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Want to build a brighter, bolder future and cultivate your career? Join Ecolab’s team and help create a world in which we all thrive. EcoSure, the brand protection division of Ecolab, partners with global brands to create an end-to-end brand protection strategy. Through a collaborative approach to on-site assessments, coaching, digital learning and industry best practices, we create a unique program that encompasses the critical components of any operation. EcoSure conducts more than 500,000 assessments annually in 140+ countries around the world. The results are real-time insights and actionable steps that mitigate brand risk and optimize guest experience. Ecolab is seeking a Brand Protection Advisor to join our team in San Jose, CA. As a Brand Protection Advisor, you’ll deliver on-site evaluations, coaching, and insights that elevate food safety, guest experience, workplace safety, and operational excellence. You’ll partner with clients to identify risks, reinforce brand standards, and drive continuous improvement, making a measurable impact on public health and customer satisfaction. How You’ll Make an Impact: Conduct a variety of brand protection visits at client locations using a foundation of consulting, coaching, and training to meet the unique expectations and program requirements of the clients and help protect their brand and delight their guests Develop and deliver summary presentations of assessment findings, areas of improvement, and recommendations to client leadership Partner with other EcoSure and Ecolab teams to solve client challenges Complete a budgeted number of visits each week, delivering an exceptional client experience Utilize an iPad, Microsoft Suite, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology to ensure efficient planning and perform essential job functions Support the growth initiatives of our company and our clients Adhere to HIPAA guidelines (where applicable) while completing operational visits within hotels, restaurants, convenience stores, the education sector, healthcare and senior living facilities by interacting with staff and residents Position Details: Candidate must reside within a commutable distance of San Jose, CA Percent of overnight travel required: Up to 75% Position requires the ability to work occasional evenings, weekends, and overtime as business needs dictate Based on customer requirements, obtaining ServSafe and/or CP-FS certification(s) may be a condition of continued employment What’s Unique About This Role: The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best Paid training program that includes job shadowing, e-learning modules, structured field activities, and customized classroom-style training Company-paid vehicle for business and personal use, where applicable Plan and manage your schedule in an independent work environment Be part of a company that values a culture of safety that includes top-notch safety training and personal protective equipment Minimum Qualifications: High school diploma Two years of hospitality industry-related experience Position requires a current and valid Driver’s License with no restrictions Due to the nature and hours of the work, must be 21 years of age or older No Immigration Sponsorship available for this position Physical Requirements of Position: Being around, touching and potentially consuming food made from or with animal products and/or top allergens Lifting and carrying 25 pounds Inspecting client playgrounds by climbing, crawling in tight areas and going down tube slides Bending, squatting, shifting and adjusting movement to assess areas low to the ground and above the head Standing and walking for extended periods of time in client locations Driving and/or flying to client locations as needed; you are responsible to have the proper documentation to fly such as a Real ID or other acceptable form of identification Driving a company-paid vehicle as required to perform job duties (pre-employment and ongoing motor vehicle record checks will be performed to determine eligibility to drive a company vehicle) Ecolab is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with a disability. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in culinary, hospitality or business field Multilingual (Spanish & French preferred) High-level customer service and advanced consultative skills Ability to work well under pressure, juggle tasks and work efficiently against deadlines Strong planning and organizational skills and high attention to detail Ability to work effectively without supervision, show initiative, good judgment, and superior decision-making and problem-solving skills What’s in it For You: Starting on Day 1: Access to our comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, matching 401K, company-paid pension, stock purchase plan, paid parental leave, select discounted childcare resources, and more! The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best About Ecolab: At Ecolab, we prioritize our talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at our nearly three million customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. Our solutions not only enhance operational efficiency but also contribute to sustainability and public health, making a positive impact on the world. We are committed to eliminating unnecessary complexities and embracing a beginner's mindset, continuously seeking new perspectives and innovative solutions to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world. Annual or Hourly Compensation Range The pay range for this position is $53,600-$80,300. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.Benefits Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click hereto see our benefits. If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here. Potential Customer Requirements Notice To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to: - Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing. - Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Ecolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please visit the Recruiting Support link in the footer of each page of our career website. Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are inclusive. We are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran. In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

Job DescriptionBenefits: • 401(k), • 401(k) matching, • Competitive salary, • Dental insurance, • Health insurance, • Opportunity for advancement, • Paid time off, • Relocation bonus, • Vision insurance About Petlibro Petlibro is a design-thinking company creating products that nurture the intertwined lives of pets and their people. We launched with a philosophy that good design, in form and in function, can make a difference. Petlibro innovates with the latest technology to solve everyday problems for modern pet parents and revolutionize how we care for our pets. Since 2019, Petlibro has grown into one of the best-selling pet tech brands globally. From smart feeders with app insights to ultra-filtered automatic fountains to pet-health-focused smart apps, our products are engineered to magnify the bond between your pet and you. We are now building AI-powered products and services for modern pet care. Job Summary We are looking for an AI Engineer to design, train, and deploy AI models that power intelligent pet care and animal monitoring products. You will work across the full model lifecycle, from data curation and fine-tuning to production serving and on-device deployment. The role spans computer vision, vision-language models (VLMs), large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI systems, with a strong focus on animal behavior understanding and multimodal reasoning. Key Responsibilities • Fine-tune LLMs and VLMs for pet care and animal behavior domains using modern post-training methods (SFT, DPO, GRPO/DAPO), • Develop and evaluate computer vision models for animal detection, pose estimation, activity recognition, and health monitoring, • Build multimodal AI pipelines that combine video, audio, weight sensor data, and other sensor modalities for real-time animal behavior analysis, • Design and operate model serving infrastructure with high throughput and low latency (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM), • Implement RAG systems and agentic workflows for domain-specific knowledge retrieval and automated decision-making, • Optimize models for on-device / edge deployment using quantization (GPTQ, AWQ, INT4/INT8), distillation, etc., • Curate and manage training datasets including synthetic data generation and annotation pipelines for animal imagery and video, • Develop evaluation frameworks and benchmarks specific to animal AI tasks (behavior classification accuracy, false alert rates, etc.), • Collaborate with firmware and embedded engineers to ship models on resource-constrained hardware, • Monitor model performance in production, set up drift detection, and maintain model versioning and rollback processesQualifications & Skills, • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, • 2+ years of hands-on experience training and deploying ML models in production, • Strong proficiency in Python; familiarity with C++ for performance-critical paths, • Deep experience with PyTorch and the Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, PEFT, TRL, Datasets), • Practical experience with the modern post-training pipeline: SFT, preference optimization, and RL-based methods, • Understanding of modern model architectures: Mixture of Experts, long-context models, multimodal encoders, • Experience with inference optimization: quantization, speculative decoding, KV-cache management, batching strategies, • Familiarity with MLOps tooling: experiment tracking (W&B, MLflow), model registries, CI/CD for ML, • Knowledge of cloud GPU infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and cost-efficient training/serving strategies, • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, • Background in animal behavior, veterinary science, or bioinformatics is a strong plusNice to Have, • Experience with video understanding models and temporal reasoning over long sequences, • Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems or tool-using LLM workflows, • Experience with structured outputs, function calling, and LLM-as-judge evaluation patterns, • Familiarity with on-device ML frameworks (Core ML, TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, ExecuTorch), • Experience with synthetic data generation for training data augmentation, • Understanding of distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed) for large-scale model training, • Knowledge of AI safety, alignment techniques, and responsible AI practices, • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and production deployment pipelinesWhy Join Us, • Work directly on AI that improves animal welfare and pet care. Your models have real-world impact on pets and their owners, • Full-stack AI role, from research and training to production serving and on-device deployment, • Access to GPU compute and cloud infrastructure for experimentation and training, • Collaborative team that values shipping over slides, • Competitive salary, equity, and benefitsWe're building the future of intelligent pet care. If you want to push the boundaries of multimodal AI and apply it to a domain that genuinely matters, we want to talk.