Title: Part-Time Continuing Education Instructor Location: Altoona United States Job Description: Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work location. For additional information on remote work at Penn State, see Notice to Out of State Applicants. JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS Penn State Altoona's Office of Continuing Education is seeking applications from individuals interested in teaching non-credit classes as part of the Penn State Altoona - Penn State DuBois Workforce Development Collaborative. Various courses, both short-term and long-term programs, will be offered during the day, evening, and on weekends in several formats as requested by employers. Classes may be provided in-person at one of the campuses, at corporate locations, or in a virtual format. Courses can serve as education toward professional development, industry-recognized credentials and up-skilling employees on new processes within a company or industry. Instructors are needed to teach any educational programs needed to meet the demands of an occupation in many sectors including, but not limited to: - Business - Healthcare - Behavioral Health - Manufacturing - Engineering - Railroad Technology - Transportation - Logistics - Quality Control/Inspection Job duties may include: - Developing, organizing, and presenting materials. - Preparing grade/assessment reports. - Monitoring student attendance. Requirements and Qualifications - Instructors should have at least a bachelor's degree, industry expertise and/or work experience in the subject matter area. - Teaching experience with adult students is preferred. Please submit a letter of application and resume. A teaching demonstration may be required. Compensation for these classes is an hourly rate, determined based on instructor experience and the frequency and duration of each class. BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. CAMPUS SECURITY CRIME STATISTICS Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Pennsylvania Act of 1988, Penn State publishes a combined Annual Security and Annual Fire Safety Report (ASR). The ASR includes crime statistics and institutional policies concerning campus security, such as those concerning alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes, sexual assault, and other matters. The ASR is available for review here. Penn State is committed to and accountable for advancing equity, respect, and belonging. We embrace individual uniqueness, as well as a culture of belonging that supports equity initiatives, leverages the educational and institutional benefits of inclusion in society, and provides opportunities for engagement intended to help all members of the community thrive. We value belonging as a core strength and an essential element of the university's teaching, research, and service mission.

Role Description We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Engineer to be the foundational pillar of our strategy in the Content portfolio. You will be the catalyst who injects deep expertise into our product portfolio. Your mission will be to research, architect, and pioneer the solutions that will process and extract intelligent insights from millions of unstructured documents and multi-media files every single day. This is a unique "founding engineer" opportunity to shape the future of content within our company. You will be one of the primary authorities, responsible for identifying and implementing state-of-the-art techniques for document ingestion, classification, entity extraction, image search, and more. If you are a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving massive-scale data challenges and wants to build a center of excellence from the ground up, this role is for you. What You’ll Do - Spearhead AI Innovation: Act as the chief technical authority, you will research, evaluate, and prototype cutting-edge solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, and other techniques to solve our most complex data extraction challenges. - Architect for Scale: Design and build robust, highly scalable, and cost-effective AI services and data processing pipelines. Your architecture will be the backbone for processing millions of documents daily with high reliability and throughput. - Tackle Real-World AI Challenges: Go beyond theory to systematically solve the practical problems of production AI. This includes managing LLM latency and variance, developing sophisticated prompt engineering strategies, and building fault-tolerant, defensive systems that perform consistently. - Be a Force Multiplier: Act as the key technical mentor and thought leader for our large engineering team and drive some mission-critical initiatives to production. Qualifications - 14+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building complex, data-intensive, backend systems. - Deep expertise (8+ years) in building and scaling production-grade services using modern backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Spring Boot or similar. - Mastery in designing large-scale distributed systems, demonstrating strong knowledge of asynchronous patterns, streaming/queuing/caching strategies, and robust observability (logging, metrics, tracing). - Exceptional communication and leadership skills. You can articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and have the ability to influence engineering direction across multiple teams without direct authority. Nice to have - Hands-on experience in the complete lifecycle of AI/ML models: from experimentation and prototyping to deploying, monitoring, and iterating on them in a high-volume cloud environment. - Proficiency with modern DevOps and MLOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated testing frameworks. - Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Docker and Kubernetes. Company Description AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination. In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Role Description - Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using Python. - Build and integrate APIs and MCP-based systems. - Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to enhance system scalability. - Write clean, scalable, and production-ready code for robust application performance. - Troubleshoot, optimize, and improve application performance. - Participate in architecture and technical design discussions to drive innovation. Qualifications - Multiple years of experience as a Full Stack Developer. - Strong proficiency in Python. - Experience with MCP and API development. - Ability to work at least 8 hours per day. - Experience building and maintaining production-grade applications. - Strong problem-solving and communication skills. Company Description Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Role Description Lead Software Engineer positions offered by Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia). Leads software development scrum team through the design and implementation of simple and scalable solutions to complex problems with .NET components and APIs in an AWS first environment; delivering leading-edge software products for our customers. - Coordinates the engineering efforts of one of our scrum teams by applying knowledge of modern software design, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks, and an understanding of application performance and maintainability. - Collaborate with the team to achieve the goal to build, deploy, monitor, and manage a highly performing and highly available production system. - Influence technical solutions while coaching newer or less experienced members on your Scrum team. - Articulate key issues, draft action plans, and communicate with management. - Construct and coordinate services published to both internal and external consumers. - Implement platform-level components including event architectures, messaging, and caching solutions. - Write readable, maintainable, and efficient code while also ensuring team members do the same. - Design and implement REST APIs, services, system tasks, and cloud solutions. - Enhance the performance and reliability of our current solutions. Qualifications - Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, or related field. - 6 years of experience developing software in C#. - 6 years of experience in each of the following: - Programming web applications. - Performing object-oriented development. - Using design patterns including REST. - Using Angular or React web technologies. - Working with relational DBMS data structures including writing SQL statements. - Identifying system bottlenecks and architectural risks. - In lieu of a bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience, the employer will accept: - A master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience. - A Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience. - 1 year of experience working with AWS. Requirements - Position reports to Atlanta, GA, but may telecommute from any location in the U.S. - Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently. Benefits - Base salary of $186,137 - $204,385. - Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations. - Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year. - Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. - Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.