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Lead Power Electronics Engineer

Anaheim, CA

This company, a developer of much-needed power technology, is looking for a Lead Power Electronics Engineer who can be a hands-on leader for full life-cycle development of board-level hardware.

Only US Citizens can be considered.

Company Information

While this company has the energy and innovative culture of a start-up, it's an established, profitable company developing power technology for multiple industries, including aerospace, defense, and industrial technologies. 2025 was a very successful year, and 2026 is looking even better. They offer a hard-to-find mix of stability, growth, and the ability to make a difference in industry-changing technology.

Position Description

In this role, you'll be the lead over a team of 3 hardware engineers, doing design, test, debugging, and release of power inverters and converters (10-300 kW). Your responsibilities will be a mix of hands-on development and guiding team members through the full development life-cycle, from concept to release into high volume production.

Other responsibilities include:

• Evaluate customer/project requirements and selecting appropriate topologies for DC/AC and DC/DC applications
• Select active semiconductor switching devices as well as passive components required for converter power circuits (capacitors, inductors, transformers, etc.)
• Have a hand in multiple projects (3-5)
• Analyze switching and transient behavior of devices to determine limits, proper gating, operation and implementation
• Design analysis including modeling, simulation, and control loops
• Optimize designs with an eye toward efficiency, density, and cost
• Conduct design reviews and follow NPI process
• Perform hands-on lab work building and debugging prototypes
• Lead the interface with contractors to outsource project tasks, track the progress per project schedule, and report it to management team

Qualifications

• BSEE (focus on power electronics) with 8+ years of experience in full development life-cycle power electronics development at the board-level (digital, analog, and power electronic circuit design).
• Background developing power electronics in the range of 100-300 kW.
• Experience either as a lead engineer or as a senior engineer, ready to step into a lead-level role.
• Strong understanding of areas such as:
• - power inverters
• - 3-phase power systems
• - space vector, sinusoidal, and/or discontinuous PWM schemes
• - SiC and GaN devices
• - Circuit simulation software (Matlab, Simulink, LTSpice, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, with the proven ability to mentor engineers and be a primary point of contact for the team.

Compensation:

$190-240K base plus performance bonus.

This is a direct-hire position, with a full benefit package.

The company will support relocation for qualified candidates.

The company can only consider US Citizens.

An Automotive product manufacturing company is seeking a Entry-Level Outside Sales Representative to join their team in Garden Grove, CA. This position is responsible for developing new clients as well as maintaining existing clients. A bachelor’s degree, 2+ years of Outside Sales Experience, ability to travel domestically and internationally (Mexico & Texas- 1x a month), and conversational Spanish is a big plus but not mandatory. This is a full-time, in-person, exempt position, with bonus and excellent benefits, including 401K.

Entry-Level Outside Sales Representative Duties:

-Compiles list of prospective customers for use as leads, from many different sources; i.e. internet, linked-in, business directories, networking, etc.

-Travels through assigned territory to call on established and prospective customers to solicit orders or communicate with customers on their sales floor or via phone.

-Displays or demonstrates products using samples and/or catalogs to emphasize sellable features.

-Quotes prices and credit terms and prepares sales contracts for orders obtained.

-Obtains credit information on prospective customers and forwards findings to home office.

-Provides pertinent information to customers upon securing orders; such as, estimated/actual date of delivery, confirmation of number of parts ordered, contact person’s information (if other than self), etc.

-Prepares reports of business transactions and keeps expense accounts.

-Oversee key projects, processes and performance reports, data and analysis.

Entry-Level Outside Sales Representative Skills:

-Must have a bachelor’s degree

-Conversational Spanish is a big plus but not mandatory

-Must have 2+ years of Outside Sales experience

-Must be able to travel internationally frequently for work (Mexico & Texas 1x a month)

-Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

-Driver's License with Clear Record

****If interested, please apply with your most updated resume including your minimum salary requirement and why you left/or are looking to leave your current company. ****

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Activ8 West- Los Angeles (Japanese Recruiting Company) Recruitment & Solutions / Renaissance Resources Inc., has been a trusted leader in North American recruiting for Japanese businesses for over 25 years. We specialize in connecting top talent with companies in the Automotive, Electronics, Food & Beverage, Logistics, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Banking & Finance, and Entertainment industries. Our client-focused approach ensures that we understand your unique needs, whether you’re a company seeking skilled professionals or a candidate looking for the right career opportunity. By working closely with each individual, we provide tailored solutions that drive success.

We screen ALL Candidates to verify the validity of each applicant's provided information. Upon submitting your resume, we will contact only those candidates that we deem qualified for our client. If we do not contact you, we do not see the fit for the position. If we are unable to reach you in a reasonable timeframe, you will be eliminated from the pool of potential candidates. We prioritize direct applicants; third-party resumes may not be reviewed.

“We create happiness.” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences. At Disney, you’ll help inspire magic by enabling our teams to push the limits of entertainment and create innovative built environments. You will collaborate to develop ideas/thoughts into physical reality! The Architecture & Facilities Engineering (A&FE) team is looking for a Staff Mechanical Engineer to support the development and sustainment of projects we support throughout the Disneyland Resort. Our department supports a wide range of project types including Attractions, Maintenance, Foods, Merchandise, and Entertainment. Projects range from minor renovations to new facilities. You will also support immediate response efforts with reactionary projects.

You will act as the Staff Mechanical Engineering Owner’s Representative with technical expertise for mechanical engineering issues, design management of in-house and outside resources, code compliance, Disney design standards, documentation, specifications, and life cycle cost analysis for best value. This role also involves close collaboration with other engineering disciplines and multiple Disney project teams including FAM, WDI, Entertainment, and Operations.

You will report to the Senior Manager for MEP Engineering with DLR Architecture & Facilities Engineering.

What You Will Do

• Act as Owner’s Representative on projects from concept through construction at the Disneyland Resort. Project types will include shops, rides, hotels, shows, maintenance facilities, and nearly any built facility and area development found on our property.

• Manage the design and development of contract documents of projects with in-house and outside resources to meet project scopes, schedules and budgets.

• Develop concepts and Request for Proposals (RFP)s.

• Attend, participate, and problem solve during site visits from concept through construction.

• Review drawings and specifications and ensure that all projects are designed and executed to applicable codes and statutes

• Work with stakeholders to provide civil engineering resources to develop project scope including design, planning and code compliance for estimation and feasibility.

• Resolve design issues creatively and thoroughly coordinating design with other disciplines.

• Develop clear technical analyses and recommend frameworks to inform executive review and approval.

• Partner with internal teams to develop, maintain, communicate, and enforce Walt Disney Company design guidelines, standards, master specifications, and details.

• As the owner's representative, you'll review with a focus on constructability, efficiency, and long-term maintainability.

• Liaison with City officials and external agencies to ensure project scope and implementation is coordinated and compliant with external requirements.

• Research Record Drawings in Disneyland Archives.

• Perform field work to investigate and assess mechanical related infrastructure in the Resort.

• Independently review new and existing design drawings and calculations.

• Review shop drawing submittals and respond to vendor requests for information per Resort standards.

• Coordinate design activities and monitor field installations and demolition work that comply with specifications and code requirements.

• Perform reviews of existing infrastructure: propose upgrades and replacements, present findings and recommendations.

• Serve as Engineer of Record on assigned projects, including signing and sealing construction documents when required.

• Design with focus on constructability, efficiency, and long-term maintainability.

• Expedite the receipt of sample submittals required for final design approval.

• Participate in weekly design coordination meetings and prioritize items to minimize schedule impacts.

• Assist Project and Design Managers to resolve design compliance issues relating to Projects requirements. Validate that all Item Specifications are consistent with products installed before archiving manuals.

• Support Executive Design Reviews by contributing technical content, analysis, and coordination as requested by Project or Design Management.

What We Look For

• 10+ years of experience in mechanical engineering design, HVAC/DX/VRF/CHW applications, central plant development and operational guidance, hydraulics, hydronics, compressed air, overall kitchen designs and implementation.

• Ability to support project partners in procurement and construction.

• Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, ACC, and other engineering-based software.

• Working knowledge of both National and Local Standards and Codes.

Required Education and Licensure

• BS Mechanical Engineering or related field from an ABET accredited university.

• Current registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of California in good standing.

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Additional Information

Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities, and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at  .

Senior Director / Vice President, Site Operations

Kelly® Science & Clinical is seeking a Senior Director / Vice President, Site Operations for a direct‑hire position at a cutting‑edge Client in Seal Beach, CA. If you’re passionate about bringing the latest scientific discoveries to life and are ready to take the next step in your career, trust The Experts at Hiring Experts.

Salary: $200-270k

Bonus potential

Schedule: M-F Onsite

Overview

The Client is an industry‑leading organization transforming the battle against cancer with innovative, personalized immunotherapy solutions. Their flagship work includes technologies leveraging a patient’s own immune system to fight disease.

In this role, you will lead U.S. site operations for the Client’s commercial manufacturing facilities, providing strategic oversight, operational excellence, and cross‑functional alignment to meet production goals, quality standards, and business performance targets. This position offers broad strategic leadership across manufacturing, technical operations, quality, engineering, supply chain, and supporting functions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure business processes, procedures, and resources are in place to compliantly, safely, and effectively manufacture the Client’s immunotherapy and other biotech products.
• Represent technical operations at the Steering Committee level and interface with external clients and regulatory bodies as needed.
• Manage technical operations across the Client’s commercial manufacturing sites and contracted manufacturing partners.
• Lead site EHS&S teams to maintain safety standards aligned with corporate programs.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure compliance with cGMP requirements for clinical and commercial manufacturing.
• Support audits and inspections by external customers and regulatory agencies.
• Develop and achieve enterprise and site performance goals; lead reviews of manufacturing, safety, engineering, quality, and materials metrics.
• Oversee department and site budgets, including cost of goods (COGS).
• Lead planning and execution of technical programs and corporate initiatives.
• Provide strong leadership; coach, develop, and retain talent across all levels.
• Build and maintain cross‑functional partnerships across Operations, Technical Operations, Supply Chain, Research, Manufacturing Sciences, Regulatory, and additional teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or a related field required; advanced degree (MS, MBA, PhD) strongly preferred.
• 10–15 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry with a strong background in cGMP‑compliant manufacturing.
• 7–10+ years of leadership experience managing cross‑functional teams and multi‑site operations.
• Experience working with ADC (Antibody‑Drug Conjugate) programs within CDMO environments, including oversight of development, scale‑up, and GMP manufacturing activities required.

• Proven experience leading large‑scale operational initiatives in regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success managing operational metrics, driving performance improvements, and managing COGS or departmental budgets.
• Experience with regulatory inspections and audits, including work with external manufacturing partners.
• Strong working knowledge of cGMPs, aseptic processing, quality systems, and environmental health and safety regulations.
• Skilled in strategic planning, team development, change management, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills; comfortable engaging with senior executives, regulators, and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Able to thrive in a fast‑paced environment and effectively navigate ambiguity.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Travel required.
• Work takes place in laboratory, office, or utility (noisy) environments.
• Must be able to work near manufacturing areas with exposure to blood, blood products, or other potentially infectious materials while using required PPE.

What Happens Next

Once you apply, you’ll proceed to the next steps if your skills and experience appear to be a strong match. Even if this particular role isn’t the right fit, you’ll remain in our network, giving our team of Science & Clinical recruiting experts access to your profile for future opportunities.

Job Title: Operations Manager - Process Automation

Reports to: VP, Operational Excellence

Location: Irvine, CA

About Our Organization

RIS Rx (pronounced “RISE”) is a healthcare technology startup in the pharmaceutical patient access and affordability space. We have quickly become an industry leader with a valuable service portfolio that addresses common patient access barriers, leading to better treatment outcomes and improved quality of life. Here at RIS Rx, we invite our teammates and partners to “Rise Up” with us to bring accessible healthcare to everyone.

Job Summary

We are growing exponentially so we need to build products that scale. This Operations Manager will pave the way for our PMs and Engineers by partnering with operators to measure performance, identify high ROI problems, prototype with low-code and GenAI solutions, and implement systems that pull the solution and operations towards the goal.

The ideal candidate is a structured problem solver with an eye for detail, a track record of rolling up their sleeves to experience the problem, and excellent communication skills.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Define KPIs and build dashboards to measure performance and support proactive decision-making.

• Identify, structure, and prioritize problems that affect our KPIs. Use frameworks and data to brainstorm options. Facilitate tradeoff conversations with leadership to align on a recommendation.

• Create project plans, generate cross-functional buy-in, and project manage a team to meet deliverables.

• Build low-code solutions and otherwise prototype products. Use these prototypes to clarify product requirements for PMs and engineers.

• Implement processes and systems to reduce chaos and pull operations towards KPIs.

• Be a thought partner to our operations, product, and engineering leaders.

Qualifications

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a quantitative field like engineering, science, or mathematics.

• 5+ years of experience in a role that requires highly structured problem solving like engineering, consulting, finance, and supply chain management.

• Experience operating, building, or otherwise getting your hands dirty to solve the problem.

Skills

• Strong analytical problem solving and structured thinking. Able to translate ambiguity into repeatable and scalable systems.

• Thorough and detail oriented.

• Action-oriented and not afraid of solving a problem you’ve never seen before. A self-starter and go-getter.

• Comfortable building models in Excel or writing scripts in Python. Bonus points if you’ve built solutions with GenAI tools.

• Excellent communication skills and an ability to tailor your message to the audience.

• Collaborative and teammate-lifting mindset.

About Triple Crown

Triple Crown is a nationwide technology and engineering firm that connects top-tier talent with some of the most innovative companies in the world. Specializing in Hardware, Embedded, Software, and Mechanical engineering, we’re trusted by Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing startups to deliver highly skilled professionals.

With seven offices across the U.S. and a candidate-first approach, we move fast to meet the demands of today’s most complex projects. Our team is relationship-driven, results-focused, and passionate about helping engineers and clients thrive.

Recognized as one of the largest and fastest-growing staffing firms in the industry, we’re proud of our bold, high-energy culture built on strong values, real collaboration, and unlimited growth potential.

Account Manager

You will receive extensive hands-on training from our L&D team along with our top performers. During this period, you will learn the fundamentals of sales, staffing and customer service.

As an Account Manager at Triple Crown, you will:

• Build and manage a portfolio of qualified clients in the tech and engineering space
• Engage daily over the phone to attract and grow new business while also maintaining strong ongoing relationships with current client portfolio
• Identify and generate new job opportunities by understanding client needs and project goals
• Ensure a high level of client satisfaction through proactive communication and dependable service
• Drive revenue growth by expanding existing accounts and securing new business
• Conduct meetings with prospective clients to understand hiring cycles and establish trusted partnerships
• Prepare and present tailored proposals that align with client needs and showcase Triple Crown’s value

People Who Are Successful In This Role Are:

• Focused self-starters who pay high attention to detail and have a strong work ethic, positive attitude, and a commitment to exceed set expectations
• Able to quickly learn new technology
• Excellent communicators, both over the phone and in email—sense of humor a plus!
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and work well under pressure

Things We Have to Offer:

• Great work/life balance
• Competitive compensation structure, base + uncapped commission
• Health, dental and vision benefits
• 401K option
• 3 weeks of PTO + all national holidays
• We are also closed Christmas – New Year’s Day and July 4th week- yes, all paid!
• Company outings and happy hours
• Opportunity for growth
• Annual company trip for Diamond Club, we’ve gone to Las Vegas, the Bahamas, Miami, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Cancun, and this year Cabo!

Does this sound like you? Apply today and take the first step toward a rewarding and fulfilling career!

Triple Crown Consulting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to considerations of race, color, religion or creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy), national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship status, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, and physical or mental disability, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. Triple Crown Consulting does not tolerate discrimination in any aspect of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.

• We are a leader in our industry
• We offer long term career stability
• Opportunities for continued learning, development & advancement
• Excellent pay
• Great benefits
• Positive company culture
• Ability to make an immediate impact

• Control System Troubleshooting & Repair: Diagnose and repair PLC-based press control systems, hydraulic motion control circuits, and servo systems.
• Installation & Commissioning: Install, configure, and commission control systems for hydraulic and servo electric presses, ensuring proper integration of PLCs and peripherals
• Retrofits & Upgrades: Assist in modernizing hydraulic press controls, upgrading outdated PLCs, HMIs, motion controllers, and hydraulic servo systems for improved performance and automation.
• Field Service & Customer Support: Provide on-site and remote troubleshooting for hydraulic and servo electric press controls, minimizing downtime, and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Programming & Debugging: Develop, modify, and troubleshoot PLC logic, HMI screens, motion control programs, and press automation sequences.
• Preventive Maintenance & Optimization: Conduct control system inspections and hydraulic system tuning to enhance system performance and reliability.
• Documentation & Reporting: Maintain service reports, control schematics, wiring diagrams, and software backups for customer and internal records.
• Training & Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, production, and service teams to provide training and guidance on press control systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, most commonly Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• 5-7 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
• 7-10 years industry experience without a bachelor’s degree
• Self-starter who is adaptable to work independently and within a team environment
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in an interactive group environment are essential.

About Us:

Astiva Health, Inc., located in Orange, CA is a premier health plan provider specializing in Medicare and HMO services. With a focus on delivering comprehensive care tailored to the needs of our diverse community, we prioritize accessibility, affordability, and quality in all aspects of our services. Join us in our mission to transform healthcare delivery and make a meaningful difference in the lives of our members.

SUMMARY:

We are seeking a skilled and adaptable AI/ML Engineer to join our fast-moving team building impactful AI solutions in healthcare. Our work focuses on extracting and interpreting data from unstructured medical documents, improving clinical coding accuracy, streamlining administrative processes, and enhancing patient outreach.

Projects will evolve rapidly, from fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on specialized medical PDFs, to optimizing OCR pipelines in Azure, and new challenges emerge regularly. This role suits someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys hands-on model development, and wants to directly influence healthcare delivery through applied AI/ML.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Design, fine-tune, and optimize large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models for healthcare-specific NLP tasks, such as information extraction, classification, and summarization from clinical documents (e.g., medical charts, patient files, scanned forms).
• Develop and improve document understanding pipelines, including fine-tuning OCR / layout-aware models (especially in cloud environments like Azure AI, Azure Foundry) to handle real-world variability in medical forms, handwriting, and scanned PDFs.
• Build and iterate on end-to-end ML solutions that transform unstructured healthcare data into structured, actionable insights
• Collaborate closely with clinicians, product managers, data annotators, and engineers to define problems, curate/annotate datasets, evaluate model performance against clinical and business metrics, and iterate quickly.
• Deploy models into production environments (cloud-based inference, batch processing, or API endpoints) with attention to latency, cost, scalability, and healthcare compliance considerations (HIPAA, data privacy).
• Stay current with advancements in LLMs, vision-language models, efficient fine-tuning techniques (LoRA/QLoRA, PEFT), RAG, multimodal AI, and domain-specific healthcare AI research.
• Contribute to a culture of rapid prototyping, rigorous evaluation, and continuous improvement in a dynamic project landscape where priorities can shift based on new opportunities or stakeholder needs.
• Other duties as assigned

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with NLP applied to unstructured text
• Experience working with LLMs, including:
• Prompting strategies
• Fine-tuning for classification or extraction tasks
• Model evaluation and error analysis
• Experience designing or consuming annotation pipelines and labeled datasets
• Familiarity with structured prediction problems (multi-label classification, ranking, or probabilistic inference)
• Ability to reason about and mitigate model bias, label noise, and false positives
• Strong understanding of production ML systems (versioning, monitoring, iteration)
• Experience working with sensitive or regulated data (e.g., HIPAA-covered healthcare data), including privacy-aware data handling and secure ML workflows

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Hands-on experience with Azure AI services, Azure Machine Learning, OpenAI on Azure, and Microsoft Foundry
• Experience with clinical NLP libraries (scispaCy, medspaCy, cTAKES)
• Familiarity with RAG architectures for grounding model decisions
• Experience with weak supervision or noisy-label learning
• Knowledge of temporal reasoning or longitudinal modeling
• Exposure to knowledge graphs or ontology-driven systems
• Familiarity with healthcare vocabularies and ontologies:
• ICD-10
• SNOMED CT
• RxNorm (or similar)
• Understanding of clinical documentation structure (HPI, Assessment & Plan, medications, etc.)

EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• 2-4+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, or applied NLP
• Demonstrated experience taking ML systems from prototype to production
• Experience collaborating with non-technical domain experts (e.g., medical coders, clinicians)

BENEFITS:

• 401(k)
• Dental Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Free catered lunches

About Us:

Astiva Health, Inc., located in Orange, CA is a premier health plan provider specializing in Medicare and HMO services. With a focus on delivering comprehensive care tailored to the needs of our diverse community, we prioritize accessibility, affordability, and quality in all aspects of our services. Join us in our mission to transform healthcare delivery and make a meaningful difference in the lives of our members.

SUMMARY:

We are seeking a skilled and adaptable Junior AI/ML Engineer to join our fast-moving team building impactful AI solutions in healthcare. Our work focuses on extracting and interpreting data from unstructured medical documents, improving clinical coding accuracy, streamlining administrative processes, and enhancing patient outreach.

Projects will evolve rapidly, from fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on specialized medical PDFs, to optimizing OCR pipelines in Azure, and new challenges emerge regularly. This role suits someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys hands-on model development, and wants to directly influence healthcare delivery through applied AI/ML.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Design, fine-tune, and optimize large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models for healthcare-specific NLP tasks, such as information extraction, classification, and summarization from clinical documents (e.g., medical charts, patient files, scanned forms).
• Develop and improve document understanding pipelines, including fine-tuning OCR / layout-aware models (especially in cloud environments like Azure AI, Azure Foundry) to handle real-world variability in medical forms, handwriting, and scanned PDFs.
• Build and iterate on end-to-end ML solutions that transform unstructured healthcare data into structured, actionable insights
• Collaborate closely with clinicians, product managers, data annotators, and engineers to define problems, curate/annotate datasets, evaluate model performance against clinical and business metrics, and iterate quickly.
• Deploy models into production environments (cloud-based inference, batch processing, or API endpoints) with attention to latency, cost, scalability, and healthcare compliance considerations (HIPAA, data privacy).
• Stay current with advancements in LLMs, vision-language models, efficient fine-tuning techniques (LoRA/QLoRA, PEFT), RAG, multimodal AI, and domain-specific healthcare AI research.
• Contribute to a culture of rapid prototyping, rigorous evaluation, and continuous improvement in a dynamic project landscape where priorities can shift based on new opportunities or stakeholder needs.
• Other duties as assigned

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with common ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)
• Experience applying NLP techniques to unstructured text
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs, including:
• Prompt design and iteration
• Using pre-trained models for classification or extraction tasks
• Foundational understanding of model fine-tuning, such as:
• Fine-tuning transformer models or LLMs for classification or information extraction
• Adapting existing training scripts or examples to new datasets
• Familiarity with model evaluation metrics (precision, recall, F1) and basic error analysis
• Experience working with labeled datasets and annotation outputs, including reviewing label quality
• Understanding of common ML problem types, including binary and multi-label classification
• Awareness of model bias, label noise, and false positives, with the ability to discuss tradeoffs and mitigation strategies
• Basic understanding of production ML workflows (versioning, reproducibility, monitoring concepts)

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Hands-on fine-tuning experience with LLMs (e.g., Hugging Face, OpenAI fine-tuning, Azure Foundry), even if limited to small-scale or academic projects
• Exposure to cloud ML platforms (Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, or GCP)
• Familiarity with RAG architectures and retrieval-based grounding
• Experience with NLP libraries (spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK)
• Introductory experience with weak supervision or noisy-label learning
• Interest in healthcare or biomedical NLP
• Curiosity about knowledge graphs, ontologies, or structured prediction
• Familiarity with secure data handling practices
• Willingness and ability to learn workflows for sensitive or regulated data (e.g., HIPAA-covered healthcare data), including privacy-aware data handling and secure ML workflows

EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• 1–2 years of experience in machine learning, applied NLP, or software engineering
• Demonstrated some experience training or fine-tuning ML models, not just using APIs
• Ability to collaborate with senior engineers and domain experts and incorporate feedback

BENEFITS:

• 401(k)
• Dental Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Free catered lunches

At Makita USA, we believe our employees are the driving force behind our success. That’s why we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to support your health, financial well-being, and professional growth. When you join Makita, you become part of a dynamic, innovative, and team-oriented culture that values hard work and dedication.

Makita is a worldwide leader in the professional power tool industry. Over the past 100 years, we have built a reputation for using the finest raw materials, the most advanced manufacturing equipment, and the most rigorous quality testing in the industry. Headquartered in La Mirada, CA, Makita U.S.A., with offices in Reno, NV, Wilmer, TX, and Flowery Branch, GA, has brought Makita's best-in-class engineering advantage to professional power tool users in America since 1970.

Salary $85,000 - $100,000 annually

Job Summary

Makita is the innovation leader in power tools, equipment, and accessories – so join the team at our U.S.A. headquarters in Southern California and help us make the Makita Advantage come alive at trade shows and events across the U.S.A.

As the Trade Show Manager, you will take a leading role in planning, coordinating, and executing trade shows and events to reach our target audiences, including pro-contractors, hardware dealers/distributors, and the media. You will help communicate the Makita Advantage to these audiences by creating and executing event plans that include compelling signage and graphics, hands-on product demonstrations, dynamic display structures, efficient lighting, effective lead collection, and more.

Areas of focus will range from budget and calendar planning to asset co-design and sourcing, inventory management, and hands-on activity, including booth set-up and on-site management at select events.

Across categories, Makita products have leading power and performance but with lower noise, less vibration, reduced weight, and superior ergonomics. This combination of performance and comfort is unique in the category, giving users of all types – from pro contractors to DIYers – a complete solution that helps get work done faster and more efficiently. Join our team and be a part of this exciting innovation story.

Essential Job Duties

• Work with the senior communications manager as well as product management, channel marketing, brand marketing, operations, and senior management on a full range of trade show activities. This will include live trade shows in major convention venues.
• Build the annual Makita U.S.A. trade show calendar and budget.
• Work with our off-site logistics partner to manage and track asset inventory and display tool inventory for use at trade shows. This includes inspection and inventory reconciliation as well as routine maintenance and repairs.
• Collaborate with in-house marketing staff and vendors to build booth assets, including structures and signage.
• Work with the in-house product management team (and occasionally outside vendors) to create demonstrations of key Makita products.
• Create effective lead collection tactics at trade shows.
• Coordinate show orders and shipping for select events.
• Coordinate on-site details for select events, including shipping and receiving, staffing, and set-up.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Skills Required

• Familiarity with best practices in trade show booth construction, including lighting and graphics.
• Basic inventory management of trade show assets.
• Building and managing a budget.
• Post-event actions, including reviewing and approving show invoices.
• Strong ability to proactively coordinate numerous projects while maintaining follow-up and follow-through skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, percentages, and area. .
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, technical procedures, or trade show regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals (e.g., booth set-up instructions).
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and vendors.
• Ability to learn: Obtain knowledge and understanding of our power tools, competition, target professional users, the product applications, and the types of dealers that support the users.
• Presentation skills: Organize information and present to both internal and external audiences.
• The ability to work under pressure and with constantly changing priorities
• Experience in executing a trade show booth “from the ground up”, including arranging shipping and on-site booth set-up, as well as ordering and tracking on-site show services.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

This position is based full-time in the Makita U.S.A. Home Office in La Mirada, CA.

EVENTS: This position will include indoor and outdoor events. The work environmental characteristics for these events include the following:

• The employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
• In rare instances, activity goes into the night and proceeds until completion, rain or shine.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, as well as risk of electrical shock and vibration. Personal protective equipment is provided, and professional labor is on hand to manage advanced electrical applications.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. At select trade shows, noise levels are similar to a construction job site. Hearing protection is provided.

Education and/or Experience Desired

• Five to ten years of related trade show and event experience in venues including convention halls.
• Experience in executing a trade show booth “from the ground up”, including arranging shipping and on-site booth set-up, as well as ordering and tracking on-site show services.

Travel: The expected travel for this role is up to 15%.

Physical Demands

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

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 20 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee must be able to safely operate a moving vehicle per our company policy.
• Occasional extended hours are expected to complete assembly or take-down activities on-site during trade shows and events, as well as in the office.

Our Benefits Include:

Health & Wellness

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options after 30 days of employment
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Employee assistance program (EAP) for mental health and well-being
• Paid subscription to Headspace and 5 other members of your choice

Financial Security

• Competitive pay & performance-based incentives
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Basic Term Life insurance is 100% company paid
• Long-term Disability Coverage 100% company paid
• Disability Coverage
• Voluntary Coverage: Critical illness, accidental, hospital indemnity, whole life, and supplemental life plans.

Work-Life Balance

• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays)
• Employee discounts on Makita tools and accessories - because we know you love quality tools!

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Disclaimer:

This description is based on management's assessment of the requirements and functions of the job as of the date this description was prepared. It is a general guideline for managers and employees, but it does not intend to be an exhaustive list of all of the elements of the job. Management reserves the right to modify the description at any time, or to vary the duties and responsibilities of the job on a temporary or indefinite basis to meet production, scheduling, or staffing needs.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit. Company policy prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, age, gender, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, veteran status, military service, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, genetic information, medical (including genetic characteristics or cancer diagnosis), actual or perceived sexual orientation, or any consideration protected by federal, state or local laws. All such discrimination is prohibited. Additionally, the Company will provide registered domestic partners with all rights and benefits as required by Law. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) prohibits employers from requesting or requiring genetic information of an individual or a family member of the individual. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws and providing equal employment opportunities.