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Lead mission formulation and architecture: develop mission concepts from customer needs, perform mission-level analyses and top-level budgets, define requirements and design for spacecraft and RF/optical instruments, run engineering trade studies using code/tools, evaluate constellation configurations, and coordinate across disciplines.

Serve as technical lead for a designated space mission across concept, development, verification, and on-orbit operations. Translate customer objectives into requirements and ICDs, manage requirements traceability, subsystem budgets, risk, design changes, and reviews. Coordinate cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, software, data, ground, operations), interface with customers, and improve engineering processes and tools.

Sola seeks a Software Engineer for Desktop Automation to own and enhance their execution platform, focusing on reliability and integrating with AI pipelines.

The role involves developing and verifying SoCs using ASIC and FPGA technologies, creating test plans, and debugging with team collaboration.

As a Staff Optical Engineer, you will lead testing and validation of optical products, develop test plans, analyze data, and collaborate on technical issues while mentoring junior engineers.

The engineer will design, characterize, and develop coherent optical transceivers, focusing on digital-optical integration and performance optimization.

The engineer will develop high-speed analog ICs, oversee product development phases, and collaborate with various engineering teams to ensure product performance and reliability.

Design, build, and operate scalable full-stack systems for an AI-native enterprise platform: backend services, APIs, frontend React apps, workflow orchestration, integrations, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production readiness while collaborating with product and customers.

Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable Linux infrastructure across on-prem and AWS with primary focus on Kubernetes/EKS. Build and automate IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), monitoring/alerting, cluster upgrades, autoscaling, security hardening, multi-tenant isolation, and disaster recovery. Support container builds, GitLab Runners, RDS databases, compliance (SOX/SOC2), incident response, and on-call rotations while collaborating with development and QA teams to improve reliability and operational standards.

Support design, implementation, and operation of cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Develop Infrastructure as Code, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, monitor and troubleshoot environments, participate in incident response and on-call rotation, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and automation.

The Software Engineer will design and implement systems across the stack, focusing on AI-native engineering principles, distributed systems, and high-performance data processing.

Design, configure, and administer the Splunk observability platform for enterprise-scale log and event ingestion. Optimize pipelines for performance, cost, and retention; integrate Splunk with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes), CI/CD and deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible), and enterprise systems (ServiceNow, PagerDuty). Implement automation using Python/Bash, manage Splunk apps/roles, and support observability and APM initiatives while collaborating within SAFe using Jira and Confluence.

Lead architecture and evolution of enterprise observability platforms (APM, infrastructure monitoring, session replay, log analytics). Define integration patterns, telemetry standards, and governance. Partner with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Infrastructure to embed observability best practices, evaluate new technologies (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, AI-driven observability), drive platform standardization, and manage vendor relationships to improve MTTD/MTTR and system reliability.

Design and build secure, scalable cloud-native, AI-enabled applications and microservices for utilities. Lead architecture, translate requirements, develop APIs and data-driven solutions, mentor engineers, and ensure software quality and delivery.

Design, build, and maintain backend services for identity, access control, secure content sharing, and data access on the data platform. Contribute to Dgraph internals and Data Studio tooling, collaborate with platform and infra teams, drive permissions and secure-sharing architecture, and write well-tested Go and Python code focusing on reliability, security, and performance.

Administer and stabilize the studio Flow Production Tracking environment and Flow/Jira Bridge; re-architect automation/event listeners, ensure data integrity, deploy reliable services, troubleshoot integrations, document configurations and recovery, configure schemas/permissions, build dashboards/reports, and support vendor workflows across production pipelines.

The Senior IT Engineer will design a cloud-based IT environment, enhance security practices, implement automation, lead projects, and mentor team members.

Design and build Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Implement frontend and backend components, optimize performance, design distributed systems and data models, and develop/order and risk management systems for high availability.

Support automation capabilities for Zoetis' Global Network Services by programming automation functionalities and collaborating with teams.

Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance system architectures. Lead architectural reviews, define technical requirements with stakeholders, recommend technologies, mentor teams, mitigate technical risks, and drive best practices and innovation.

Design and implement large-scale data applications using Java, Spark, and MapReduce within Cloudera/Hadoop ecosystems. Integrate Hive, Impala, YARN, and Kafka, perform data analysis, write tests (JUnit), use scripting, and manage global technology teams following industry best practices.

Responsible for implementing and managing infrastructure as code (Terracore/Terraform), automating CI/CD with Jenkins, managing AWS services and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, scripting in Bash/Python, implementing monitoring and security best practices, supporting production via on-call rotations, and collaborating with development and QA teams.

Design, implement, and operate scalable GCP infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/Deployment Manager). Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitor systems (Dynatrace/Stackdriver), manage security/compliance, support development/production environments, automate tasks with scripting and config management, and optimize cloud costs.

Perform functional testing of backend systems (mainframe and middleware) for payments/banking. Validate and compare JSON and XML, design and execute test cases for batch jobs and message queues, support integration testing and automation, track defects, and collaborate with development and business teams.

Develop and maintain cloud-based, high-performance services in Rust. Collaborate with technical leads and architects, guide junior engineers, translate business requirements into solutions, and enhance applications for pricing, order management, trading, simulations, and monitoring while applying agile practices and automated delivery pipelines.