Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Lead design and training of large-scale transformer and hybrid foundation models across text and multimodal domains. Drive architecture choices (attention variants, MoE), optimize training stability and optimizers, validate scaling laws and compute/data tradeoffs, design loss and alignment strategies (RLHF, DPO, contrastive), and execute distributed training (FSDP, ZeRO-3, tensor/pipeline parallelism) with mixed precision and checkpointing while partnering with ML systems teams.

Lead Higher Education sales by building and closing mid-market and enterprise pipelines. Run consultative discovery, demos, and pilot programs; navigate academic stakeholders; craft institutional narratives about integrity and responsible AI; and partner with product on features and onboarding.

Lead Rumi's content and community: set editorial strategy and calendar, produce high-quality written and social content, repurpose and distribute product updates and educator stories, build lightweight distribution and engagement systems, track performance, and collaborate with sales and founders to support launches and campaigns.

Lead district-level sales for K-12 EdTech: build pipeline from prospecting to close, cultivate relationships with superintendents and curriculum/IT leaders, run pilots and procurement, create repeatable district sales playbook, inform product roadmap, and represent the company at conferences and educator communities.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Lead LucidLink’s communications strategy, media and analyst relations, agency partnerships, editorial planning, customer storytelling, and product launch communications. The role aims to reposition LucidLink as an AI and developer-focused company, increase market awareness, and translate communications into revenue. Responsibilities include managing a six-figure budget, coordinating executives and customer references, responding to media inquiries, and supporting launches across multiple technical products and industries.

Volunteer UI/UX Designer to help build a design system and design internal applications. Work remotely 4–6 hours/week with a global nonprofit, collaborating with a senior UI/UX manager to improve front-end design practices and digital assets.

Oversee global analytics and algorithm design initiatives for a nonprofit: identify high-impact projects, coordinate with student directors, collect feedback, design and run training for developers and technical advisors, and form partnerships to support implementation. Volunteer commitment ~5-6 hours/week.

Volunteer UI/UX Designer to help build a UI design system and design internal apps for a global nonprofit. Work ~4-6 hours/week, remotely (GMT ±3), collaborate with the UI/UX Manager, improve design guidelines and digital assets to support the organisation's digital transformation.

Work with stakeholders, product, and engineering teams to gather, analyze, and document business and user requirements; write user stories and acceptance criteria; support backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing, and validation; produce process flows and specifications; identify process improvements and facilitate communication between technical and non-technical teams.

Provide remote sales and use tax compliance services to small and midsize clients: import and reconcile tax data, prepare reports and returns, manage credits and cash requests, reconcile GLs and payments, maintain tax calendars, handle notices, and proactively communicate with clients.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.

Design, build, and launch AI-focused software capabilities using Python and distributed-systems principles. Own initiatives from solutioning and architecture through production implementation and launch while remaining hands-on with code. Collaborate with Nextiva engineering and product teams, Google Gemini, and other external technology partners to extend AI capabilities across partner environments and the Nextiva ecosystem. Solve ambiguous early-stage technical problems and contribute to system design and architecture decisions.

Lead a distributed healthcare engineering team of approximately 9–10 engineers across the United States and India. Provide people leadership, structure healthcare technology projects, drive execution, and apply expertise in U.S. healthcare systems, FHIR interoperability, and data privacy. The role requires managing complex healthcare initiatives, guiding technical decisions, supporting customer-driven opportunities, and translating healthcare requirements into effective engineering delivery while encouraging responsible AI and automation adoption.

Contract 2D Art Generalist creating concept art, character illustrations, and game art. Collaborate with the team to develop a cohesive visual direction, contribute art assets to the project, and iterate based on feedback. Work varies week to week; potential for additional future work.

Define and own the game's visual style end-to-end: create art samples, moodboards, key art, and in-style assets. Produce illustrations and concept art, mentor junior artists, collaborate with the team and community, and work with generative AI tools as an augmenting technology. Contract-to-hire starting with paid trial projects.