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Lead design and implementation of modernized insurance underwriting and policy administration solutions. Drive cloud transformation, data-driven and secure architectures, improve risk selection and claims resolution, enhance customer experience through automation, mentor technical teams, manage client relationships, and oversee project lifecycle, budgets, and delivery quality.

Architect and ship full-stack, AI-powered government software using the Palantir stack. Own technical design, implementation, reliability, and performance while translating agency requirements into production features. Lead technical direction, work within classification and data-handling constraints, engage federal stakeholders, and mentor engineers. The role requires building constituent assistants, intake flows, case-routing systems, and agency dashboards at significant scale.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Lead hands-on implementation of Celonis solutions for enterprise (federal) customers. Direct AI deployment agents to build data models, analyses, KPIs and operational solutions; validate AI outputs; run discovery and value workshops; ensure data connectivity; drive rollout, adoption, and handover; and develop domain-specific solution patterns to quantify business impact and sustainably scale process improvements.

Technical lead for production database and storage systems: define and execute cloud DB/storage architecture and strategy focused on reliability, scalability, observability, and security. Support and operate large-scale self-managed and AWS-managed databases, lead incident response and RCA, run HA/DR drills, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotation, and use AI code-generation tools to improve infrastructure delivery.

Build and optimize MongoDB’s SQL interface, including query engines, SQL-to-MQL translation, database connectors, and BI integrations. Develop backend systems that improve performance, scalability, reliability, and usability for large datasets and complex queries. Collaborate with product managers and customer experience teams, contribute to roadmap initiatives, resolve bugs, and lead major technical projects.

As a Software Engineer in Frontier AI Infrastructure, you'll design secure systems for the public sector, improve engineering standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet government requirements. You'll also participate in customer engagements and contribute to the product strategy while ensuring compliance with federal regulations.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Seeking a Staff Storage Engineer to design and build control plane for an AI storage platform, focusing on scalability and performance across diverse environments.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.