SOUTH FAYETTE TWP.
SCHOOL DISTRICT
is seeking:
MIDDLE SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER
(50% OF SCHOOL DAY)
Position available at the start of the 2023-2024 School Year
Complete job description and directions on how to apply are available at:
www.southfayette.org
Applications must be received by 4:00 PM June 23, 2023
TRANSIT POLICE OFFICER
Pittsburgh Regional Transit (Port Authority of Allegheny County Police Department) is seeking full-time Transit Police Officers. A Transit Police Officer is responsible for ensuring the safety of Port Authority customers, staff, and property throughout the areas it serves. Officers must enforce all local, state, and federal laws on and around our transit system.
Our Police Department offers potential career opportunities with specialty units that include, investigations, K-9, video forensics and crash reconstruction. Leadership roles such as Sergeant and Lieutenant are promoted from within the department.
Police Officer applicant testing is one three-hour session, the written police officer exam (POST) and the fitness exam will be administered on the same day. Testing dates: Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 8:00 AM, and Thursday, July 20, 2023, at 12:00 PM.
As of August 1, 2023, the following Transit Police Officer wage progression is as follows: year one – $57,484 (75% of base rate); year two – $65,148 (85% of base rate); year three – $76,645 (base rate). A Master Patrol wage premium of 3% above base rate is available after nine years as a Transit Police Officer.
Job requirements include:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Valid PA Driver’s License.
- Current Act 120 certification or candidate must successfully pass the Act 120 certification test prior to employment.
- Successful completion of administered written police officer exam.
- Successful completion of administered fitness exam.
- Basic clerical skills.
- Ability to observe and analyze situations objectively and respond appropriately.
- Ability to handle emotionally charged situations.
- Ability to act quickly and calmly in emergency situations.
- Professional and effective communication skills to include:
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner.
- Ability to understand and execute oral and written instructions.
- Successfully complete/maintain the following required training:
- Yearly firearm qualifications with a department-authorized firearm.
- Maintain Basic First Aid and CPR/AED Certification.
- Yearly mandatory in-service training.
- Job-specific training, as required.
- Ability to work various shifts, pass days, weekends/holidays, as required.
- This is a Safety-Sensitive position subject to all testing provisions under the Drug and Alcohol Policy, including random drug and alcohol testing. The person selected for this position may be required to be tested prior to being awarded the job.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision. Transit Police Officers are eligible for a defined contribution plan which consists of two components: a 401(a) Money Purchase Plan and a 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan. Tuition Reimbursement, and comprehensive training opportunities and incentives are also available.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume https://careers.portauthority.org/
or directly to:
Amy Giammanco
Pittsburgh Regional Transit –
Employment Department
345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527
agiammanco@rideprt.org
EOE
TRANSIT DATA INTERN
($16 PER HOUR)
Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Transit Data Intern to, during the academic year, conduct data analysis projects assisting Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) in determining how to best deploy transit resources across the system.
Essential Functions:
- Assist the Transit Analysis team through applying data manipulation, analysis and visualization in one or more of the following projects:
- Analyze ridership patterns to inform service decisions.
- Assess effectiveness of service changes, including monitoring ridership per trip, on time performance, and ridership by geographic area.
- Develop interactive maps and dashboards that allow end users to explore transit data and discover insights.
- Assist with internal and external reporting and data requests as needed.
- Institute back-end data management processes such as automated Extract-Transform-Load operations and developing functions for commonly used data preparation techniques.
Job requirements include:
- At minimum, candidates must be in their Junior or Senior year of study in a public policy, data analysis, computer science or related degree program. Recent graduates of same programs will also be considered.
- Data manipulation skills, including ability to retrieve data, clean it, join to other datasets, and export in a clean format.
- Strong data visualization skills that communicate a clear message to the end user.
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to identify and solve problems independently.
- Interest and familiarity with public transit (even just as a rider) and the desire to make public services better for everyone.
- Ability to work independently.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Planning and organization.
Preferred attributes:
- Candidate enrolled in or recently graduated from a master’s degree program in public policy, data analysis, computer science or related field.
- Knowledge of a coding language such as R or Python.
- Knowledge of a dashboarding tool such as Tableau or PowerBI.
- Knowledge of a spatial analysis tool such as ArcGIS.
- Ability to write basic SQL queries.
Interested candidates should forward a cover letter and resume to:
Glenn Huetter
Employment Department
345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527
GHuetter@RidePRT.org
EOE
ASSOCIATE, TECHNICAL
PROGRAM MANAGER
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for Associate, Technical Program Manager in Pittsburgh, PA to perform following duties: Drive product features through creative cycle: ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, & iteration; Develop deep understanding of user segments & advocate for unmatched user exp. through market research experimentation, user testing, & data analysis; Perform qualitative/quantitative research to discover feature ideas & collaborate w/engineers, designers, researchers, & learning scientists to guide feature development; Strategically evolve/grow existing products & services to deliver better user exp.; Hit key performance indicators; Build product roadmaps that drive user success & work closely w/various cross functional partners to execute it; Define success metrics & drive implementation in close collaboration w/designers, engineers, researchers, & other cross-functional teams. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Information Technology, Information Technology Management or related field. Must have knowledge of: (1) Software projects; (2) Client-service architecture; (3) Programming Languages (Java, Python or C); (4) Front-end or back-end engineering; (5) Algorithms; (6) Data Structures. Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. 799 & title “Associate, Technical Program Manager” in subject line.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER,
MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for Software Engineer, Mobile Applications in Pittsburgh, PA to perform following duties: (i) under supervision, triage & resolve violations of mobile application distribution service guidelines; (ii) monitor mobile application platform release notes to find backward compatibility issues or new opportunities for features or improvements; (iii) implement user interfaces that adapt to variety of mobile devices; (iv) manage mobile application release process; (v) analyze software application reqs. to determine feasibility of design within time/cost constraints; (vi) design test plans, scenarios, scripts, &/or procedures & run A/B testing on new/changed application features, & analyze data structures; (vii) identify, analyze, & document software application defects, changes, & implementations; (viii) write & present summaries of data analysis of features to team; (ix) submit code to be reviewed by superiors, & review coding of peers & contractors; & (x) submit finished projects to quality assurance team. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science or related field. Must have knowledge of (i) Algorithms; (ii) Data Structure; (iii) Programming languages (Python & Java); (iv) Linear Algebra; (v) Probability; & (vi) PSPACE. Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. SEMobileApp6/23 & title “Software Engineer, Mobile Applications” in subject line.
AI RESEARCH ENGINEER
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for AI Research Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to perform following duties: Develop highly scalable computer technology based on state-of-the art areas of computer science, such as machine learning & neural network methodologies; Combine broad & deep knowledge of relevant software & technology research domains along w/ability to synthesize wide range of technical reqs. to make significant contributions to Duolingo’s products across platforms; Adapt existing tech., such as machine learning & neural network algorithms & architectures, to best, exploit modern parallel environments (e.g., distributed dusters, multicore SMP, & GPU) & develop highly scalable algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning & neural network methodologies; Collaborate w/other AI Research Engs. & AI Research Scientists to facilitate research that enables learning data semantics (images, video, text, audio, & other modalities); Design & implement core software components for platform development projects. Reqs: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science or related technical field. Must have 1 yr exp. with: (1) AI research, resulting in published AI papers; (2) Python; (3) Machine Learning; (4) PyTorch; (5) Distributed Clusters & GPU; (6) Data Mining; & (7) Pattern recognition. Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. AIResEng6/23 & title “AI Research Engineer” in subject line.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for Software Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to perform software engineering tasks on Duolingo’s language education software. Duties: (i) under supervision, research, design, & develop software in conjunction w/language educ. product design; (ii) collaborate on full-stack software projs.; (iii) analyze & plan implementation of specifications from design team to change/add features of mobile application; (iv) work in team to determine deadlines & time frames; (v) apply principles & techniques of comp. sci., engineering, & math analysis to analyze software application requirements to determine feasibility of design within time/cost constraints; (vi) design test plans, scenarios, scripts, &/or procedures & run A/B testing on new/changed features of application, & use statistical analysis/techniques to analyze test data; (vii) identify, analyze, & document software application defects, changes, & implementations; (viii) write & present summaries of statistical analysis of features to team; (ix) submit code to be reviewed by superiors, & review coding of peers & contractors; & (x) submit finished projects to quality assurance team. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science or related field. Must have knowledge of (i) Java or Python; (ii) full-stack engineering; & (iii) statistical modeling. Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. SoftwareEng6/23 & title “Software Engineer” in subject line.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER,
DATA ENGINEERING
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Pittsburgh, PA to perform following duties: (i) Under supervision develop end-to-end delivery of data engineering products, from architecture & design to implementation to maintenance & growth; (ii) Collaborate across internal business teams & cross-functional stakeholders to design & develop high-quality software & architectures for data eng.; (iii) Partner w/other engineers to build scalable data eng. processing systems; (iv) Support technical strategy, by breaking problems into deliverable components, & working closely w/engineering teams; (v) Develop &/or implement next-generation data-driven models & algorithms; (vi) Architect & deploy robust data eng. infrastructure that can support training, evaluation, deployment, & monitoring; (vii) Build & deploy data eng. infrastructure on cloud services: (viii) Write & present summaries of data eng. analysis of features to relevant stakeholders; (ix) Submit code to be reviewed by superiors, & review coding of peers & contractors; & (x) Submit finished projects to quality assurance team. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Language Technology, Computer Science or Computer Science related field. Must have knowledge of (i) Statistical techniques or theory; (ii) Probability distributions; (iii) Algorithms; (iv) Data Analysis & (v) Programming languages (Python or Java). Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. SEDataEng6/23 & title “Software Engineer, Data Engineering” in subject line.
SOFTWARE
ENGINEER, CLOUD OPERATIONS
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Operations in Pittsburgh, PA to perform following duties:
Perform capacity, availability, & issue resolution & organizational change processes for cloud environments; Partner w/software engs., infrastructure engs., & enterprise architects to plan, implement, & maintain software solutions & systems architecture technologies; Contribute in operational proj. design reviews, infrastructure implementations & automation efforts; Lead transformation & implementation of DevOps processes, frameworks & automation initiatives; Provide direction & architecture guidance on best practices to deploy solutions in AWS environment; Contribute to incident root cause analysis. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or related field. Must have 18 months exp. in: (1) Deploying, maintaining, & scaling microservices & infrastructure in cloud solutions; (2) Delivering cost-effective performance & reliability improvements; (3) Reducing organizational overhead associated w/infrastructure & code changes.
Must have knowledge of: (1) Systems design & engineering; (2) Cloud Technologies; (3) Data storage & compute technologies (RDS, S3, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes); (4) DevOps tools & processes; (5) CI/CD pipelines; (6) Java & Python. Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. SrSECloud6/23 & title “Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Operations” in subject line.
AI RESEARCH ENGINEER I, DEEP LEARNING
Duolingo, Inc. has multiple openings for AI Research Engineer I, Deep Learning in Pittsburgh, PA to perform following duties: Identify problems, prototype solutions, evaluate return on investment, & implement best solution at scale; Develop new applications of deep learning that improve Duolingo’s products; Design & build the infrastructure, tools, & libraries needed to train, experiment, debug, & launch machine learning models at scale; Provide expert guidance on topics involving AI & data; Perform research w/respect to the optimization of machine learning software & hardwareperformance; Write tests to validate system performance & compliance.
Reqs: Master’s degree in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science or related technical field. Must have 1 yr exp. in AI Research, resulting in published AI papers. Must have knowledge of: (1) Programming Languages (C++ & Python); (2) Algorithms & Data Structures; (3) Deep Learning; (4) PyTorch; (5) Machine Learning; (6) Problem Framing for AI. Email resume to: jobs@duolingo.com with Job No. AIResEngDLearn6/23 & title “AI Research Engineer I, Deep Learning” in subject line.
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