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Job DescriptionVoleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more. Your Team As a Senior Network Engineer, you’ll architect, build, and evolve the connective fabric that powers every part of the firm. From routing and switching at the core to secure edge access and cloud connectivity, you’ll design, deploy, and maintain resilient infrastructure that scales with a fast-growing, research-driven organization. You’ll be a senior member of NetOps - an adaptable, high-trust team that partners daily with a dynamic team of software, research, and systems engineers to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, observable, and secure reality. Your impact will be obvious in uptime gained, latency reduced, incidents prevented, and the velocity you unlock for the business. This role is meant to make a difference; you will maintain the backbone of a rapidly growing technology enterprise.Responsibilities • Refine/Define topology of corporate and production network, • Build out highly available and scalable network infrastructure, • Utilize Automation/IAC tools to create reproducible and audited configurations, • Enhance network monitoring infrastructure, • Participate in an on-call rotation (after building context on our systems and operations)Requirements, • At least five years of professional networking experience with increasing responsibility and scope of work, • Strong background in enterprise switching (Juniper preferred) and high-speed networks supporting distributed storage solutions. Hands-on expertise with next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent), • Deep understanding of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as VLANs, MSTP, OSPF, BGP, LAG, mLAG, virtual chassis, IPSec, • Expertise in modern network security solutions (Zero Trust, SASE, IAM, NAC) to ensure seamless and secure integrations, • Proficiency in using automation tools for reproducible network configurations, • Hands-on experience with hardware setup, including racking, stacking, and cabling networking hardware, • Proficient with Linux OS, • Eagerness to collaborate with diverse teamsPreferred Qualifications, • Experience scripting with Python or other interpreted language, • Experience with Cloud networking, • Experience with Configuration Management and Source Control #LI-MB1 We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgement. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Job DescriptionSalary: $122,000 - $139,000 annually Join EarthOptics as an Associate Director of Soil Science! Our mission is to be the leading soil information company, delivering maps that growers, farmers, ranchers, and other stakeholders use to cost-effectively increase yields and improve soil health and the climate. We are creating a future where traditional sampling methods are obsolete. With the recent merger of EarthOptics and Pattern Ag, we are combining cutting-edge genomic analysis, data science, microbiology, and remote sensing to revolutionize agriculture. Our unified mission is to help farmers and ranchers sustainably increase their yields and feed the growing world through all things soil. We are a growing company with a passion for soil health, innovative technologies, and supporting all within the food value chain. We currently have ~100 individuals spread across 25 states and 2 countries, and they come from all walks of life, industries, and experiences. We are deeply focused on building the future of AgTech and sustainability and helping the world see soil differently. The Associate Director of Soil Science will join our Soil Science team to impact our mission through people manager and individual contributor responsibilities. The Associate Director of Soil Science leads day-to-day operations and continuous improvement across EarthOptics soil labs, with a primary focus on high-throughput soil chemistry and carbon analysis, lab automation, and rigorous data quality control. This role bridges strategic leadership and hands-on technical work, managing multi-site teams (chemistry, carbon, and production) and partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Data Science, Engineering, and Hardware. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in soil chemistry and/or carbon analysis, experience scaling laboratory operations, and a strong track record of implementing automation, robust QC frameworks, and data analysis workflows. They are also an advanced user of modern AI tools for personal task automation and efficiency, and they actively coach others to leverage these tools in responsible and productive ways. Our Associate Director of Soil Science will join our Soil Science team to impact our mission through people manager and individual contributor responsibilities. The digs: • Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt, • Work Location: Emeryville, CA, • Travel: ~10% of the time, • Target Start Date: ASAP What youll cultivate as a Director of Soil Science: (Your responsibilities) Supervisory Responsibilities: • Recruit, interview, hire, and train staff, • Provide effective leadership to the Soil Science team, including setting clear goals, defining roles and responsibilities, and fostering a positive and collaborative work environment., • Assign tasks and projects to team members based on their skills, expertise, and workload capacity. Ensure that tasks are distributed equitably and aligned with organizational priorities., • Develop and implement efficient workflows and processes for managing the Soil Science team., • Ensure that all employees are aware of company policies by providing clear communication and access to policy documents and monitor employee behavior to ensure compliance with company policies., • Maintain accountability for the Soil Science team delivering quality work in adherence to designated protocols, on schedule, and budget., • Work with direct reports to identify and develop professional development opportunities and paths. Provide mentorship, coaching, and constructive feedback to help team members enhance their skills and capabilities., • Model and encourage behaviors consistent with our cultural concepts of autonomy, accountability, recognition, respect, information sharing and assuming best intent. Individual Contributor Duties & Responsibilities: • Lab & Operational Leadership, • End-to-end ownership of lab throughput and turnaround time (TAT) across all soil chemistry and carbon programsAccountability for meeting commercial SLAs, seasonal demand spikes, and peak-volume periods., • Oversee daily lab operations across soil chemistry and carbon analysis, including sample preparation, elemental analysis, and nutrient profiling., • Forecasting and planning for weekly/monthly sample volume, • Develop seasonal staffing plans, including temporary labor, cross-training and overtime strategy., • Own and continually improve workflows for sample receiving, processing priorities, chain-of-custody tracking, and shipping/receiving of samples., • Maintain and improve operations of the soil library, ensuring samples are well-organized, traceable, and readily accessible., • Uphold and enforce a safety-first culture, including appropriate PPE use, equipment safety, and compliance with USDA/APHIS, environmental, and other regulations without throughput disruption., • Lab Automation, Data Quality & Analysis, • Partner with hardware automation engineers and software teams to deploy, maintain, and optimize lab automation solutions., • Design and oversee robust automated QC frameworks for all soil assays, including controls, rerun criteria, and QC checks within LIMS and analytics tools., • Monitor instrument performance, throughput metrics, and error rates, using dashboards and data analysis to drive continuous improvement initiatives., • Ensure calibration, maintenance, and troubleshooting plans are in place for all key instruments (e.g., dry combustion elemental analyzers, MIR spectrometers, ICP-OES, FIA, and other soil chemistry instruments)., • Collaborate with Data Science and Software teams to improve data pipelines, from raw instrument output to final client-ready reports and internal model inputs., • AI, Analytics & Personal Productivity, • Act as a champion for responsible use of AI tools within the Soil Science team, demonstrating how to use AI for workflow automation, documentation, SOP drafting, experiment planning, and exploratory data analysis., • Build and maintain lightweight automations (e.g., scripts, AI-assisted templates, or workflow tools) that reduce manual data wrangling, reporting, and scheduling overhead for the team., • Train and mentor team members on using AI tools effectively (and within company guidelines) to improve personal productivity, decision-making, and communication., • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Strategic Contributions, • Work closely with the CTO to translate company strategy and commercial demand into lab capacity plans, staffing models, and capital needs., • Partner with Engineering and Hardware teams to ensure lab workflows and instrumentation align with field sensing and digital products., • Collaborate with Product and Commercial teams to understand client expectations, interpret lab data, and improve the clarity of reports delivered to customers., • Contribute to R&D programs that develop and test novel soil protocols, methods, and assays, bringing promising innovations into production., • Develop and manage budgets for assigned lab functions, ensuring efficient use of resources while meeting throughput and quality goals. Are you our soil-mate? Youll bloom in this role if you have experience in: (Your qualifications) • Bachelors degree or higher in soil science, soil chemistry, agronomy, environmental science, chemistry, or a closely related field required, • 6+ years of experience in soil chemistry, carbon analysis, or related laboratory operations, including at least 23 years in a leadership or supervisory role., • Experience managing high-volume laboratory operations in an agricultural, environmental, or similar industry strongly preferred., • Hands-on experience with elemental analyzers, spectroscopic or ICP-based instruments, and other core soil lab equipment., • Prior exposure to lab automation (e.g., robotics, conveyance systems, automated sample exchange) is strongly preferred., • Strong leadership and people management skills, including experience supervising lab teams and seasonal workforces in a fast-paced, high-throughput environment., • Deep knowledge of soil chemistry and/or carbon analysis, including techniques such as dry combustion, inorganic/organic carbon determination, and nutrient analyses (e.g., pH, buffering capacity, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, micronutrients)., • Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and improve lab workflows, with a focus on automation, throughput, and quality., • Proficiency with laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and related software for sample tracking, QC, and reporting., • Strong quantitative skills and comfort working with large datasets (BigQuery/SQL), including use of statistical and visualization tools to monitor performance and quality., • Advanced user of AI tools for personal productivity and lab operations (e.g., AI-assisted scripting, workflow automation, document generation, and data exploration), with a demonstrated track record of creating and maintaining practical automations., • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex data and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders., • Proven ability to multitask, prioritize, and remain effective in a fast-paced environment with changing demands across multiple sites. Although not required, wed love to see roots in: • Advanced degree in Soil Science, Soil Chemistry, Agronomy, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or a closely related field, • Prior experience in a fast-paced, start-up environment Aside from the green, we can offer you: • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance - 95% funded by EarthOptics for benefit-eligible employees and 55% for dependents, • Company-paid LTD, STD, and Life Insurance, • Meaningful equity option grants, • 401k Plan + Employer Match up to 4%, • 17 days of paid time off, plus 10 additional company holidays, • Parental Leave, • Professional Development Stipend + access to learning platforms, • Candidate Referral Program, • Above and Beyond Bonus Program, • Flexible Schedule & Hybrid/Remote Work Environment, • Regular opportunities to give feedback on our benefits offerings How we stay grounded: Although we have teammates working in the field, in-office/lab, and at home, we aim to create a cohesive, diverse, and enriching environment for all of our employees. We embrace different tools to enhance our workflows and communicate intentionally, both live and asynchronously. A few quick facts you should know: • We rely on Slack to communicate. Although there are a variety of team-specific systems to facilitate your work, this is our primary!, • We love both food and emojis at EarthOptics. If hired, youll come to love (and use many) taco and donut emojis., • Instead of values, we believe in actionable cultural concepts. Collectively, we hold one another to act and give feedback with these concepts in mind. Ours are Autonomy, Accountability, Collaboration, Customer Centricity, Grit, and Grace. Inclusion and Diversity at EarthOptics: At EarthOptics, we embrace diversity and equality, and stand against any form of discrimination or harassment. We base all hiring and promotion decisions on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability. We are deeply committed to welcoming and including every qualified individual. As a part of this commitment, we ensure that persons with disabilities have access to reasonable accommodations. If you require assistance during the job application or interview process, need support to perform essential job functions, or seek other benefits and privileges of employment, please reach out to us at .

Job DescriptionRigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. We believe this technology will fundamentally change the world for the better and will affect nearly every industry over the coming decades. As a Senior Software Engineer for Compute Infrastructure, you are responsible for helping to build and maintain Rigetti’s core cloud infrastructure. You will help own/implement and maintain the vital systems that power all aspects of our business and you’ll work cross functionally with world-class engineers and physicists to pioneer the most advanced Quantum Compute Platform in the world. This is a rare opportunity to combine onsite quantum infrastructure with modern cloud technology. Location Note: You'll keep a hybrid work schedule, present for at least 3 days a week in our Berkeley office. Your physical systems and your key customers are there, and you need to know them, spend time with them, understand them, and help them.Day to day in this role, you'll: • Build and deploy production software using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and AWS, • Design and implement hybrid computing architectures to efficiently and securely connect partners to our QPUs. These are the core elements of a cloud platform replicated to sites around the world, • Integrate closely with members of the quantum engineering and control systems teams to support and advise, • Shepherd and foster a culture of continuous improvement across the company, guiding software and quantum engineering teams to be more efficient and precise in their work. Your expertise speeds our quantum research and makes others’ lives more productive and rewarding, • Create and iterate on novel products that delight our customers at Fermilab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the US Department of Energy (DoE), Amazon Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and more.About You, • You relish a sense of ownership and agency over your work, and you learn quickly, • You communicate clearly, effectively, proactively, and kindly, • You remain an optimist in the face of grand challenges, • You have experience building mission-critical, reliable, and performant systems, • On tech debt - yep, we have it too - you strike a pragmatic balance among renovation, consolidation, and new features. You leave systems better than you found them, • You rigorously test and document software intended for production use, follow common language conventions and well-known patterns, and rely heavily on automation for testing and deployment. You prize the quality and stability of the systems you build, • You approach your work with a sense of urgency appropriate to the impact on its stakeholders, • You enjoy leading a high-level architecture discussion one moment, and then translating that discussion into reliable production code the next.Key Requirements, • Discipline, rigor, and clarity in your code, design, and communication. You say what you plan to do, and then you do it as you say, • You’ve gone deep on a technical subject in the past and delivered it successfully, • Fluency in Kubernetes or similar. You’ve built and owned Kubernetes clusters in production and you’ve seen them fail, • Deep experience with configuration automation (Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, et al) and a compulsion to use it well, • Domain expertise in AWS components & architecture, • 5+ years of working in production infrastructure in two or more environments (e.g. companies, cloud provider teams)Nice to Have, • Experience building and maintaining SDKs, • Experience architecting, building, and deploying microservice architectures and with Kubernetes, • Academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Physics

Job Description Company Overview Promise modernizes how government agencies and utilities support people in financial difficulty. We build technology that makes it simple for residents to receive benefits, engage with assistance programs, set up flexible payment plans, and stay on track—while helping agencies increase efficiency, recover revenue, and deliver services with dignity. Our mission is to transform public systems so they work better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable. Our team includes experts from companies like Palantir, Google, Stripe , and esteemed government leaders. We work hard and believe deeply in what we do. We're looking for excellent people to build innovative, resilient technology. Backed by over $50 million in funding from top investors – such as Reid Hoffman, Howard Schultz, Michael Seibel, Y Combinator, 8VC, The General Partnership, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, XYZ Ventures, and Bronze Investments – Promise has been recognized as one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies of 2022,” “Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2024,” and Y Combinator’s #1 GovTech startup. About the Role At Promise, we’re harnessing AI to make government services more accessible, efficient, and human-centered. As a Data Scientist (AI), you’ll experiment with and apply cutting-edge AI—from traditional ML models to the latest LLMs—to power applications that help families access essential services with dignity. You’ll work across domains like OCR, document understanding, and classification, while also building generalist models that improve efficiency and reduce manual operations. This role blends research and application: sourcing from leading vendors and open-source projects, fine-tuning where needed, and deploying models into production systems that directly impact millions of lives. What You’ll Do * Experiment & build: Train, fine-tune, and evaluate ML models and LLMs for real-world government use cases. * Apply AI in the field: Tackle challenges like OCR, document parsing, and classification to streamline services. * Bridge research and impact: Source, adapt, and operationalize models from both open-source and vendor ecosystems. * Improve efficiency: Enhance automation, reduce manual processes, and boost system performance across the platform. * Shape the future: Push forward scalable, ethical AI solutions that redefine how people access public support. What Will Help You Succeed * Experience: 5+ years in machine learning and statistical analysis; 1+ year working directly with deep learning or LLMs. * Technical expertise: Hands-on experience with model training, fine-tuning, and validation for classification/regression tasks (ROC AUC, Precision, Recall, F1). * Tools of the trade: Proficiency with frameworks like PyTorch, MLFlow, LightGBM, or similar. * Mindset: Detail-oriented, rigorous, and adaptable—comfortable navigating a high-impact, evolving environment. * Mission alignment: Passion for Promise’s work and a commitment to building ethical, transparent AI solutions. * Bonus: Experience in applied AI for fintech, govtech, or other regulated industries. Who Thrives at PromiseYou’ll love it here if: * You are energized by big, complex challenges and the opportunity to solve them. * You want your work to have a real, measurable impact on people’s lives. * You take ownership and run toward problems, not away from them. * You value clear, candid, and constructive communication. Promise is not for you if: * You prefer hierarchy and rigid structures. We operate with freedom and responsibility. * You are uncomfortable with change. We move fast, adapt often, and expect agility. * You want a typical corporate culture. We are mission-driven, ambitious, and direct. * You believe efficiency means “doing less.” We believe efficiency means doing better. How We Support Our People * 100% paid health coverage * Generous PTO and sick leave * Lunch, snacks, and coffee provided * Company retreats * Opportunities to travel and see the impact of your work * Hybrid work: we deeply value in-person collaboration and are in-office at least 3 days a week, but are flexible on working from home Promise is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant or employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, or military or veteran status. Additionally, the Company complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it operates. Promise is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, pregnant individuals, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs, in accordance with applicable laws. Promise engages in US government contracts and restricts hiring to US persons, which includes US citizens and permanent residents (e.g., Green Card holders). Additionally, candidates must reside in the US. Compensation Range: $150K - $215K