Contract Senior Software Engineer (Remote) (Vista, CA)

Company Description www.spkn.app Spoken is a first-of-its-kind social commerce marketplace powered by real consumers and their genuine connections. We turn everyday word-of-mouth moments into a scalable sales engine for brands—without influencers, ads, or the noise of traditional social media. Our platform catalogs real purchases from real people, making them discoverable and shoppable by their friends. This means brands get lower acquisition costs, higher trust, and authentic engagement, while consumers get a safe, private space to share and shop with people they actually know. We’re pre-seed, early in our journey, and building for massive scale. This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor, shape the product, own major technical decisions, and directly influence the trajectory of the company. Role Description We’re looking for a Founding Engineer who can take Spoken from MVP to a robust, scalable platform. You’ll be responsible for: • Product Ownership – Leading technical architecture, system design, and development for our mobile and web applications. • Hands-On Development – Building new features, integrating AI-driven product recognition, and optimizing for speed, reliability, and scalability. • Technical Vision – Making key stack decisions and setting engineering best practices. • Rapid Iteration – Moving quickly from concept to deployment, testing and refining based on real-world user feedback. • Team Building – Hiring and mentoring the future engineering team. • Partnership – Working directly with the founder to align product and business strategy and sharing in both the responsibility and the upside. This is not just a job—it’s true founder-level involvement, with equity and the opportunity to shape a category-defining product. This is an “all-in” role so an appetite for problem solving and entrepreneurship is key! Qualifications Must-Haves • Proven experience building and shipping consumer-facing web or mobile applications. • Strong proficiency in React Native, Flutter or other similar cross-platform frameworks and backend development. • Ability to design, build, and deploy scalable APIs and databases. • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). • Strong problem-solving mindset and a bias toward action—comfortable in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity startup environment. • Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to own outcomes. Nice-to-Haves • Experience with AI/ML integration (image recognition, recommendation engines). • Background in marketplace or e-commerce platforms. • Prior startup or founder experience. • Located in the SF Bay Area (preferred for in-person collaboration). Compensation: Significant equity stake (5-20% depending on experience). Guaranteed salary & benefits upon pre-seed funding secured. Location: San Francisco Bay Area (hybrid/remote possible for the right person). Stage: Pre-seed, MVP in development, fundraising in progress.

Qualis LLC is seeking a highly experienced Golden Dome for America System of Systems Integration SME to provide expert-level technical leadership and mission integration support across a portfolio of highly classified space control, ground, and C2 systems. The successful candidate will lead and support system design, integration, test, and operational efforts for advanced space control systems—ensuring the alignment of technical architectures with mission requirements. Essential Duties: Serves as a senior technical authority for development and integration of highly classified space control systems, including space, ground, and command-and-control (C2) elements. Guides the maturation of emerging technologies through all Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) from concept to deployment. Leads and contributes to the development of space system architectures, system-level technical requirements, and associated program documentation in support of ACAT-like programs. Provides systems engineering and program management expertise for information operations and multidomain space and airborne capabilities. Conducts system-level design reviews, technical audits, and risk assessments. Supports space situational awareness (SSA) architecture development and assess associated capability gaps and limitations. Offers technical leadership across multiple space control technologies including optical sensors, radar, SIGINT, electronic support measures, and communications systems. Leads the integration, test, and operations planning for ground system architectures in support of space control missions. Interfaces with government stakeholders to ensure technical solutions align with mission needs and strategic objectives. Requirements Required Qualifications: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. Minimum of 15 years of experience in space systems engineering, systems integration, and technical program leadership. Demonstrated expertise in the full lifecycle of space system development—from architecture and design to test, integration, and operational fielding. Proven experience coordinating across classified programs and complex acquisition frameworks. Strong understanding of SSA capabilities, limitations, and future architecture needs. Track record of developing and managing high-level technical documentation, reviews, and artifacts for large defense programs. In-depth knowledge of space control mission areas and supporting ground infrastructure. Exceptional communication, coordination, and leadership skills, particularly in multi-agency or cross-domain environments. Preferred Qualifications: Advanced degree in Engineering, Physics, Space Systems, or a related technical discipline. Prior experience with ACAT I or II programs and DoD 5000-series documentation. Experience working within Special Access Programs (SAPs) or compartmented environments. Benefits Qualis LLC is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse and talented workforce who can contribute to the mission and vision of the Company. Our employees are our greatest asset and we promote a positive work environment, teamwork, professional growth, innovation, community involvement, flexible scheduling and a family-friendly work environment. Equal Opportunity Employer/M/F/Vet/Disabled and a Participant in E-Verify

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A senior technical expert responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data solutions using Databricks and Azure Data technologies. This principal engineer oversees the architecture, integration, design, development and deployment of reusable patterns and solutions ensuring that they are scalable, secure and efficient. Also, responsible for managing the platform effectively with automation and leverage emerging capabilities in the marketplace. It requires proven experience of working with developers, analysts, and data scientists to implement data pipelines, real-time analytics machine learning models. This engineer ensures modern best practices are developed and adhered to in a cloud data ecosystem for data governance, data architecture and DataOps, while providing guidance on performance tuning, cost optimization and system reliability.?

Join us in building great software—our team is looking for ambitious individuals eager to advance their development career in a collaborative setting. We are a software-focused tech company offering high-quality developer training. Want to become a full-stack developer using real frameworks and tools? This structured remote program is flexible, self-paced, and includes nearly 900 hours of project-based learning that prepares you for technical challenges in software development. The program includes: 🖥️ Tech & Programming Core Concepts • Learn how the internet, computers, and browsers work • Study logic, algorithms, and Python scripting • Build understanding of data structures and basic security 💻 UI & Web Development • Design websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap • Create dynamic elements using jQuery and React.js • Implement responsive design for modern web apps 🗄️ Server & Database Integration • Use SQL and SQL Server for data storage and access • Work with Django and C#/.NET to build back-end systems • Master full CRUD functionality and database design 🧑‍💻 Programming Tools & Languages • Gain experience with key development languages and workflows • Use Visual Studio, Git, and GitHub for real-world project control • Learn best practices for solo and team-based coding 🧪 Capstone Development • Build and deploy two real projects (Python and C# based) • Apply Agile methods and work through debugging challenges • Produce portfolio-quality code and systems 🧰 Career Development Skills • Prepare for tech interviews and whiteboarding • Create job-ready résumés and cover letters • Plan your path into the software development industry No background needed. Remote learners encouraged. Apply now: https://techschooldev.online/

About Pathway Pathway is building LiveAI™ systems that think and learn in real time as humans do. Our mission is to deeply understand how and why LLMs work, fundamentally changing the way models think. The team is made up of AI luminaries. Pathway's CTO, Jan Chorowski, co-authored papers with Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio and was one of the first people to apply attention to speech. Our CSO, Adrian Kosowski, received his PhD in Theoretical Computer Science at the age of 20 and made significant contributions across numerous scientific fields, including AI and quantum information. He also served as a professor and a coach for competitive programmers at Ecole Polytechnique. The team also includes numerous world's top scientists and competitive programmers, alongside seasoned Silicon Valley executives. Pathway has strong investor backing. To date, we have raised over $15M; our latest reported round was our seed. Our offices are located in Palo Alto, CA, as well as Paris, France, and Wroclaw, Poland. The Opportunity We are currently searching for 2 ML/AI Engineers with a solid software engineering backbone who are able to prototype, evaluate, improve, and productionize end-to-end Machine Learning projects with enterprise data. For representative examples of the type of projects you would be expected to create or deliver, see our AI pipelines templates. If you would consider it would be fun to create a hybrid Vector/Graph index that beats the state of the art on a RAG benchmark, to deliver a working AI pipeline to a client in a critical industry, or to pre-process datasets in a way which would boost LLM accuracy in inference & training - this is the job for you! You Will help design experimental end-to-end ML/AI pipelines contribute to addressing new use cases, beyond state of the art improve/adapt AI pipelines for production, working directly with client data (often live data streams) invent ways to pre-process data sources and perform tweaks (reranking, model paramater configuration...) for optimal performance of AI pipelines. design benchmark tasks and perform experiments. build unit tests and implement model monitoring. contribute high-quality production code to our developer frameworks, used by thousands of developers. help to pre-process data sets for LLM training. The results of your work will play a crucial role in the success of both our developer offering and client delivery. Requirements Cover letter It's always a pleasure to say hi! If you could leave us 2-3 lines, we'd really appreciate that. You Are A graduate of a 4+-year university degree in Computer Science, where you have received A-grades in both foundational courses (Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Graph Theory,...) and Machine Learning courses. Passionate about delivering high-quality code and solutions that work. Good with data & engineering innovation in practice - you know how to put things together so that they don't blow up. Experienced at hands-on Machine Learning / Data Science work in the Python stack (notebooks, etc.). Experienced with model monitoring, git, build systems, and CI/CD. Respectful of others Curious of new technology - an avid reader of HN, arXiv feeds, AI digests, ... Fluent in English Bonus Points Successful track-record in algorithms (ICPC / IOI), data science contests (Kaggle), or a HuggingFace leaderboard. Showing a code portfolio. PhD in Computer Science. Authoring a paper at major Machine Learning conference. You like playing/tinkering with new tools in the LLM stack. You are already a part of the Pathway community, or have been recognized for your work in one of our bootcamps. Why You Should Apply Join an intellectually stimulating work environment. Be a technology innovator that makes a difference: your code gets delivered to a community of thousands of developers, and to clients processing billions of records of data. Work in one of the hottest AI startups, that believes in impactful research and foundational changes. Benefits Type of contract: Full-time, permanent Preferable joining date: January 2025. The positions are open until filled – please apply immediately. Compensation: competitive base salary (80th to 99th percentile) based on profile and location + Employee Stock Option Plan + possible bonuses if working on client projects. The stated lower band of EUR 72k/ USD 75k for the salary base concerns senior candidates; mid-senior or mid candidates may be considered with adapted salary bands. Location: Remote work. Possibility to work or meet with other team members in one of our offices: Palo Alto, CA; Paris, France or Wroclaw, Poland. As a general rule, permanent residence will be required in the EU, UK, US, or Canada. (Note for candidates based in India: We are proud to be part of the current Inter-IIT as well as a partner of ICPC India. Top IIT/IIIT graduates are more than welcome to apply regardless of current location.) If you meet our broad requirements but are missing some experience, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.