Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform San Francisco (San Francisco)

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform About Highnote Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an embedded finance company that sets the standard in modern card platform management. As an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform, we provide digital-first organizations with the flexibility to seamlessly issue and process payment cards, embed virtual and physical card payments, and integrate ledger and wallet functionalities—empowering businesses to drive growth and profitability. We’ve raised $145M and have grown our team to 140 employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25 US states. Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet. We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen. Job Description The Data Platform Team is part of the Data Organization and is responsible for designing and building modern scalable, secure and reliable data platforms and data pipelines. With the data platforms, we will be able to serve the product/customer data needs, improve operational efficiency and increase revenue. What you’ll be doing Building secure and scalable data platforms that support our product/customer needs and power data driven decision making. Writing high quality and robustly tested code, mostly in Java and Python. Understanding business/data needs and growth to build the right solutions. Documenting your work to support our rapidly-scaling company. Interfacing with internal business stakeholders and technology partners to support day to day operations and create new data products. What we are looking for 8 years experience building high volume and low latency data platform and data pipelines using distributed event technology, e.g. Pubsub, Kafka, Kinesis, etc., and data storage system, e.g. Spanner/Postgres, BigQuery, Cassandra, data lakes, etc. Preferred experience with BigQuery and Snowflake. Able to model and design modern data structures in SQL/NoSQL databases. A history of writing scalable, performant and maintainable code. Experience with Java >= 11 or Python >= 3.7. Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS. Docker and Kubernetes. Able to model and design modern data structured in data lakes and data warehouses. A background in the fin-tech space. Why Highnote? We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization. We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals. While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees. We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth. We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity. We’re backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Westcap, and Pinegrove Venture Partners. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade). Flexible Paid Time Off 401k program Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks paid leave for the birth parent, and up to 6 weeks paid leave for the non-birth parent. Equity in Highnote Stipend to build out your home office; internet reimbursement. At Highnote we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based. Our compensation packages are competitive based on robust market research and are a combination of a cash salary, equity, and benefits. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$230,000. Please note that positions located in San Francisco are hybrid and include core working days of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office. We provide flexible work options based on distance from our downtown SF office. Highnote believes in the power of face-to-face, personal connection. As a result, we prioritize in-person candidates. Highnote is a diverse and inclusive company committed to growing a diverse and inclusive team. We invite people from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by US federal state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Additionally, we encourage everyone to share which pronouns you wish for us to use when addressing you (i.e.: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc). J-18808-Ljbffr

Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls (Palo Alto)

Overview Senior Robotics Controls Engineer role at 1X. Target start date: Immediately. Relocation provided. Since its founding in 2015, 1X has been at the forefront of developing advanced humanoid robots designed for household use. Our mission is to create an abundant supply of labor via safe, intelligent humanoids. We strive for excellence in all we do, solving some of the hardest problems in robotics with the world’s most talented individuals. Every part of our robots is designed and produced in-house—from motor coils to AI—reflecting our vertically integrated approach. At 1X, you’ll own real projects, be recognized for your achievements, and rewarded based on merit. We believe the best work is done when collaborating and therefore require in-person presence in our office locations. As we scale from research and development to full-scale manufacturing, we are looking for a Senior Robotics Controls Engineer. The Senior Robotics Controls Engineer role involves developing the real-time software stack that permits our state-of-the-art hardware to efficiently, elegantly and deterministically manipulate and locomote through its environment. This is a very hands-on role on a team which is responsible for everything from low-level motor control to whole-body dynamic control and estimation for loco-manipulation. Our teams goal essentially is to abstract away the complexity of a high DoF series of sensors, actuators, transmissions and links such that our humanoid can be commanded via simple, high-level API’s consumed by our teleoperation and AI engines. Why this job is exciting The controls team is the first user of the hardware so you will play a key role in hardware design and sensor evaluation. There are 30 humanoids operating 24/7 in-house which you can deploy and test your controls software on. In time, your software will run on thousands of humanoids performing tasks in diverse environments, globally. You'll be on a team with a large set of responsibilities, requiring interaction with hardware, firmware, AI, platforms and production teams, all working towards building the world’s safest and most capable humanoid robot. You’ll be working with a 50 DoF biped, with hands, all driven by motors we design and manufacture in-house. Controls Team Responsibilities Humanoid controls algorithm development for balancing, locomotion and manipulation. Designing fast and efficient state estimation algorithms. SysID and calibration of actuators, transmissions and full body kinematics. Hardware integration and sensor evaluation. Tooling for hardware bring-up and debugging. Software for robot health monitoring, visualization and logging. Building and maintaining API's used by other parts of the software stack to command our robots. Must-Haves 3 years practical experience deploying and debugging controls estimation adjacent software on high DoF robots Solid understanding of rigid body dynamics, linear algebra and numerical optimization Familiarity with optimization-based whole body control, EKF-based state estimators or model predictive control for legged systems Proficiency working with large C++ code bases in a Linux development environment Familiarity with modern software development practices, source control, and testing methodologies Qualities we\'re looking for Excellent intuition for how controls software impacts the behavior of the robot You enjoy being hands-on with the hardware as much as doing software R&D work. Extreme care for how your software impacts the rest of product, eg. tele-operation, production, deployment and servicing in the field Perseverance and attention to detail Nice-To-Haves Experience with Java, Unity/C#, Python, real-time Linux, ROS2 and DDS Experience writing embedded C for interfacing with sensor or actuators Experience with the Yocto OS build system You have built your own robot and enjoy tinkering with hardware in your spare time. We seek the world\'s most talented individuals with a passion for inventing and building a more prosperous future. At 1X you\'ll get to own real projects and be rewarded for your achievements and output. We hire, recognize and reward based on merit. We believe the best work is done when collaborating and therefore require in-person presence in our office locations. We\'re excited to have you on board! J-18808-Ljbffr