations

* Organizational Behavior

* Product Management

* Project Management

* R&D Technology Management

* Teaming & Project Management

* Technology Strategy

* Other topics in Engineering Leadership

We hire for both lecturer and TSP positions. TSPs teach short courses on one or more of the topic areas listed. Most TSP courses are taught in a 'bootcamp' 8-day format in early August and early January.

Lecturers may be appointed for a semester or for the academic year, depending on instructional assignments. Lecturers and TSPs are responsible for the course syllabus, curriculum development and delivery, holding office hours, student assessment through relevant projects, presentations, problem sets, exams, and/or class attendance and participation, and assigning grades.

Applicants are considered for positions as needs arise; the existence of this pool does not guarantee that a position is available.

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Labor Contract:

Bachelors or equivalent international degree required by date of application.

Experience teaching college or graduate students by the start date of the job. Masters degree or equivalent international degree required by the start date of the job, or 5 or more years of industry experience.

2 or more years of management or executive level industry experience. Experience teaching graduate-level business and management topics to engineers.

• Cover Letter - 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 inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.

  
  

• Resume - Your most recently updated C.V.

  
  

• Sample Syllabus - Please provide an example syllabus from a previous teaching engagement.
  
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• Teaching Evaluations - Please provide student evaluations or feedback from one previous teaching engagement; qualitative or quantitative evaluations are accepted.
  
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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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Title: Engineering technician/ Equipment technician

Work Location: Fremont, CA 94538

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Shift: Grave shift 10:30pm-6:30am

Pay rate: $3 /hr.

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.

Job Description:

We are seeking a person capable of running an Intevac 200L sputter machine in a proficient manner to fulfill the requests for the Media Development Engineering organization. Tasks and duties will include processing experiments precisely as documented or requested by the Engineering staff. Requirements are to work in class 10 /100 cleanroom environment, follow all procedures and protocols, follow instructions well, provide feedback to coworkers/leads in a constructive/positive manner, provide technical support and suggestions to Engineering, run sputter machines efficiently and effectively, collect sputter related data on metrology tools, maintain excellent documentation, work collaboratively in a team environment to help exceed goals. These items listed below CAN be trained.

Pilot Line Operations includes - processing of the media through various media processes and equipment which includes but is not limited to the following:

• Processing of experiments for the Engineering team - processing discs through the various tools, measurement of the media, data entry, and feedback to engineering and management of the results.
• Work inside of a cleanroom - 100% PPE suits from head to toe with masks and safety glasses are required.
• Job requires a good amount of movement (walking - 50% depending on the job) to retrieve parts from point A to point B in many cases.
• Reaching is required in many cases to load and unload products onto racks, machines, etc., typically ranging from 24 inches to 53 inches not exceeding 10lbs.
• Many cases cart is provided for the transport of product, but hand carrying of product/material is required majority of the time as well.
• Computer skills are required in all the areas since the machines and the processes require computer and software interface. Interaction with Engineering is required via email, phone and excellent understanding and communication skills are required. Comprehension of correct recipes, file savings, instructions are followed precisely. Detailed use of excel is a must and understanding of Windows.
• Job requires stepping onto step stools to reach platforms for the processing of parts, as well as bending/kneeling in tight spaces for access to back of tools for process checks.
• Manual dexterity is needed in some areas to perform tape changes, adjustments based upon data received from Engineering or checklists. MDW process requires detailed manual dexterity with ESD sensitive parts and miniature assembly.
• Many of the jobs require cross training to be able to utilize the employees efficiently for planning purposes and downtime in areas.
• Saturday workday is required and part of their schedule in many cases and overtime is required.
• Must be able to focus, excellent attendance, comprehension, enthusiastic in performing their jobs, communicate detailed information well, pay attention to details, and have a good attitude and work ethics, and a true team player in getting tasks at hand completed in a timely manner.

Required qualifications:

• No previous experience required – on the job training will be provided
• Proficient computer skills (Microsoft Office – email, basic Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Excellent communication skills
• Professional, reliable, responsible, dependable, etc

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Open date: May 12, 2025

Next review date: Friday, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

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

Final date: Monday, May 11, 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 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach undergraduate courses in all areas within chemical and biomolecular engineering, though candidates with experience in biochemical engineering laboratory will receive special consideration, should an opening arise. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending on the needs of the department. This position is in a represented bargaining unit.

The vibrant community of CBE is situated within the College of Chemistry, a small college within a large campus, with a connected and collegial feel. The College provides comprehensive student support services including peer tutoring, professional advising, career placement, and drop-in counseling. Award-winning student groups including chapters of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Cancer Society (ACS) and Chemical Engineering Car (Chem-E-Car) enhance the student experience, and faculty members mentor students in clubs and teams in biofuels technology, cosmetics formulation, phytoremediation, and research projects.

General Duties

Classroom/laboratory teaching and preparation, managing and mentoring graders and/or graduate student instructors (teaching assistants), holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g., syllabus), and using Cal's electronic resources for course management.

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A bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) or enrolled in a bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) program.

A bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) and 2 years of experience in a laboratory course setting and/or research/professional experience.

A PhD degree (or equivalent international degree) in chemical engineering or a related field, and prior teaching experience.

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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
  

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.

Prototype Engineering Technician

Pay: $25.00-$29.00/hour

Location: San Diego, CA (Onsite)

Duration: 12-Month Contract

Schedule: Standard Working Hours

Job Responsibilities

In this role, you will support prototyping activities within a collaborative manufacturing environment. The position works closely with engineering teams to assist with product development initiatives and the fabrication of prototype components.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting prototype builds in collaboration with Product Development Engineering.
• Assisting with fixture setup, fabrication, and prototype assembly.
• Producing components using machining, rapid prototyping, and fabrication equipment.
• Creating and modifying 3D models using CAD software to support prototype development.
• Supporting cross-functional teams in engineering and manufacturing activities related to product prototyping.

Essential Duties and Job Functions

• Work with engineers to set up and fabricate prototype fixtures and components.
• Operate traditional and CNC machine shop equipment including mills and lathes.
• Produce prototype parts using rapid prototyping equipment such as:
• 3D printers
• Laser cutters
• Other fabrication tools
• Interpret engineering drawings, prints, and schematics to fabricate parts accurately.
• Perform fabrication and assembly of mechanical, electronic, and electro-mechanical components.
• Utilize CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks) to design or modify solid models for manufacturing.
• Use measurement tools such as calipers, micrometers, and height gauges to verify dimensions.
• Follow established machine shop policies, procedures, and safety standards.
• Maintain compliance with safety protocols, including the use of proper PPE.
• Utilize common hand and power tools during prototype fabrication and assembly.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting abilities.
• Basic mechanical fixture and/or electro-mechanical design experience.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and schematics.
• Familiarity with machine shop environments and equipment.
• Experience with measurement and inspection tools.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience with rapid prototyping equipment such as 3D printers and laser cutters.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to safety practices.

Education & Experience

Required:

• 1-3 years of machine shop experience using traditional equipment such as:
• Conventional lathes
• Mills
• CNC milling machines
• Experience with fabrication and assembly of mechanical or electro-mechanical components.
• Experience using hand tools and power tools in a manufacturing environment.

Preferred / Nice to Have:

• Associate's degree or relevant technical training.
• Experience maintaining tools and managing material inventory.
• Familiarity with optical measurement equipment (e.g., Keyence systems).
• Industry certification or trade school training in a related field.
• Knowledge of 3D CAD software (SolidWorks and/or Fusion 360 preferred).
• Ability to lift up to 30 lbs.
• Willingness to take on additional responsibilities and assignments as needed.

About Pinterest:

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Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

Production Engineering at Pinterest is an evolution of our Site Reliability Engineering organization blending a hybrid of systems and software engineering with a focus on scaling, resiliency, reliability, performance, and efficiency. Our organization accomplishes this through building & integrating software, increasing automation, and infusing our knowledge & best practices into our Platform products so we can scale our large distributed systems to keep our customers happy, and our Pinners inspired. We also do this by developing short and long term embedded engagements with our engineering partners to help remove barriers, up-level reliability & best practices, and maintain a high consistent bar for reliability in a fast paced ever changing environment. We are always on a mission to improve reliability while also increasing engineering velocity, reducing toil and KTLO impact for both ourselves and our customers: fast, efficient, quality - we will accomplish all three!

What you'll do:

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• Lead our engineers to deliver on the biggest impact work across engineering to ensure we're infusing best practices into our products relating to reliability, scalability, performance and efficiency
  
• Drive technical architecture discussions; including being capable of driving and decision making for technology or applications that you have not had previous experience with
  
• Continuously assess your team's performance, address and coach under-performance, and recognize and promote high performance
  
• Create an inclusive and welcoming workplace where every team member feels valued and supported
  
• Foster an environment of open and honest communication, allowing team members to be safe to fail, encourage risk taking with a fail-fast mentality, and establish forums where they can share their ideas
  
• Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
  
• Create an inspiring team charter and direction that align with the goals of the broader Production Engineering organization
  
• Develop strong partnerships with Product & Program Management partners across infrastructure by communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities
  
• Establish team norms around planning, execution, and continuous improvement
  

What we're looking for:

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• 3+ years experience managing teams within an SRE, Production Engineering or other Platform/Infrastructure organizations
  
• Customer obsession: Demonstrated ability to work cohesively and build relationships with partners across engineering disciplines and capable of influencing without authority
  
• Familiarity with the concepts and use cases for SDLC including SCM tools, Build platforms, test frameworks, CI/CD products
  
• Familiar with usage and high level architecture of data platform technologies such as relational databases, storage & caching, key value stores, time series data stores, etc.
  
• Strong domain expertise in reliability concepts and best practices with the ability to innovate and provide thought leadership and direction in this problem space
  
• Hands on familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  
• Knowledge of Linux systems internals and networking
  
• Thrive in an environment with a lot of ambiguity with the ability to be self sufficient and ruthlessly prioritize the highest impact projects
  
• Infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Tensorflow, ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, and Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Fabric, etc)
  
• Heavy bias toward action; able to drive resolution and making quick decisions balancing being data driven along with leveraging your experience & judgement
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
  
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
  

Relocation Statement:

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• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
  

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion: