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Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
Engineers building and maintaining internal platforms, cloud infrastructure, compute systems, and developer tooling.
Backend Engineer
Engineers focused on server-side systems, APIs, services, and data processing pipelines. Includes roles explicitly labeled as backend or server-side development.
Machine Learning Engineer
Engineers focused on building, training, deploying, and optimizing machine learning models and ML infrastructure.
Engineering Manager
Leaders who manage engineering teams, set technical direction, and balance people management with technical decision-making.
Fullstack Engineer
Engineers working across the entire application stack, handling both frontend and backend responsibilities.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Engineers embedded with customers or deployed on-site to solve domain-specific technical problems. Combines engineering skills with direct client interaction.
Software Engineer
General-purpose software engineering roles focused on building and maintaining software systems. Covers generalist SWE positions that don't clearly fall into frontend, backend, fullstack, or other specialized tracks.
Technical Program Manager
Program managers who coordinate complex technical initiatives across engineering teams.
AI Agent Engineer
Engineers specializing in building autonomous AI agents, agentic systems, and AI-powered automation workflows.
Site Reliability Engineer
Engineers ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems.
Quality Engineer
Engineers focused on software quality, testing, QA automation, and quality operations.
Frontend Engineer
Engineers specializing in user-facing interfaces, web applications, and client-side development. Includes UI/UX engineering and web development roles.
Mobile Engineer
Engineers specializing in native or cross-platform mobile application development for iOS, Android, or both.
Database & Systems Engineer
Engineers specializing in database internals, storage engines, query optimization, and low-level systems programming.
Product Security Engineer
Engineers focused on securing the product — application security, secure code review, threat modeling, and building security into the software development lifecycle. Embedded within engineering teams.
Applied AI Engineer
Engineers building AI-powered features and integrations into products. Applies LLMs, retrieval systems, and AI APIs to solve product problems. Distinct from Forward Deployed Engineer (not customer-embedded) and ML Engineer (not training models).
Design Engineer
Engineers who combine strong design sensibility with front-end engineering skills to build polished, pixel-perfect user interfaces.
Account Executive
Quota-carrying sales professionals responsible for managing the full sales cycle from prospecting to close.
Solutions Architect
Technical experts who design solution architectures, run product demos, and provide deep technical guidance throughout the customer lifecycle. Covers both pre-sale (deal validation, POCs, demos) and post-sale (implementation architecture, optimization) motions. Use the sales_stage field on jobs to distinguish timing.
Solutions Engineer
Technical sales engineers who demonstrate product capabilities, build proof-of-concept integrations, and provide hands-on technical support. Covers pre-sale (demos, POC builds) and post-sale/implementation engineering. More hands-on than Solutions Architect.
Sales Leadership
Leaders who manage sales teams, set quotas, and drive revenue strategy.
Sales Development Representative
Outbound and inbound prospecting professionals who generate qualified pipeline for account executives.
Partner & Channel Manager
Manages relationships with technology partners, channel resellers, system integrators, and strategic alliances. Drives co-sell motions, partner enablement, and indirect revenue through the partner ecosystem.
Revenue & Sales Operations
Manages the operational infrastructure supporting sales teams including CRM, analytics, and forecasting.
Field Engineering Management
Manages teams of solutions architects, solutions engineers, and field engineers.
Client Partner
Senior relationship managers who serve as strategic advisors to key accounts.
GTM Enablement Manager
Develops and delivers training, content, and programs that make sales, solutions engineering, and customer-facing teams more effective. Covers sales enablement, product enablement, and field readiness.
Business Value Consultant
Consultants who build financial business cases and ROI analyses to help customers justify technology investments.
Product Specialist
Sales professionals with deep product expertise who support complex deals.
Program & Project Manager
Drives cross-functional programs and projects from initiation through delivery.
Business Operations & Strategy Manager
Drives operational efficiency, strategic planning, and cross-functional process improvement.
Supply Chain & Procurement Manager
Manages sourcing, vendor relationships, procurement processes, and supply chain logistics.
Construction Manager
Oversees construction projects for data centers, offices, and other facilities from planning through completion.
Data Center Operations Manager
Oversees the day-to-day operations of data center facilities including power, cooling, and capacity planning.
Executive Assistant
Provides high-level administrative support to senior leadership, managing schedules, communications, and travel.
Workplace & Facilities Manager
Manages office spaces, workplace services, and facility operations.
Manufacturing & Quality Manager
Oversees manufacturing processes, production quality, and quality assurance systems.
Warehouse & Logistics Coordinator
Manages warehouse operations, inventory control, and logistics workflows.
Health, Safety & Environment Manager
Manages workplace health, safety, and environmental (HSE/EHS) programs, compliance, and risk assessments. Covers safety specialists, safety managers, EHS/HSE specialists and managers, environmental compliance officers, and air/water/waste permitting roles. Common at AI companies with data centers, manufacturing facilities, or autonomous vehicle operations.
Customer Success Manager
Owns post-sale customer relationships, driving adoption, retention, and expansion.
Technical Support Engineer
Diagnoses and resolves technical issues reported by customers, provides troubleshooting guidance.
Implementation & Deployment Specialist
Leads customer onboarding, implementation, and deployment projects.
Engagement Manager
Manages customer engagements and professional services delivery.
Support Operations Specialist
Manages support tools, workflows, and processes.
Customer Enablement & Education Specialist
Develops and delivers training and enablement programs for customers.
Account Manager
Manages commercial relationships with existing customers, focusing on renewals, upsells, and contract negotiations.
AI Tutor & Domain Expert
Subject-matter experts who contribute domain expertise to AI systems through training data, RLHF evaluation, tutoring, and direct knowledge input. Covers AI tutors providing feedback for model training, domain experts contributing specialized knowledge to AI evaluation and product development, RLHF trainers ranking model outputs, and annotation specialists with deep subject-matter expertise. The common thread is domain expertise applied to improve AI systems.
Research Scientist
Scientists conducting original research to advance the state of the art in AI, machine learning, and related fields.
Research Engineer
Engineers who build the systems, tools, and infrastructure that enable research.
Member of Technical Staff
Senior individual contributors at AI labs working on core model development, pre-training, post-training, and model optimization.
Applied ML Scientist
Scientists who apply machine learning techniques to solve specific product or domain problems.
Research Management
Leaders who manage research teams, set research agendas, and guide scientific strategy.
Simulation Engineer
Engineers and scientists building simulation environments, synthetic data pipelines, physics engines, and virtual worlds for AI training and validation. Includes 3D reconstruction, embodied AI simulation, computational fluid dynamics, and digital twin systems.
Physical & Life Scientist
Scientists working in chemistry, biology, physics, pharmacology, and other physical or life sciences.
Product Marketing Manager
Drives go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging for products and solutions.
Growth Marketing Manager
Owns acquisition, activation, and retention funnels through performance marketing, lifecycle campaigns, and data-driven experimentation.
Field Marketing Manager
Plans and executes regional marketing programs, events, and campaigns that support sales pipeline generation.
Developer Relations & Advocacy
Engages developer communities through technical content, advocacy, and education to drive product adoption among technical audiences.
Events Marketing Manager
Plans and executes marketing events including conferences, field events, webinars, and sponsored experiences.
Brand & Communications Manager
Manages brand identity, public relations, corporate communications, media relations, and external-facing communications. Covers brand managers, PR managers, corporate communications leads, executive communications managers, research communications, and press relations.
Content & Social Media Manager
Creates and distributes content across owned and social channels to build audience engagement and brand awareness.
Partner Marketing Manager
Develops and executes co-marketing programs with technology, channel, and strategic partners.
Community Manager
Builds and nurtures user communities to drive engagement, loyalty, and advocacy.
Marketing Operations & Analytics
Manages the marketing technology stack, campaign operations, lead management workflows, and operational reporting. Focuses on running and optimizing martech tools (HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce), campaign execution, and demand operations.
Technical Recruiter
Recruits engineering, product, and design talent. Sources, screens, and closes candidates for technical roles.
Business & GTM Recruiter
Recruits for go-to-market, sales, operations, and corporate functions.
HR Business Partner
Partners with business leaders to align people strategy with organizational goals.
People Operations
Manages HR operational processes including onboarding, HRIS administration, and employee lifecycle.
Recruiting Coordinator
Supports the recruiting process through interview scheduling, candidate communications, and operational coordination.
Compensation & Benefits
Designs and administers compensation structures, benefits programs, equity plans, and total rewards strategies.
Talent Partner & Strategist
Acts as a strategic talent advisor combining sourcing, recruiting, and workforce planning.
Recruiting Leader
Leads recruiting teams and sets talent acquisition strategy.
Learning & Development
Designs and delivers training programs, leadership development, and organizational learning initiatives.
Infrastructure & Cloud Security Engineer
Secures cloud infrastructure, networks, and systems.
Detection & Incident Response
Builds detection systems, investigates security incidents, and leads incident response efforts.
Application Security Engineer
Identifies and mitigates security vulnerabilities in applications and products.
Security GRC & Compliance
Manages governance, risk, and compliance programs for security.
Trust & Safety
Protects platform integrity by investigating abuse, enforcing content policies, and building safety systems.
Security Engineer
Generalist security engineering role spanning multiple security domains. For security engineers who work across application, infrastructure, and cloud security without a single dominant specialization. The default home for "Security Engineer" titles when the function is clearly Security.
Physical Security
Manages physical security programs for facilities, data centers, and personnel.
Offensive Security & Red Team
Conducts offensive security assessments including red teaming, penetration testing, and adversarial simulation.
Security Leader
Provides executive leadership for security programs and teams.
Identity & Access Management
Designs and maintains identity infrastructure, authentication systems, and access control policies.
Hardware & Electrical Engineer
Engineers designing and building electronic hardware, electrical systems, power systems, and signal chains. Covers circuit design, PCB layout, power delivery, RF/antenna design, and signal integrity.
Chip & Silicon Engineer
Engineers working on integrated circuit and system-on-chip design, including RTL design, physical design, silicon verification, ASIC/FPGA development, SoC architecture, and advanced packaging.
Technician & Skilled Trades
Operators, technicians, and skilled tradespeople who work hands-on with robots, hardware, manufacturing equipment, and physical systems. Covers robot operation, field service, assembly, testing, maintenance, welding, painting, machining, electrical trades, and other hands-on manufacturing and field roles.
Datacenter Field Technician
Technicians who install, cable, commission, and maintain hardware in data center environments. Covers structured cabling, hardware rack-and-stack, field deployment, and physical network infrastructure.
Embedded & Firmware Engineer
Engineers writing software that runs directly on hardware — firmware, embedded systems, RTOS, device drivers, microcontroller programming, and board support packages.
Systems Engineer (Hardware)
Engineers working on system-level integration, architecture, requirements, and verification for physical products — spanning hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems. Ensures complex physical systems (vehicles, robots, satellites, defense systems) work together as a whole.
Manufacturing & Production Engineer
Engineers focused on manufacturing processes, production engineering, NPI (new product introduction), assembly, and quality for physical products.
Systems Safety Engineer
Engineers ensuring the safety of physical systems through functional safety analysis, hazard assessment, system safety engineering, and verification & validation of safety-critical systems.
Robotics Engineer
Engineers building physical robotic systems — manipulation, locomotion, motion planning, controls, perception for physical interaction, and autonomous navigation. Covers the full robotics stack from hardware integration through control software. Distinguished from Simulation Engineer (research_science) which builds virtual environments for training AI.
Financial Planning & Strategy
Financial planning, analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic finance. Includes investor relations, corporate development, M&A analysis, pricing strategy, and financial modeling.
Accountant
Performs general, cost, and fixed asset accounting including journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close activities.
Revenue Accountant
Manages revenue recognition, billing operations, and order management in accordance with ASC 606.
Controller
Oversees the accounting function including financial reporting, internal controls, and compliance.
Accounts Payable & Payroll Specialist
Processes vendor invoices, employee expense reports, and payroll transactions.
Technical Accounting Manager
Provides guidance on complex accounting matters including new standards adoption, M&A accounting, and non-routine transactions.
Tax Manager
Manages corporate tax compliance, planning, and strategy across direct and indirect taxes.
Treasury Manager
Manages corporate cash, investments, debt, and banking relationships.
Product Manager
Defines product vision, strategy, and roadmap for software products. Works cross-functionally to prioritize features and ship products.
AI Product Manager
Product managers specializing in AI-powered products, including AI agent platforms, LLM-based features, and autonomous systems. Defines product strategy and roadmap for AI capabilities, balancing model performance with user experience and safety. Distinguished from Technical Product Manager by the specific focus on AI/ML product decisions (model selection, evaluation, safety guardrails) and from Product Manager by requiring deep AI domain expertise.
Technical Product Manager
Product managers with deep technical expertise who manage developer-facing products, APIs, and platforms.
Product Leadership
Senior product leaders including group PMs, directors, VPs, and heads of product.
Product Strategy
Strategic roles shaping long-term product direction, market positioning, and competitive analysis.
Forward Deployed Product Manager
Product managers embedded with customers to drive product adoption and customize solutions on-site.
Product Operations Manager
Manages the operational processes that support product teams.
Commercial Counsel
Drafts, reviews, and negotiates commercial agreements including customer, vendor, and partner contracts.
Regulatory & Compliance
Manages regulatory compliance programs, government contracting requirements, and trade controls.
General & Corporate Counsel
Provides broad legal advice on corporate governance, M&A, securities, and strategic transactions.
Privacy & AI Counsel
Advises on data privacy regulations, AI governance, and responsible technology deployment.
Legal Operations & Engineering
Drives efficiency in legal workflows through technology, process optimization, and data analytics.
Government Affairs & Policy
Manages relationships with government bodies and develops public policy positions.
Contracts Specialist
Manages contract lifecycle including drafting, negotiation, and administration.
Intellectual Property Counsel
Manages patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters.
Systems Engineer
Designs, deploys, and maintains enterprise IT systems including identity management, SaaS platforms, device management, and business applications. The IT-facing systems engineer managing corporate technology.
IT Leadership
Provides strategic leadership and management for IT teams and technology operations.
Business Applications Administrator
Administers business-critical SaaS applications such as HR systems, finance platforms, and collaboration tools.
Data Center IT Technician
IT professionals who remotely manage servers, operating systems, hypervisors, and software within data center environments. Focuses on systems administration, monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting at the OS and application layer — NOT physical hardware installation.
IT Support Specialist
Provides end-user technical support including hardware, software, and account troubleshooting.
Infrastructure Engineer
Manages core IT infrastructure including servers, storage, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
Network Engineer
Designs, implements, and maintains network infrastructure including LAN, WAN, backbone, and edge networks.
Security Infrastructure Engineer
Implements and manages security infrastructure including IAM, endpoint security, SIEM, and security tooling. Operates within IT or infrastructure teams to protect the corporate environment.
Data Scientist
Applies statistical modeling, machine learning, and experimentation to extract insights from data.
Data & Business Analyst
Analyzes data to generate actionable business insights, builds dashboards and reports.
Marketing & GTM Analytics
Data professionals specializing in marketing and go-to-market measurement, attribution modeling, and revenue intelligence. Focuses on building analytical frameworks, experimentation, and data-driven insights to optimize GTM strategy. The emphasis is on analytics methodology and data infrastructure for marketing.
Data Engineer
Builds and maintains data pipelines, warehouses, and infrastructure that enable analytics and ML.
Analytics Engineer
Bridges data engineering and analytics by building data models, metrics layers, and self-serve analytics tools.
ML Data & Annotation Operations
Manages data labeling, annotation, and curation operations for machine learning.
Data & Analytics Leader
Provides leadership for data science, analytics, or data engineering teams.
Product Designer
Designs user experiences for digital products, from research and wireframing through high-fidelity design and prototyping.
Brand Designer
Designs visual brand identity systems, marketing materials, and brand experiences.
Motion Designer
Creates animated and motion-based visual content including UI animations, explainer videos, and dynamic brand content.
Visual Designer
Creates visual design assets including illustrations, icons, layouts, and graphic elements.
Creative Producer
Manages creative projects from concept through delivery, coordinating teams, timelines, and resources.
Design Systems Designer
Builds and maintains scalable design systems, component libraries, and design tokens.