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Role OverviewMercor is partnering with a leading AI startup to engage a Hindi-language expert for a project focused on improving AI-generated content through image and video generation. As a Linguistic Expert, you will help refine the model’s understanding and production of visual output based on Hindi language prompts, ensuring outputs are accurate, natural, and culturally aligned. This opportunity is ideal for someone excited to experiment with frontier AI systems such as Gemini’s image and video tools, exploring how they interpret complex linguistic and cultural inputs. You’ll contribute to identifying and documenting failure modes and edge cases that help improve future model performance. Key Responsibilities - Review, evaluate, and refine AI-generated images and videos based on Hindi prompts for accuracy, relevance, and fluency. - Provide linguistic and cultural feedback to improve model understanding. - Identify and correct subtle linguistic and cultural nuances in AI-generated outputs. - Experiment with Gemini and other multimodal AI tools to test prompt effectiveness and output quality. - Document failure modes and inconsistencies to inform model refinement. - Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to enhance overall system behavior. Ideal Qualifications - Full professional fluency in Hindi and English. - Strong reading and writing proficiency in both Hindi and Hinglish (Hindi written with English alphabet). - Deep understanding of regional Hindi dialects, idioms, and expressions. - Familiarity with Hindi and Indian cultural, social, and linguistic diversity. - Awareness of current trends in Hindi and Indian media and popular culture. - Interest in AI creativity tools and curiosity about how models interpret linguistic prompts visually. - Excellent communication skills and strong attention to detail. More About the Opportunity - Start Date: Immediate - Duration: 5 weeks (with potential extension) - Commitment: Part-time, at least 10 hours/week - Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous — work on your own time Compensation & Contract Terms - Hourly Rate: $7–$11/hr (USD), depending on experience and background - Status: Independent Contractor - Payment: Weekly via Stripe Connect Application Process - Submit your resume or profile highlighting relevant linguistic and cultural expertise. - Shortlisted candidates may complete a brief skills evaluation or language sample. - Expect to hear back from Mercor within a few days regarding next steps. About Mercor Mercor is a San Francisco–based talent marketplace that connects top experts with leading AI labs and research organizations. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. We help leading AI labs accelerate progress by bringing in top-tier human expertise. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Job Description River Valley, a growing specialty foods and consumable products distributor in Syracuse, NY, is searching for full time First Shift Warehouse Team Lead. The River Valley family of companies: River Valley Foods, Cavallaro Foods and Garden Spot Foods, distributes a wide range of specialty dry and frozen grocery items and consumable products out of warehouses in Syracuse, NY and New Holland, PA. The Warehouse Team Lead is responsible to coach, train employees and present themselves in a positive manner while leading by example and maintaining a safe and positive work environment. The Team Lead reports to the Supervisor on duty. Wages: • $24.00 - $26.00 per hour Schedule: • Sunday, Monday, Tuesday & Friday, 5:00am - 3:45pm Essential Responsibilities • Arrive prior to employees’ shift allowing Team Lead to obtain and discuss day’s work schedule with Supervisor, • Allocate orders, • Input letdowns, • Conduct a shift startup meeting with employees, • Safety, SQF topic and any other need to know information, • Take attendance, • Lead group stretch, • Perform a pre-operation inspection of any equipment being used, • Walk aisles throughout shift, • Monitor employees’ behavior, • Reinforce safe work habits, • Check for damaged racking or product, • Make sure employees are transporting product in a manner that ensures stability throughout the distribution process, • Train new employees, • Coach employees for success, • Delegate job assignments, • Move employees to the work, • Ensure employees are staying productive, • Complete daily reports, • Pre-op sheets, • Cooler temp logs, • Shift lead’s daily planner, • Shift recap, • Ensure warehouse is clean, • No empty pallets in bays, • Trash and cardboard picked up, • Damages and yellow bins are brought to Damage Returns, • Equipment is put away and placed on charge, • Follow company and SQF guidelines when handling products, including the handling of damaged cases discovered in the warehouse, • Operate all equipment in a safe manner at all times Key Skills and Competencies • Ability to read and understand English in order to understand customer orders and supervisor instructions and ability to give instructions, • Knowledge of equipment, • Single/Double jack, • High lift, • RF scanning gun, • Knowledge of warehouse operations, • Selecting, • Auditing, • Forklift, • Loading, • Receiving, • Sanitation, • Clerical, • I.C., • Damage Returns, • Computer knowledge, • Outlook, • Accellos, • Monarch, • Ability to comply and enforce OSHA regulations, • Ability to solve problems, • Ability to learn new things, embrace change and to adapt to change, • Maintain a positive attitude, • Ability to stand and work on your feet for extended periods of time Education and Experience • Associate degree or higher preferred but not required, • 3 or more years of warehouse experience preferred but not required Benefits: We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes: • Flexible Paid Time Off, • Company paid holidays, • Health, prescription, and dental insurance, • Life and disability insurance, • Supplemental insurances, • 401 (k) with company match, • Employee assistant program, • Employee purchase program River Valley Holdings is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

Job Description Mission Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world's information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster. What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we're doing for audio information. And whatever we're doing seems to be working. We're #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth. Overview We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify's product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. What You'll Do • Collaborate with Speechify's Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK, • Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms, • Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable., • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time, • Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down, • Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs, • Preferred Tech Stack:, • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform), • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product., • An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle., • A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work., • An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry., • Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture., • Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use., • Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more. Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job Description The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. Overview With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You'll Do • Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions, • Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app, • Work within a dedicated product team, • Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap, • Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base, • Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product, • Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience, • Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction, • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time, • Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down, • Swift Programming Language, • SwiftUI experience, • Experience in Multithreading Programming, • Working with CI/CD infrastructure, • Experience with Fastlane, • SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID, • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product, • An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle, • The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry, • A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture, • Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives, • Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job Description The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You'll Do • Actively ship production code to the web products, • Work closely with your dedicated product team, • Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap, • Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users, • Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs, • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time, • Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down, • Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs, • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture, • An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle, • A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work, • The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job DescriptionFiller Operator Why Byrne At Byrne, we foster a culture built on teamwork, excellence, and professionalism. Our greatest strength lies in the exceptional talent and dedication of our team members across every part of the organization. We value their contributions and ensure they’re recognized, rewarded, and compensated in ways that reflect their impact and expertise. Pay and Benefits • Salary Range - $24.50- $34.00 per hour, • Competitive bonus programs, • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits available day 1 of employment, • Supplemental benefits available on day 30 of employment, • Eligible for 401 (k) with a company match available on day 90 of employment N2 – 6pm-630am 6750 Benedict Road W East Syracuse, NY 13057 Job Overview The Filler Operator plays a key role in executing assigned production tasks. This includes setting up, operating, cleaning, and troubleshooting production equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures. Key Responsibilities • Responsible for operating assigned filling equipment to include, setup, pre-start, startup, operation, shut down, and cleaning, following standard operating procedures., • Monitor production lines continuously to identify equipment malfunctions, product defects, or container issues and make necessary adjustments to maintain quality standards., • Conduct quality control inspections including visual checks for proper sealing, labeling, and container integrity to ensure products meet company specifications., • Maintain strict sanitation protocols by cleaning and sanitizing equipment, work areas, and utensils according to FDA and company food safety requirements., • GED or High School is preferred Headquartered in LaFayette, Byrne is a Central New York-based dairy company with a legacy spanning over 90 years. Its operations include an extended shelf-life (ESL) and ultra-high temperature (UHT) pasteurization plant in DeWitt, as well as an ESL manufacturing facility in Cortlandville. Byrne also maintains warehouse facilities in Syracuse and East Syracuse, along with a dedicated ice cream center in Syracuse. As a recognized industry leader, Byrne continues to drive innovation at the forefront of dairy processing and product development.

Role OverviewMercor is partnering with a leading AI startup to engage a Japanese-language expert for a project focused on improving AI-generated content through image and video generation. As a Linguistic Expert, you will help refine the model’s understanding and production of visual output based on Japanese language prompts, ensuring outputs are accurate, natural, and culturally aligned. This opportunity is ideal for someone excited to experiment with frontier AI systems such as Gemini’s image and video tools, exploring how they interpret complex linguistic and cultural inputs. You’ll contribute to identifying and documenting failure modes and edge cases that help improve future model performance. Key Responsibilities - Review, evaluate, and refine AI-generated images and videos based on Japanese prompts for fluency, accuracy, and contextual relevance. - Provide linguistic and cultural feedback to enhance model understanding. - Detect and correct subtle linguistic issues and cultural inconsistencies in outputs. - Experiment with Gemini and other multimodal AI tools to evaluate prompt-response behavior. - Document observed failure modes, inaccuracies, and areas for model improvement. - Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to improve system behavior on Japanese-language tasks. Ideal Qualifications - Full professional fluency in Japanese and English. - Strong knowledge of Japanese culture, social norms, idiomatic language, and regional nuances - Experience working with or analyzing Japanese media, literature, or creative content. - High attention to detail and linguistic accuracy. - Interest in generative AI tools and curiosity about how models visualize language prompts. - Excellent written communication and feedback documentation skills. More About the Opportunity - Start Date: Immediate - Duration: 5 weeks (with potential extension) - Commitment: Part-time, at least 10 hours/week - Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous — work on your own time Compensation & Contract Terms - Hourly Rate: $32–$37/hr (USD), depending on experience and background - Status: Independent Contractor - Payment: Weekly via Stripe Connect Application Process - Submit your resume or profile outlining relevant linguistic and cultural expertise. - Shortlisted candidates may be asked to complete a brief evaluation or language sample. - Expect to hear from Mercor within a few days regarding next steps. About Mercor Mercor is a San Francisco–based talent marketplace that connects top experts with leading AI labs and research organizations. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. We help leading AI labs accelerate progress by bringing in top-tier human expertise. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Role OverviewMercor is partnering with a leading AI startup to engage a Telugu-language expert for a project focused on improving AI-generated content through image and video generation. As a Linguistic Expert, you will help refine the model’s understanding and production of visual output based on Telugu language prompts, ensuring outputs are accurate, natural, and culturally aligned. This opportunity is ideal for someone excited to experiment with frontier AI systems such as Gemini’s image and video tools, exploring how they interpret complex linguistic and cultural inputs. You’ll contribute to identifying and documenting failure modes and edge cases that help improve future model performance. Key Responsibilities - Review, evaluate, and refine AI-generated images and videos based on Telugu prompts for accuracy, relevance, and fluency. - Provide linguistic and cultural feedback to improve model understanding. - Identify and correct subtle linguistic and cultural nuances in AI-generated outputs. - Experiment with Gemini and other multimodal AI tools to test prompt effectiveness and output quality. - Document failure modes and inconsistencies to inform model refinement. - Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to enhance overall system behavior. Ideal Qualifications - Full professional fluency in Telugu and English. - Strong understanding of regional Telugu dialects, idioms, and expressions. - Familiarity with Telugu and Indian cultural, social, and linguistic diversity. - Up-to-date awareness of contemporary Telugu and Indian media and popular culture. - Interest in AI creativity tools and curiosity about how models interpret linguistic prompts visually. - Excellent communication skills and keen attention to detail. More About the Opportunity - Start Date: Immediate - Duration: 5 weeks (with potential extension) - Commitment: Part-time, at least 10 hours/week - Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous — work on your own time Compensation & Contract - Hourly Rate: $8–$12/hr (USD), depending on experience and background - Status: Independent Contractor - Payment: Weekly via Stripe Connect Application Process - Submit your resume or profile highlighting relevant linguistic and cultural expertise. - Shortlisted candidates may complete a brief skills evaluation or language sample. - Expect to hear back from Mercor within a few days regarding next steps. About Mercor Mercor is a San Francisco–based talent marketplace that connects top experts with leading AI labs and research organizations. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. We help leading AI labs accelerate progress by bringing in top-tier human expertise. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building differentiated products and infrastructure in decentralized finance. The company developed Phoenix, the leading order book spot exchange on the Solana blockchain, and a top 10 DEX (decentralized exchange) with >$50B in volume since inception in 2023. Ellipsis Labs is building Atlas, a blockchain for verifiable finance. Verifiable finance enables financial applications to combine the performance of traditional finance with DeFi's transparency. All roles are in the Ellipsis Labs office in New York City. Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. As an early-stage startup, we appreciate bright generalists who can iterate and ship quickly. In this role, you will: * Build and maintain scalable production services. We currently support thousands of QPS, and future systems will need to handle at least another order of magnitude. * Implement systems to monitor performance at the micro- and nano-second level * Drive ambitious engineering initiatives (for example, realtime data indexing at scale) from inception to completion: specification, architecture, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance * 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (preferably in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code * 3+ years of experience with Unix systems * Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS * Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on relevant business context * A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude * Passion for decentralized finance * Experience working with blockchain technology, specifically Solana * Experience in quant trading or fintech * Proficiency in Rust * Above-market salary and equity compensation * Unlimited and encouraged PTO * Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents * Lunch and dinner provided at the office * Optional, company-paid travel to events and conferences

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Build and manage a healthy pipeline, lead outbound efforts, and report on sales performance to senior leadership. Experience leading sales in a startup or early-stage scale-up environment. Confident working independently while building and evolving sales processes.