About Wonderschool
Wonderschool’s mission is to ensure every child has access to early childhood education that helps them realize their full potential. We empower small business owners, childcare providers, to launch and grow in-home programs through cutting-edge software, personalized coaching, and responsive support. We also partner with governments to modernize public childcare infrastructure. Our team is small, fast-moving, and deeply motivated by the impact we create in families and communities across the country.

About the Role
We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead product development on some of the most strategically important initiatives at Wonderschool. You’ll spend your time working directly with customers (traveling as needed), uncovering pain points, and building AI-powered solutions that drive measurable impact across revenue, operational efficiency, and user experience. You’ll act like a founder inside the company: identifying problems, shipping code, driving adoption, and iterating quickly based on what you learn. This role blends engineering, product, operations, and business leadership, and is ideal for someone who has launched products, acquired users, and driven growth independently. You will work closely with our sales, onboarding, and account management teams to automate workflows, build better customer experiences, and unlock new growth.

This role is inspired by best-in-class FDSEs at companies like Palantir and is perfect for builders who love solving real-world problems in the field, not from behind a desk.

What You’ll Do
Work directly with users and internal teams to identify high-leverage problems and ship product solutions. Write production code (approximately 50% of your time) and ship weekly improvements across the customer journey. Use tools like Widesurf, Cursor, and other AI accelerators to increase your velocity and quality of output. Build and deploy AI-powered tooling that eliminates manual effort and improves the experience for providers, parents, and government partners. Automate onboarding flows, proposal generation, reporting processes, and other operational workflows. Own full loops: talk to users, design solutions, write code, test, deploy, and monitor adoption. Prioritize based on business impact and collaborate across teams to drive measurable results.

What Success Looks Like
You uncover user pain points faster than anyone else and consistently ship solutions that address them. You deploy AI-infused internal tools or product experiences that improve core metrics (conversion, retention, revenue). You fully own feedback loops, from discovery to deployment, and iterate rapidly. Internal teams rely on your tools to operate faster and with fewer resources. You’re moving fast, staying close to the customer, and operating with very little hand-holding.

Who You Are
A builder and founder at heart, you’ve started a company, built products that got users, or made revenue independently. Comfortable talking to users weekly and distilling insight into product decisions. Technical enough to ship production code on your own, experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar languages. Experienced using AI/LLMs and developer tools like Windsurf and Cursor to move faster and smarter. Business-minded, you’ve worked in consulting, managed a P&L, or attended business school and know how to prioritize based on ROI. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and energized by a high-trust, high-impact, in-person environment.

Why Join Us
Make a direct impact on families, small business owners, and communities. Operate with founder-like ownership on the company’s most important priorities. Join a small, fast-moving team with a bias for action. Talk to users, ship weekly, and see your work go live and drive real-world outcomes. Help reimagine early education and child care for the modern era.

Why This Role Matters

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for evaluating current manual processes and making them more efficient, robust  and reliable through improved instructions, tooling or implementing automation solutions.  This role is ideal for someone with strong factory-floor instincts, who understands how to build things at rate and with an eye towards economics based automation in the real world—not just on paper—and who thrives in a fast-moving, build-focused environment. In this role your work will optimize processes and enable production employees, engineers and scientists across the organization as they bring our demonstration system online.

What You'll Do

• Set-up and analyze manufacturing processes to identify assembly sequence and tooling improvements as well as automation opportunities that reduce labor and increase throughput, capacity, capability, and yield
• Collaborate with design engineering to influence product DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturability/Automation) to ease automation integration
• Design and develop tools that aid in error free assembly, improve safety and quality
• Write and or edit electronic work instructions for repetitive assembly steps to document the best known practices,  incorporate inspection steps to verify quality, document traceability and data collection steps as needed
• Specify, source, and deploy off-the-shelf or custom automation equipment including conveyors, actuators, robotics, inspection stations, and tooling
• Write and maintain documentation for equipment setup, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance
• Support process development and initial production, with a focus on root cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Facilitate change management on the facility floor; including manufacturing validation
• Partner closely with area managers, manufacturing technicians, mechanical engineers, and quality to ensure equipment performance aligns with production goals

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related equivalent experience in this field
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering or automation in a relatable production environment
• Hands-on experience developing and integrating automation equipment, including mechanical and control systems (pneumatics, motion control, sensors)
• Experience with robotic arms (e.g., UR, Fanuc, ABB), end-of-arm tooling, and collaborative automation
• Strong CAD proficiency (e.g., PTC Creo) and ability to design tooling and fixturing
• Demonstrated capability with PLCs, industrial communication protocols, and control systems (e.g., Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Beckhoff, etc.)
• Solid understanding of process validation, process capability, and yield improvement methodologies and dashboard reporting showing system health
• Experience managing external automation integrators or machine builders
• Familiarity with MES, SCADA, or factory data collection tools
• Comfortable operating in an evolving, ambiguous, and cross-functional startup environment

Bonus Points For

• Background in electromechanical product assembly or electronics manufacturing.
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems.
• Familiarity with datavis tools and visual factory concepts that use dashboards, IoT data, and visual tools to display real-time facility performance.
• Proficiency with Twincat, Python or similar scripting languages for automation/data acquisition.

Summary

QuEra Computing is seeking a Laser Systems Engineer to support the development and evaluation of laser subsystems used in neutral-atom quantum computing platforms. This role will serve as a key technical liaison for vendor collaboration and test and evaluation activities.

The engineer will work closely with QuEra’s Laser Systems and Quantum Systems teams to support subsystem testing, qualification, and scaling efforts. A core responsibility of this role is coordinating with vendors and partners to ensure that laser and photonic subsystems meet performance, reliability, and integration requirements as QuEra’s quantum computing systems scale.

This position will also serve as the on-site technical interface for test and evaluation activities associated with DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) and related programs. The role involves coordinating subsystem evaluation, test protocols, and milestone documentation.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on experience with advanced laser systems, strong experimental troubleshooting skills, and the ability to work effectively with external partners and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

~20% travel to partner facilities and vendor sites is required.

Responsibilities

Laser System Scaling and Architecture Development

• Work closley with our Laser System team on supporting the development and scaling of QuEra’s laser infrastructure as quantum systems grow in size and complexity.
• Explore approaches for increasing optical power, stability, and scalability across multi-wavelength laser systems together with the laser system and quantum hardware team.
• Evaluate potential architectures, technologies, and vendor solutions that support higher-power and more scalable laser subsystems.
• Contribute to technical discussions and experiments aimed at improving laser system performance, reliability, and manufacturability as systems transition from experimental prototypes toward larger-scale deployments.

Vendor Collaboration and Subsystem Qualification

• Serve as the technical point of contact for vendors developing laser and optical subsystems.
• Coordinate subsystem testing, qualification, and integration activities with external partners.
• Support vendor evaluation, component qualification, and performance verification for critical optical hardware.

QBI Testing and Evaluation Liaison

• Serve as the on-site technical interface for Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) test and evaluation activities.
• Coordinate with QuEra’s Laser Systems team to define subsystem test procedures, instrumentation requirements, and evaluation protocols.
• Support milestone documentation, technical reporting, and data collection for federal research programs.

Additional Responsibilities

• Collaborate with photonics, optics, and quantum systems teams to define subsystem interface requirements and integration workflows.
• Assist with development of test infrastructure for evaluating laser performance, stability, and reliability.
• Support procurement, documentation, and lifecycle management of laser and optical components.
• Contribute to development of operational procedures, safety practices, and technical documentation for laser systems.
• Participate in cross-site coordination with QuEra engineering teams and external research partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating or maintaining advanced laser systems.
• Experience working with free-space optics, fiber optics, and optomechanical assemblies.
• Strong skills in optical alignment, beam diagnostics, and troubleshooting complex optical systems.
• Familiarity with laser control electronics, feedback systems, or instrumentation used in optical experiments.
• Experience working in laboratory or prototype environments with uptime or experimental reliability requirements.
• Solid understanding of laser safety practices for high-power optical systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or a related field.
• Experience with AMO systems, cold-atom experiments, or photonics platforms for quantum technologies.
• Familiarity with laser stabilization techniques (familiarity with laser characterization and performance verification techniques).
• Experience collaborating with external vendors or research partners on photonic or optical subsystems.
• Prior experience working on DARPA, DOE, or other federally funded R&D programs and preparing milestone documentation.
• Strong technical communication and documentation skills.

QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Job Summary 

We are searching for an IT Infrastructure Engineer, on-site for a 6 month contract, to be responsible and accountable for the smooth running of our end-user devices and core applications, primarily for infrastructure located in the Kairos Power Albuquerque, NM site. You will champion the support, implementation, and maintenance of core infrastructure needs impacting the accelerated delivery of engineering and manufacturing services. The successful candidate will have previous IT systems/network engineering experience in an engineering company.  

Responsibilities 

• Install and maintain cloud and on-premises networking and compute resources using IaC where possible 
• Standardize design and management of cloud and on-premises networking and compute resources 
• Coordinate and collaborate with outside partners to deliver secure, functional business solutions 
• Build scalable, reliable, automated solutions that efficiently improve network and application performance 
• Design, deploy, and maintain hybrid infrastructure across multiple offices and datacenters 

Qualifications 

• 3+ years recent work experience as Network Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar role in a medium/enterprise scale organization; 7+ years overall IT experience 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar field; or an equivalent combination of education, professional certifications, and work experience is preferred 
• Recent experience with datacenter operations, physical and logical networking, and systems engineering 
• Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge and experience with cloud services technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to include design, implementation, and integration 
• Strong understanding of server-client technologies 
• Practical experience using configuration management tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef) as part of an Infrastructure as Code environment 
• High degree of proficiency in Windows, macOS, Linux, MDM, SSO, and at least one cloud IaaS platform 
• Prompt communication and excellent documentation skills 
• Resourceful / problem-solver mentality 
• Positive, enthusiastic, service-oriented attitude 
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and embrace constant changes and challenges 
• Working knowledge of modern information security practices 
• Prior work experience in a highly-regulated industry, especially within the government community 
• Prior work experience for an engineering or industrial/manufacturing company 
• Prior work experience in a fast-paced, high-growth startup 
• Ability to work with highly collaborative team
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Prioritizes and ensures safety of one self and others
• Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
• Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues

Physical Demands

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
• Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 50 pounds in all directions
• Communicating with others to exchange information

Environmental Conditions

• General office environment
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
• High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced

Safety and PPE

• Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
• Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions

Travel 

Some travel may be required up to 10%,

Additional Requirements 

• Occasionally requires overtime
• Occasionally requires working weekends
• Occasionally requires schedule flexibility
• Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines

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Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Regulatory Compliance Engineer III with a background in nuclear operations. In this role, you will collaborate with engineering operations, site integration, design, safety analysis, and licensing teams to develop facility operating solutions that align with Kairos Power’s Mission and comply with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations, license conditions and licensing commitments.  Additionally, you will be a key interface for communications between Kairos Power facility operations and the NRC staff providing oversight of the facility.

This role will be onsite in Oak Ridge, TN. 

Responsibilities

• Provide regulatory guidance and support to the operations team to develop facility operation strategies and implement programs and procedures and to ensure compliance with NRC regulations, license conditions and commitments is maintained.
• Serve as the point of contact for NRC personnel performing oversight of facility operations.
• Lead preparation for, performance of and responses to NRC inspections of facility operations.
• Maintain facility Technical Specifications, FSAR and other licensing basis documents.
• Support 10 CFR 50.59 and 10 CFR Part 21 screenings and evaluations.
• Identify potential regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Perform event reportability determinations and develop NRC event notifications in accordance with regulatory requirements and license conditions.
• Prepare correspondence with the NRC including periodic reports, responses to inspection findings, requests for information, licensee event reports, and operator licensing applications.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Nuclear , Mechanical, Electrical, Civil Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in nuclear facility operations, with NRC-licensed operator (SRO or RO license) experience preferred.
• Regulatory compliance experience is not required – we are willing to provide training, experience interacting directly with the NRC is preferred.
• Experience developing compliance-based programs and procedures - Procedure Professionals Association (PPA) certification preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Understanding of NRC regulations (10 CFR Part 50, 10 CFR Part 21, etc.) and regulatory guidance (regulatory guides, inspection procedures, etc.).
• Demonstrated technical writing ability.
• Knowledge of operational protocols and implementation of operating procedures.
• Demonstrated coordination skills including advisory, relationship and stakeholder management skills fit to handle a small / start-up environment.
• Demonstrated ability to earn the trust of team members and management.
• Eager to learn and develop skills in nuclear compliance, with a proactive and growth-oriented mindset.
• Entrepreneurial, adaptable and collaborative, and fully committed to Kairos Power’s mission.
• Strong team player with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, effective at all organizational levels.
• Proactive and accountable, driven to meet milestones while embracing challenges with respect and determination.
• Ability to work with highly collaborative team.
• Ability to problem solve quickly and efficiently.
• Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge.
• Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues.
• Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others.

Physical Demands

• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts and the like.
• Setting up and transferring temporary structures (e.g. scaffolding, ladders).
• Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces.
• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
• Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 30 pounds in all directions.
• Communicating with others to exchange information.

Environmental Conditions

• General office environment.
• Outdoor environment or elements such as precipitation and wind.
• Noisy environments.
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced.
• Manufacturing/Industrial Environments.
• Radiological/Controlled Environments.

Safety and PPE

• Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs.
• Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions.
• Color identification: detecting, distinguishing, recognizing and identifying colors.
• Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes, etc.

Travel

• Some travel may be required, up to 35%

Additional Requirements

• Requires schedule flexibility occasionally.
• Requires non-standard work-week hours occasionally,
• Requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines occasionally.

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