Senior Big Data Software Engineer Location: Eden Prairie United States Job category: Technology Overtime status: Exempt Travel: No Job Description: Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps. These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways. Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed. Works with less structured, more complex issues. Serves as a resource for others. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. Primary Responsibilities: - Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable big data solutions - Research, evaluate, and deploy new tools, frameworks and patterns to help build a sustainable big data platform - Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions - Define and develop APIs for integration with various data sources in the enterprise - Translate customer requirements into solution design - Make accurate development effort estimates to assist management in project and resource planning - Collaborate with management, quality assurance, architecture, and other development teams - Write technical documentation and participate in production support - Participate with prototypes as well as design and code reviews - Keep skills up to date through ongoing self-directed training - The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can learn things quickly, who is enthusiastic and actively engaged You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. Required Qualifications: - Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience - 6+ years of hands-on software development experience - 5+ years of development experience with Scala, Python, JSON, Web Services - 3+ years of experience in relational databases (SQL) - 2+ years of experience in distributed systems technologies like Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Snowflake - Experience with Agile/SCRUM methodology Preferred Qualifications: - 2+ years of experience in Kafka - 2+ years with NoSQL databases - 2+ years working with Docker and Kubernetes - Experience in infrastructure services on at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred) - Experience developing rules in rules engine - Thorough understanding of service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts *All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Title: Sr. Firmware Engineer II - FPGA/VHDL (Remote) Location: Tucson United States Job Description: This role focuses on designing, implementing, and validating advanced FPGA-based firmware for space domain awareness and electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) systems. You will collaborate closely with hardware and software teams to develop high-performance, reliable firmware that operates in challenging environments, including space. The position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge FPGA technologies, contribute to mission-critical space and ISR programs, and be part of a highly skilled team that values continuous learning and collaboration. Responsibilities - Collaborate with the hardware design team to define, refine, and document firmware requirements for FPGA-based systems. - Complete FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and verification using VHDL, ensuring robust and maintainable implementations. - Perform synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis to meet performance, area, and power constraints on targeted FPGA platforms. - Support hardware and software development teams during system bring-up, integration, and testing of new products. - Provide subject-matter expertise on FPGA design methodologies, automated test development procedures, and best practices to internal teams and production support. - Conduct research and analysis of customer specifications, datasheets, and technical manuals to determine design approaches, assess feasibility, and identify risks. - Execute debugging and validation of FPGA designs in the lab, including root-cause analysis and resolution of complex issues. - Develop and refine firmware architectures that support high-speed interfaces such as DDR4, Aurora, and multi-gigabit transceivers. - Contribute to the development and optimization of FPGA-based image processing algorithms and related signal processing pipelines. - Implement and verify software interfaces to firmware, including interrupts, DMA, and AXI-based communication paths. - Participate in design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to quality and reliability standards. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support systems operating in radiation environments, including implementing and validating SEU/SEL mitigation techniques. - Assist with the creation and integration of custom IP cores from scratch to meet specific mission and system requirements. - Support continuous improvement of development workflows, including the use of AI-assisted implementation tools and automation where appropriate. - Engage in knowledge sharing and mentorship within the team, helping colleagues learn new technologies and techniques as projects evolve. Essential Skills - At least 8 years of professional, full-time firmware engineering experience. - At least 8 years of experience in FPGA firmware design using VHDL. - At least 3 years of professional experience in hand-coded FPGA implementation. - Exposure to AI-assisted implementation workflows in VHDL-based FPGA development. - Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or an equivalent discipline. - Strong proficiency in FPGA logic design, coding, simulation, and testing using VHDL. - Demonstrated experience with synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis for complex FPGA designs. - Ability to interpret and analyze customer specifications, datasheets, and technical manuals to guide design decisions. - Experience supporting hardware and software teams in system bring-up, integration, and test. - Solid understanding of digital design fundamentals, including high-speed interfaces and memory subsystems. - Proficiency in debugging FPGA designs in a lab environment using appropriate tools and methodologies. Additional Skills & Qualifications - Experience with Linux development or strong familiarity with Linux-based environments. - Experience working in Yocto-based environments. - Familiarity with communication interfaces such as RS‑422/RS‑485, I²C, SPI, Ethernet/GigE, TCP/IP, UDP, and CAN. - Experience with high-speed interfaces, including DDR or multi-gigabit transceivers. - Experience with Xilinx/AMD Versal architecture and related toolchains. - Experience with FPGAs and embedded systems operating in radiation environments, including understanding SEU/SEL impacts and mitigation techniques. - Experience implementing FPGA-based image processing algorithms. - Experience creating custom IP cores from scratch for FPGA implementations. - Familiarity with C, C++, Python, or MATLAB and experience translating algorithms from scripted languages into HDL. - Experience with software interfaces to FPGA logic, including interrupts and DMA. - Experience with DDR4, Aurora, and high-speed transceiver design and verification. - Familiarity with AXI Stream and AXI Memory Mapped interfaces. - Experience with PCB design, schematic capture, and layout using tools such as Altium Designer. - Interest in space systems, space domain awareness, and working on payloads deployed in orbit. - Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary engineering team. Work Environment This is a fully remote position, offering flexibility to work from your preferred location while collaborating with a distributed team of highly skilled engineers. You will engage regularly with colleagues who are experts in their domains and who value learning from one another to achieve shared mission objectives. The work centers on advanced optical and space domain awareness systems, including payloads that operate in orbit, which provides a unique opportunity to see your designs deployed in space. Occasional travel may be required, up to approximately two weeks per quarter, for on-site integration, testing, or team collaboration activities. The environment emphasizes professional collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning, with modern toolchains and technologies supporting FPGA, firmware, and embedded system development. Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Tucson, AZ. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $73.00 - $97.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: - Medical, dental & vision - Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital - 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available - Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) - Short and long-term disability - Health Spending Account (HSA) - Transportation benefits - Employee Assistance Program - Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a fully remote position. About Actalent Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing winner for both client and talent service. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

Role Description Driftrock is hiring an Elixir Software Engineer to join our product team and help build the marketing technology that powers vehicle sales for some of the world's biggest car brands. Driftrock's product runs on a pragmatic Elixir and Phoenix LiveView stack, solving real marketing challenges for our B2B customers. As more of the world's biggest car brands come on board, we're growing our engineering team and the volume of data we process for them. Right now we're building lead qualification across communication channels and bringing it together in our Single Customer View, while optimising our event-driven architecture for growing workloads. You'll join a small, high-discipline squad, ship to production from your first weeks, and take on more scope and independence as you go, with real room to grow your craft and your career with us. We'll invest in your development, and you'll be working alongside engineers who care deeply about how they build and will help you raise your game. What you'll own - Delivery of features within your squad, shipping well-tested, production-ready Elixir that moves our product and our customers' results forward. - Growing your scope and independence as you go. Your first 90 days - By day 30: you've found your feet in our codebase and domain, paired with the team, and shipped your first small changes to production. - By day 60: you're picking up features independently, writing well-tested code and taking an active part in technical and product discussions. - By day 90: you're a productive, trusted member of your squad, shipping regularly and starting to shape how we approach problems. What you'll be doing - Build and ship product features in Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, from idea through to production, several times a week. - Write well-tested, maintainable code using test-driven development, and take part in pairing and code reviews to keep quality high. - Help shape the how and the why, bringing your own viewpoint to technical and product discussions and to our roadmap. - Work across our event-driven architecture, building services that talk over APIs and RabbitMQ and handling a growing volume of customer data reliably. - Use data and observability to understand how your changes behave in production and whether they're delivering value for customers. - Grow your craft, learning from a team that cares about how it works, with a clear path toward senior over time. Qualifications - A solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, whether from a CS degree or equivalent demonstrable grounding in data structures, algorithms, complexity and how systems work under the hood. - Some professional backend experience, ideally with Elixir or a similar language, and a genuine drive to deepen your Elixir skills. - Some experience with web development, ideally server-rendered UI (we use LiveView with TailwindCSS). - A habit of writing tested, maintainable code, and an interest in practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, pairing, code review and retrospectives. - A data-driven mindset: you care whether the work genuinely helps customers, not just whether it ships. - The judgement to use AI tools well: you use them to go faster, and your CS grounding means you can evaluate what they produce and steer away from suboptimal solutions rather than taking the output on faith. - A desire to keep learning and growing, and to collaborate closely in a small team. Bonus points - Production experience with Elixir, Erlang/OTP, Phoenix or LiveView. - A background in Ruby or another functional language. - Experience with event-driven systems, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL or Redis. - Exposure to Kubernetes or Google Cloud. Benefits - Remote-first and flexible working environment. - Share options in Driftrock, on founder-friendly, tax-efficient EMI terms. - Comprehensive Vitality health cover: medical, dental, vision, hearing, mental-health support and therapy, cancer cover, a free Headspace subscription and Vitality rewards. - 24 to 28 days' holiday (24 + 1 extra each year, capped at 28), plus bank holidays. - Pension contributions, life assurance (3x salary) and income protection. - Electric car salary-sacrifice scheme (Octopus). - Enhanced maternity and paternity leave. - A learning budget for books, courses and conferences, plus time for personal goals. - Perks and discounts via CharlieHR, and a BMW Group employee discount programme. Company Description Driftrock's mission is to become the world-leading automotive and e-mobility marketing software platform, and help accelerate the transition to clean transport. - We work with some of the world's biggest brands, including BMW, BYD, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo. - We've been building since 2013, and our work enables billions of euros in vehicle sales every year. - We're a close, fully remote team of 35 people across engineering, design, customer success, performance and commercial, spread across the world. - We're at the cutting edge of marketing technology, with plenty of room to unlock value from data and to help speed up the shift to electric vehicles.

• Build and maintain backend services and internal tools in Python for AI-powered applications. • Integrate LLM APIs into production workflows, including prompt handling, response processing, validation, and retries. • Design and implement scalable REST APIs, async workflows, and background job systems. • Maintain and enhance components of a multi-language codebase (C#/C++, Python, web technologies) where applicable. • Work with structured and unstructured data to prepare inputs, transform outputs, and support downstream systems. • Develop systems for prompt management, model routing, response validation, and failure handling. • Debug complex issues across backend logic, API integrations, and distributed services. • Monitor system performance using telemetry tools and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks. • Automate recurring workflows related to data processing, evaluation, and reporting. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product ideas into production-ready features. • Contribute to architecture decisions around scalability, performance, and safe use of AI systems. • Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while helping establish engineering best practices for AI systems.