This Week in Jobs: Hit a high note in your career with these 24 open roles
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New year, new podcast. Introducing Technical.ly Builders Live, a monthly conversation about tech trends shaping local entrepreneurship hosted by Christopher Wink.
Heads up! You can expect more drones flying over NJ, Delaware, and PA this year, thanks partly to agriculture, the military, hobbyists, and more.
Here are four ways the new administration could impact the tech world in the first 100 days in office.
It's Data Privacy Day. Learn more about protecting your company's online information in the age of AI.
Speaking of AI — the new administration may have revoked Biden's AI order, but that doesn't mean the safety consortium will dissolve just yet.
The Jobs
Client Spotlight
For startup founders who are still in school, legal guidance can seem like a luxury, but it can be essential to putting a business on the right path. Law firm Ballard Spahr has resources to help.
Through the BASE (Ballard Academy for Student Entrepreneurs) program, the firm works with student entrepreneurs to help them develop their companies and gain leadership skills. Students in the program receive in-kind, pro bono legal assistance from a designated Ballard Spahr attorney team.
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DC + Baltimore
Crossover could use a Software Development Engineer, Trilogy.
Medifast is on the lookout for a Principal Product Manager – Data.
Join T. Rowe Price as a Senior Software Engineer (.Net/C#) or Director of Enterprise Architecture- Governance & Strategy.
Georgetown University is keeping an eye out for an HCM Systems Junior Analyst.
IRAP (International Refugee Assistance Project) is hiring an .
Pittsburgh
LTIMindtree is searching for a Specialist- Data Engineering.
Carnegie Mellon University could use an Embedded Software Engineer.
Robotics company Thoro.ai needs a Software Engineer- Perception.
Virtusa could use a QA Lead.
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