{"uuid":"3a413786-ae5c-4079-b981-44a23eea8518","name":"Staff Software Engineer - Data Cloud Applied ML ","description":{"company":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About Rippling</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA, </span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/careers#:~:text=GLOBAL%20EMPLOYEES-,%241.4B%2B,-RAISED%20TO%20DATE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling has raised $1.4B+</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @</span><a href=\"http://www.Rippling.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling.com</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> addresses.</span></p>","role":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the role</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Data Cloud is Rippling’s unified data platform that makes operational data across HR, IT, and Finance queryable, governable, and actionable for analytics, reporting, and intelligent product workflows.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build the AI platforms within Data Cloud. At Rippling, you aren’t just building an AI feature; you are architecting the intelligence layer for the unified workforce system. This is a high-impact platform role focused on building state of the art systems for schema retrieval, query planning, and execution. You will partner closely with Rippling’s AI Platform team to define shared primitives for model tuning, inference, evaluation, and development of task specific agent harnesses, while owning Data Cloud-specific capabilities that improve quality, reliability, and scale.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will do</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Develop a state of the art schema retrieval system that operates over Rippling native and customer defined schema.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Implement and scale Data Cloud’s AI training pipelines for data retrieval, from designing data generation to managing training clusters.&nbsp;</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Design and build RL training environments for structured and unstructured data retrieval.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Develop agent harnesses enabling product teams to safely build AI features on Data Cloud.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Optimize model serving and inference for scale from GPU level performance to agentic user experiences.&nbsp;</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner with AI Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to drive architecture, standards, and rollout plans.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive execution on multi-team, ambiguous initiatives.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will need</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant ownership of distributed systems in production.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience post training and deploying LLMs in production environments.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience optimizing model inference at scale, particularly with LLMs and embedding models.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong backend engineering skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Java.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, container orchestration, observability, reliability engineering).</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to drive cross-functional technical strategy and execute through influence across teams.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additional Information</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. 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Data Cloud Applied ML ","description":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the role</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Data Cloud is Rippling’s unified data platform that makes operational data across HR, IT, and Finance queryable, governable, and actionable for analytics, reporting, and intelligent product workflows.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build the AI platforms within Data Cloud. At Rippling, you aren’t just building an AI feature; you are architecting the intelligence layer for the unified workforce system. This is a high-impact platform role focused on building state of the art systems for schema retrieval, query planning, and execution. You will partner closely with Rippling’s AI Platform team to define shared primitives for model tuning, inference, evaluation, and development of task specific agent harnesses, while owning Data Cloud-specific capabilities that improve quality, reliability, and scale.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will do</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Develop a state of the art schema retrieval system that operates over Rippling native and customer defined schema.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Implement and scale Data Cloud’s AI training pipelines for data retrieval, from designing data generation to managing training clusters.&nbsp;</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Design and build RL training environments for structured and unstructured data retrieval.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Develop agent harnesses enabling product teams to safely build AI features on Data Cloud.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Optimize model serving and inference for scale from GPU level performance to agentic user experiences.&nbsp;</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner with AI Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to drive architecture, standards, and rollout plans.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive execution on multi-team, ambiguous initiatives.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will need</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant ownership of distributed systems in production.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience post training and deploying LLMs in production environments.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience optimizing model inference at scale, particularly with LLMs and embedding models.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong backend engineering skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Java.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, container orchestration, observability, reliability engineering).</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.88571;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(26,28,31);font-size:10.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to drive cross-functional technical strategy and execute through influence across teams.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additional Information</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location </span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/pay-transparency\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">here</span></a><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. 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