Total 29 Research job vacancies in Maintenance / Repair category in The United States of America

The Role and the Department  

The post holder will be responsible for assisting with the day-to-day technical functions and operations in the Physics Department, providing technical and engineering related assistance throughout a large, busy and diverse selection of research laboratories, thereby ensuring smooth and efficient operation throughout the area.

The post holder will be required to exercise an acquired depth of knowledge and experience to provide flexible, specialist technical support as part of a technical team supporting all research and final year undergraduate activities conducted within the Department of Physics. Primarily servicing the needs of research, while supporting other areas of the Department as and when required, providing all stakeholders with an expert level of technical service and guidance.

Our Department of Physics is a thriving centre for research and education. Ranked 2nd in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2023 and in the World Top 100 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023, we are proud to deliver a teaching and learning experience for students which closely aligns with the research-intensive values and practices of the University. Feeling inspired? Visit our Physics webpages to learn more about our postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. Durham University is a top 100 world university. In the QS World University Rankings 2024, we were ranked 78th globally.

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TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users’ needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong machine learning engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence. Given the fast growth of TikTok in the world, we are working on building a next-generation content understanding system for TikTok monetization. We are seeking machine learning engineers at all levels experienced in machine learning, which can help us create an ecosystem that rewards high quality user experience and advertiser value.

Responsibities:

1. Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning, computer vision or natural language processing.

2. Support and incubate products with machine learning, especially state-of-the-art AIGC techniques such as GPT, Stable Diffusion, etc.

Qualifications

1. Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors.

2. Rich research experience in but not limited to the following areas (as the first author of published papers at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.)

- Image/video search, classification, and recognition

- Object detection, segmentation, and tracking

- Representation learning (multi-modality, pre-training, vision transformer, etc.)

- OCR

- Image/video/multimodal generative models

- Large language models

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Title:

Laboratory Technician

Job Type:

Regular

Company:

Health Research Inc.

Department:

Cancer Genetics & Genomics

Time Type:

Full time

Weekly Hours:

40

FTE:

1

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Summary:

Performs technical laboratory work in a scientific research laboratory. Responsibilities include performing experiments and assisting a senior researcher using cell biology and molecular biology techniques. These tasks will include such things as Cell culturing (maintaining cell lines, passaging, transfection, electroporation), DNA purification using mini/midi/maxi prep kits for mammalian cells and E.coli, PCR, E. coli transformation (electroporation, heat shock), making media and agar plates for bacterial culture, and FACS (Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting).

Salary range for this position is $37,364 - $47,814 annually which includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications:

Required Education and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in a science-related field; or
2. Associate’s degree in a science-related field and the equivalent of two (2) years of full-time laboratory experience; or
3. High School Diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma and the equivalent of four (4) years of full-time laboratory experience.

NOTE:
Required degrees must have been granted by an accredited school, college or university or one recognized by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as following acceptable educational practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

The preferred candidate will have their Bachelor's degree or Associates with 2 years experience, will be familiar with a personal computer and related laboratory information systems, Cell culturing (maintaining cell lines, passaging, transfection, electroporation), experience with DNA purification using mini/midi/maxi prep kits for mammalian cells and E.coli, prior PCR, E. coli transformation (electroporation, heat shock) experience, prior FACS (Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting) and experience making media and agar plates for bacterial culture.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation (RPCIC) and Health Research Inc. (HRI) Roswell Park Division believe that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants or job seekers because of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, creed, age, disability, pregnancy-related condition, military or veteran status, marital or familial status, domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, genetic information, individual’s relationship or association with a member of a protected category or any other protected group status as defined by law.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Qualified Individuals with Disabilities/Qualified Protected Veterans

Reasonable Accommodation Request

RPCIC and HRI are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email HR-PayAndBenefits@RoswellPark.org  and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Our Core Values

RPCIC and HRI are committed to providing an environment where patients, families, employees and community are treated with courtesy and respect. We support an inclusive environment that nurtures the talents, skills and abilities of each individual to embody and reflect our core values: Innovation, Integrity, Teamwork, Commitment, Compassion and Respect.

Grant Funding

This is a grant-funded position.  Compliance with funding requirements such as time and effort reporting, grant deliverables, and contract deliverables is required.

E-Verify Employer

Health Research Inc. (HRI) Roswell Park Division participates in the E-Verify program.

Role Summary

Pfizer’s Machine Learning Hub is seeking a passionate, creative, and experienced machine learning researcher to design and implement new machine learning tools to accelerate drug discovery. As a member of our Machine Learning Research team, you will design new approaches to derive insights from Pfizer’s proprietary data and external datasets to generate testable hypotheses across the drug discovery continuum with a focus on extracting biological knowledge. The individual will also design, establish, and manage internal and external collaborations to advance Pfizer’s ML capabilities. The ideal candidate should have an outstanding scientific reputation in the field of machine learning research for computational biology and a demonstrated passion for solving biological problems relevant to drug discovery. Our team is located in Cambridge, MA, USA and Berlin, Germany and this role can accommodate an exceptional candidate in either location.

Role Responsibilities

Principal downstream application domains include indication expansion, target identification, disease mechanism elucidation, and partnering with practitioners in these areas to advance the state-of-the-art.

• Development and implementation of advanced machine learning models specifically designed for analyzing heterogeneous biological data. This includes data from genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and other biological sources.
• Advance the internal machine learning tech stack to cope with spurious correlation, obscuring variation and inherent multimodality of biomedical, chemical, and ‘omics data
• Research, design and implement learning algorithms for analysis problems related to drug discovery
• Be an active member of a highly interdisciplinary team
• Conceive, execute and evaluate studies and experiments, interpret the results and present them to scientist in other functions
• Strengthen external visibility and scientific excellence through publishing / presenting work in reputed journals and conference/workshop venues and engaging with the scientific community

Qualifications

• Formal training in Biology, Computational Biology, Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline
• PhD and 2+ years of relevant research experience in developing machine/deep learning-based solutions and a sincere interest for computational life sciences
• Hands-on experience in handling, processing, integrating, and analyzing large heterogenous biological data sets related to industrial drug discovery research (e.g., sc/snRNAseq, ATAC-seq, genomics, proteomics, etc.)
• Proven expertise in developing machine learning for computational biology
• Highly creative person with outstanding problem-solving skills to tackle complex analysis tasks in a timely fashion
• Strong publication record and demonstrated contributions to the field
• Solid expertise with ML libraries such as PyTorch, Lightning is mandatory! Programming skills in Python must be top-notch. Experience with relevant libraries of the Python scientific stack is a big plus.
• Familiarity with GPU computing both on-premises and on cloud platforms
• Fluency with common version control tools and collaborative coding
• Passion and curiosity for data and proven ability to take ideas from prototype to production
• Strong interpersonal skills, distinct collaborative attitude, excellent written and verbal communication

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to perform mathematical calculations and ability to perform complex data analysis. Relocation support available.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,900.00 to $166,500.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 15.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Information & Business Tech

About us

The Machine Learning team is responsible for delivering tangibly intelligent devices across all current and future product categories at Dyson.

Working alongside researchers, engineers, and designers, we blend cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques with an in-depth understanding of biomedical imaging, inventing novel solutions to 'impossible' problems.

Utilising the latest biomedical imaging systems and computational biology techniques to conduct rigorous qualitative and quantitative experiments and trials, you will play a pivotal role to enable core functionality in products that most can’t imagine.

About the role

• Lead and inspire a team of scientists and research engineers to conduct research, to develop impactful intelligent technologies, and to translate results into prototypes with clearly defined specifications.
• Evaluate, customise, and benchmark image processing and machine learning methods for the analysis of biomedical imaging data.
• Act as subject matter expert in machine learning and data science.
• Define project objectives and plans in collaboration with other Dyson upstream and downstream teams and senior stakeholders and lead your team to deliver against targets.
• Perform investigatory analysis of data, applying statistical methods to establish confidence in findings.
• Design and develop clean, documented, and easy to maintain code. Integrate software builds with other teams where appropriate.
• Produce reports and give presentations summarising progress against team and project goals, effectively and engagingly presenting complex technical information and analysis to senior and executive level management in a clear and comprehensive way.
• Work independently to manage tasks with competing priorities, including prioritising the resource of direct and indirect reports.
• Collaborate with academic and industrial partners to leverage externally available expertise, managing the relationship where appropriate.
• Generation of novel intellectual property.

About you

• Doctoral degree or similar experience in Biomedical-/Imaging with significant industrial experience.
• Expert in the application of algorithms for image segmentation/detection and image analysis on biomedical data sets, particularly when operating on noisy or incomplete data.
• Demonstrable experience of data analysis and statistical methods would be desirable
• Expert knowledge of the development and implementation of machine learning algorithms. MLOps experience desirable
• Experience in translating complex biological problems into machine learning and statistical problems, and computational models.
• Feature extraction, time series analysis, signal processing, and statistical modelling.
• Ability to produce robust proof-of-concept code in appropriate languages, for example Python; C++; or Matlab.
• Enthusiasm to learn and share new methods and techniques within several areas of technical expertise. A similar passion for biology and physiology would be beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams.
• Passionate about the technical and personal development of direct and indirect reports.

Benefits

Dyson Singapore monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound, driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture, the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit, it’s an exciting team environment geared to fuelling and realising ambition.

   

While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others.

Working under general supervision, the primary responsibility will be preparing samples of soil, plant leaf, plant wood, and animal tissues for processing and analysis.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Prepare samples using drying ovens, cryogenic grinders, freeze dryers, balances, and a preparation line for sample distillation.

• Process samples using isotope ratio mass spectrometers, front-end peripherals, elemental and temperature conversion elemental analyzers, and a Gasbench

• Assist with basic laboratory and instrument maintenance and ordering supplies.

• Maintain laboratory records and inventory.

• Assist in developing reports, papers and publications, based on data collected, including preparing graphics.

• Assist in training undergraduates on the techniques of sample preparation.

The Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory (COIL) is a world class analytical facility housed in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The primary mission of COIL is to support Cornell researchers and students through sample preparation and analyses of stable light isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen and the development of methodologies related to the analysis of stable isotopes.  Secondly, we support sample analysis for external users from other academic institutions and government agencies such as the United States Geological Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Required Qualifications

• Formal training beyond a high school diploma of six months to a year; less than six months previous laboratory experience in the area of Biology or Chemistry.

• Must be able to lift 20 – 50 lbs.

• Must be willing to learn new laboratory skills.

• Ability to work alone on regular tasks, based on a solid understanding of basic protocols and objectives of COIL.

• Must be personable, flexible, and possess excellent organizational and communication skills. Must take pride in their work.

• Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, faculty, and staff.

• Visual concentration, attention to detail and manual dexterity are all required. Must be able to perform repetitive work (i.e. sample processing) with a  high degree of concentration and attention to detail.

• Comfortable working alone as well as in a team environment to accomplish required tasks.

• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.

• Must exercise sound and ethical judgement when acting on behalf of Cornell University.

• Must be able to work 2-3 hours on most weekends.  

• Experience working with diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellbeing programs. 

• Passionate about working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and wellbeing.

• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members. 

Preferred Qualifications

• At least six months experience; experience with an elemental analyzer and/or mass spectrometer. 

This is a part-time position at 30 hours per week.

   

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University Job Title:

Temporary Laboratory/Research Technician

Job Family:

Temporary Technical

Level:

No Grade - Hourly

Pay Rate Type:

Hourly

Pay Range:

Refer to Posting Language

Remote Option Availability:

Fully Onsite

Company:

Contact Name:

Amanda Anderson

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2024-03-04

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As an ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN supporting our MAINTENANCE TEAM you will be responsible for REPAIRS, ADJUSTMENTS, AND ONGOING MAINTENANCE OF THE FACILITIES AT FORT WORTH ASPEX MANUFACTURING IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS, US,

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Troubleshoot line/equipment mechanical and electrical problems, and perform efficient corrective maintenance to bring line/equipment back into a running and reliable state.

• Write and implement SOPs and Preventive Maintenance (PM) procedures.

• Identify and implement mechanical/electrical changes to enhance quality, compliance, reliability and reduce cost, following cGMP and SOPs, with minimal supervision.

• Work with Production to determine line/equipment reliability issues; provide regular feedback on line/equipment status and estimated time to repair.

• Safely use maintenance hand/power tools and test equipment.

• Technical: Troubleshoot and maintain equipment to fill and package products in accordance with standards and procedures (cGMP, SOPs, etc.).

• Perform technical setup of line/equipment for daily operation, according to SOP for assigned work area.

• Maintain aseptic personnel certification, and practice good aseptic techniques in performance of duties.

• Assist plant engineers in new equipment startups and engineering changes.

• Support training of new coworkers, and share knowledge and experience with coworkers to develop team’s overall capability.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO ALCON:

• High School Diploma or equivalent 

• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English 

• 4 Years of Relevant Experience 

• Work hours:  6pm to 6am, 4 days on shift/4 days off shift

• Travel Requirements: 0 to 10%

• Relocation assistance: No

• Sponsorship available: No

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Industrial maintenance / trouble shooting

• Manufacturing Electro-mechanic experience

• Abilities on electrical, electronic, pneumatic and mechanics

• Experience repairing different types of machinery

• Basic Troubleshooting - breakdown steps to trouble shoot errors

• Manufacturing automation equipment -high volume / high speed equipment

• General automation knowledge, PLCs, photo eyes, VFDs, etc.

• Filling and carton experience. 

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

• Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and learnings as work evolve

• See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities

• Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!

• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off for exempt associates; PTO for hourly associates, and much more!

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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

Accountabilities:

•    Perform daily functions in the lens processing pilot line including basic knowledge of molding, fill/close, curing, de-molding, hydration, extraction and inspection in compliant and efficient manner.
•    Perform manufacturing batch record review.
•    Carry out essential tasks of Pilot Line Technician as required maintaining production schedule adherence and efficiencies. These essential tasks include: Monomer and solution prep manufacture; Set up and running of Dry molding lines, Metrology testing in the Dry area, Operation of the Fill and close Module, Operation of the curing process, Process lens molds through the demolding/delensing process, Prepare and set up the hydration tanks and follow lenses through the hydration and extraction process, Perform lens inspections per procedure and training certification, Perform Final QC testing, Perform Lens Sectioning.
•    Provide basic maintenance to lens manufacturing equipment.
•    Complete all necessary inventories and documentation for lens processing.
•    Responsible for inventory of the number of lenses processed.
•    Complete all documentation following the lenses throughout the manufacturing process.
•    Prepare select lenses for clinical trials.
•    Verify lenses are manufactured according to documented procedures.
•    Complete all necessary documentation to support both clinical and non-clinical pilot production
•    Assist with any additional projects assigned by Cross functional teams.
•    Foster a culture of inclusion, efficiency and compliance within the Pilot Line Team.
•    Ensure all necessary inventories and documentation for lens processing is complete.
•    Ensure all forms kept In the Pilot Line Lab used to track performance of required periodic cleaning, calibration, etc., are current and compliant.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·         Working knowledge in MS Office Suite, including Word and Excel.

·         Must be detail oriented and have excellent hand-eye coordination.

·         Working knowledge of cGMP requirements.

·         Must be willing to “Lead by Example”.

·         Effective teamwork and communication skills.

·         Ability to meet strict deadlines and work under pressure.

·         Flexibility in accepting work assignments as required by the needs of the business.

·         Medical Device or related regulatory industry experience is preferred.

·         cGMP experience is required.

·         R&D pilot operations experience is preferred.

Work Environment:

·         The individual will be required to work in Laboratory Controlled environment, working with and around machinery. Possible extended periods of sitting, inspecting parts through Opticspec, working with chemicals and processing equipment, as required.

·         Flexibility in working hours is required e.g. to meet deadlines i.e. working early/late/outside of normal hours.

·         The role will require the individual to come into contact with hazardous materials or working environments. The individual will be required to wear/use the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for the task in hand outlined in SOP’s including items such as lab coat, eye protection and gloves. The job requires the handling of materials that come under HSE guidelines.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent

• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English

• Work Hours: 40 Hours a week

• Relocation Assistance: No

• Sponsorship Available: No

• Travel Requirements: No Travel Required

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The Leidos Innovations Center is looking for a Principal Research Scientist in the area of Machine Learning (ML) who has a proven track record in developing technology-based approaches that yield novel, innovative capabilities while advancing the state of the art. 

Primary Responsibilities
The principal research scientist will serve in the role of principal investigator on contract R&D and internal R&D programs, engaging R&D customers and transition partners to develop new business opportunities and leading teams of researchers and engineers in the development, adaptation, and extension of innovative ML-based approaches and solutions across a range of technical areas and application domains, for diverse and often disparate types of data and complexity, and for projects that are inherently both fundamental and applied in nature. 

The innovative technical solutions will advance the state of the art in machine learning and/or artificial intelligence while addressing long-term problems of importance to national security.  As such, candidates should have successful, proven, and demonstrable experience leading proposals and winning competitive research and development efforts, and then leading high-performing teams in the development and integration of software-based solutions for customers such as DARPA and other branches of the Department of Defense. 

The Principal ML Research Scientist will also have a hands-on roll and is expected to customize and create various machine learning algorithms to operate over multi-domain data and optimizing the performance of those algorithms on the data.  They will develop automation to extract and prepare features from multi-domain datasets. They will adapt NLP libraries/toolkits that include transformer models like BERT and ChatGPT, as well as Stanford CoreNLP, Spacy, NLTK, Word2Vec, and Gensim.

Basic Qualifications

• M.S degree in Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field. (Ph.D. is preferred)
• At least 10 years of industrial/academic experience advancing the state-of-the-art machine learning-based research through demonstrable, verifiable technical results in the area of natural language processing, human language understanding, computational linguistics. 
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience adapting the following technologies in the development of novel technology-based approaches as part of research projects: NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Keras, Genism, etc.
• Strong and proven customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true technical challenges and requirements associated with opportunities, recommending alternative technical approaches, and shaping future opportunities.
• Understanding of transformers and foundation models
• Python proficiency
• Self-starter with high intellectual curiosity
• Great communication skills, able to explain language model results to a non-technical audience
• Proficient in data exploration techniques and tools
• Must be a U.S Citizen
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance with potential eligibility for Top Secret.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field. 
• Track record of extending ML and AI tools and algorithms for new challenges 
• Experience applying and leading the application of ML/AI-based approaches and techniques in fundamental research contexts, to problems in complex domains, under conditions of uncertainty, and dynamic and evolving technical challenges 
• Proven track record in proposing, winning, and executing work with customers such as DARPA 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment 
• Excellent written and oral skills in communicating technical information with an ability to present complex technical information clearly and coherently 
• Proven experience forming strong teams composed of members from academia and industry for competitive research and development opportunities.
• Practical understanding of generative models
• Experience programming machine learning algorithms for GPUs
• Understanding of Convolutional Neural Nets
• Experience adapting large language models technologies 
• Discernment of when and how to use machine learning regulation
• Experience adapting ML algorithms and tools with operational workflows for customers in the US government

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Original Posting Date:

2024-02-23

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Job Scope

• Establishes, develops, executes and completes installation records, qualification protocols and validation documentation.
• Conducts routine review of validation or qualification documentation and processes to ensure compliance with internal or regulatory requirements.
• Liaises with internal parties for equipment preventive/corrective maintenance, calibration arrangements, installation, qualification and validation protocol review and approval, processing purchase orders and vendor invoices.
• Tracks equipment/system changes including but not limited to configuration change, access review or documentation update via an appropriate change and problem management system.

Requirement

• Diploma in Life Sciences, Engineering, Information Systems or Computer Systems

Interested candidates do attach your resume to angelapoh@recruitexpress.com.sg

Attn: Angela Celeste Poh Li Ying (R2095367)

Recruit Express Pte Ltd (99C4599)

CORE JOB SCOPE

· Responsible for the planning and execution of routine/shutdown, preventive maintenance of the plant’s process instrumentation, control value, electrical power/distribution system equipment etc to achieve reliability target. Responsible for Energy saving initiatives

· Responsible for facilities management and supervising maintenance & facility team

· Supervise and ensure E & I works, installation and calibration activities are completed in accordance to the company’s guidelines and environmental, health and safety standards

· Ensure data collection and preparation of all reports for efficiency analysis and maintenance

· Maintain GMP & GDP for specification data sheets, drawings, spare parts, ISO and customer audits

· Provide leadership and guidance to overall management off the manufacturing site’s environment, health and safety compliance that are critical to well-being and protection of employees and contractors

· Responsible for the planning of maintenance & facilities budget

· Manage Site, Regional & Global Projects/Initiatives as assigned

· Any other duties as and when assigned by superior from time to time

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users’ needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong machine learning engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursuit of excellence. Given the fast growth of TikTok in the world, we are working on building a next-generation content understanding system for TikTok monetization. We are seeking machine learning engineers at all levels experienced in machine learning, which can help us create an ecosystem that rewards high quality user experience and advertiser value.

Responsibities:

1. Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning, computer vision or natural language processing.

2. Support and incubate products with machine learning, especially state-of-the-art AIGC techniques such as GPT, Stable Diffusion, etc.

Qualifications

1. Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other relevant majors.

2. Rich research experience in but not limited to the following areas (as the first author of published papers at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.)

- Image/video search, classification, and recognition

- Object detection, segmentation, and tracking

- Representation learning (multi-modality, pre-training, vision transformer, etc.)

- OCR

- Image/video/multimodal generative models

- Large language models

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Associate Director, Head BPA Instrumentation R&D

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon.

As an Associate Director, Head BPA Instrumentation R&D , you will provide financial leadership, strategic direction, and decision-making support to Alcon’s Instrumentation R&D organization globally, aimed at advancing innovation and increasing shareholder return. You will create new value by influencing the allocation of resources, supporting strategy setting and its implementation, ensuring integrity and compliance of financial information, strengthening controls, driving efficiencies in processes and investments, providing recommendations into the strategic portfolio prioritization as well as BD&L assets under consideration, leads forecasting, budgeting, performance management, and resource re-allocation decisions. The scope of responsibility includes 5 R&D sites (Lake Forrest, Goleta, Erlangen, Teltow, and Schaffhausen), $150M OPEX, $15 CAPEX, 25 projects per year, and 370 FTEs across all sites.

This role will be in Lake Forest, CA. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Business leader and key advisor/finance business partner to the Instrumentation R&D organization (decision support)
• Supports strategy and priority setting, and drive its implementation
• Drive value creation through effective resource allocation and reallocation to pipeline projects
• Provide inputs and recommendations into portfolio prioritization and BD&Ls
• Create tools, processes, reports and metrics to accurately budget, forecast and explain business performance
• Proactively manage performance to meet or exceed financial objectives
• Leads financial integration of acquisitions that relate to Instrumentation R&D
• Identify, raise and resolve key business and financial issues with minimum oversight
• Responsible for accurate and timely month-end close process for Instrumentation R&D
• Drives productivity and efficiency

What You'll Bring To Alcon:

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school+15 yrs;Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English.
• 7 Years of Relevant Experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting / finance and CPA, CMA or MBA is preferred
• Extensive experience in FP&A and accounting background (prior experience in R&D or manufacturing is a plus)
• 6 years of demonstrated leadership
• Broader understanding of finance (beyond accounting and FP&A), project management, and procurement
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (incl. ability to synthesize, simplify, and convey story/messages concisely)
• Ability to influence key partners with different interests/disciplines and see big picture
• Ability to manage complexity and simplify/standardize outcomes
• Proactivity, attention to detail and quality

How You Can Thrive At Alcon:

• Benefit from a growing, innovative environment.
• Sharpen your current skills and gain exposure within different areas of the business.
• Focused and strategic growth and development opportunities.
• Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight and improve lives!
• Work hours: Standard Hours, Monday - Friday (On-site)
• Travel Requirements: 5%
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Sponsorship available: Yes

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Total Rewards

Alcon’s Total Rewards programs are designed to align to incentives with business goals, encourage the right values and behaviors, and deliver long-term value.  The first layer of our rewards program is compensation.  We offer a combination of fixed pay and variable pay, which includes short-term incentives, and long-term incentives for eligible population.  Our benefits program provides security for life events through life and disability insurance, supports savings for retirement, promotes good health and well-being and supports associates and their families during times of illness.  To learn more about Alcon’s Corporate Social Responsibility including our Total Rewards, click here

  

Pay Range

$120,160.00 - $180,240.00

  

Pay Frequency

Annual

  

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

• Performs the full range of outside maintenance and landscaping activities involved on campus facilities.
• Maintains work and equipment areas and works with supervisor to ensure supplies and equipment are on hand.
• Maintains surfaces as sidewalks, steps, walls, curbs, ramp, roads, etc.
• Ensures adherence to conduct, safety, fire, care of equipment, housekeeping rules and regulations.
• Removes broken concrete and prepares subsurfaces for repair including leveling ground and tamping fill material such as sand, dirt and gravel.
• Operates pick up trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks and other vehicles (weight up to 10,000 pounds) to tow and carry equipment, lawn materials and supplies, etc.
• Prunes and trims shrubs, trees, and other plant as required and to obtain a proper balance between roots and top growth.

Starting at $25.45 Per Hour (WG 8)

• Maintain shop and storage areas and equipment (air compressor) operational, including ventilation and dust control systems.
• Perform miscellaneous maintenance and repair duties that relate to facility or building repair, i.e., painting, roofing, minor cement repairs, office renovation, and move equipment, furniture, stored material.
• Ability to read and interpret repair and maintenance manuals and schematic drawings.
• Use power and hand tools and is responsible for their maintenance and proper use.
• Periodic security and operational checks to ensure that the alarm response system for equipment breakdowns is working properly.

Starting at $24.58 Per Hour (WG 6-7)