Engineer

DATA JOBSWhere does this new role fit into data teams? And why should you care about it?Trying to fit in — Photo by SHVETS productionFor a few years now the term “analytics engineer” has been used in the field of data science to describe a new data role. For example in an article published in January 2021 Prukalpa Sankar mentions the emergence of new roles like analytics engineers. Is it to say that the range of jobs related to data is not set yet? Definitely. Should we consider that analytics engineer is the next data…

A former Tesla engineer who the company accused of stealing Dojo supercomputer secrets is now in a bizarre situation where he can’t defend himself as Tesla moves the case to arbitration. Tesla has a clause in its employment contract that requires employees to settle workplace disputes by arbitration, an out-of-court method that relies on third-party decision-makers instead of courts. The automaker has been known to aggressively sue employees, especially over handling of confidential information, like trade…

Former Apple engineer Xiaolang Zhang has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft after being accused of stealing information surrounding Apple’s self-driving technology. Zhang would go on to work for XPeng Motors in China, which has publicly stated it has zero involvement with Apple or Zhang’s case. According to filings made with the Northern District Court of California Tuesday, Xiaolang Zhang has pleaded guilty to a case that dates back to July of 2018, when a federal grand jury in San Jose originally indicted him…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it helps to have a background in geotechnical engineering. As a geotechnical engineering educator myself, I use sandcastles in the classroom to explain how interactions of soil, water and air make it possible to rebuild landscapes after mining metals critical to…

Xiaolang Zhang, the ex-Apple employee who worked as an engineer on the company's heavily-guarded car project, has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft. Zhang was arrested back in July 2018 at San Jose airport while trying to fly to China.Zhang is facing up to a decade in prison, with a $250,000 fine. The theft specifically has to do with a 25-page document that contains schematics of a circuit board for Apple's fabled autonomous vehicle, reports CNBC.Big troubleZhang had been an Apple employee since 2015. He was first…

A former Apple Inc engineer on Monday pleaded guilty to trade secret theft - one of two people accused of stealing trade secrets from the iPhone maker's nascent self-driving car program. U.S. federal prosecutors have alleged that Xiaolang Zhang downloaded the plan for a circuit board for Apple's self-driving after disclosing his intentions to work for a Chinese self-driving car startup and booking a last-minute flight to China.He was arrested at the San Jose airport after he passed through a security checkpoint.Zhang…

A case concerning Apple’s driving trade secrets which started in 2018 has come to a close. Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee, pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing confidential information from Apple. In July 2018, a federal grand jury in San Jose indicted Zhang for obtaining a 25-page document containing detailed drawings of a circuit board designed to be used in Apple’s autonomous vehicle. In April that year, Zhang told Apple that he was resigning to be closer to his ill mother in China.…

Xiaolang Zhang has pled guilty to stealing trade secrets from Apple, where he worked on a self-driving car project from 2015 to 2018 (via CNBC). When he quit his job at Apple, he told his supervisor that he was going to work for Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology, a Chinese EV startup also known as Xpeng. During an investigation, which you can read more about here, Apple determined that he had transferred around 24GB of “highly problematic” data to his wife’s laptop via AirDrop, and had also taken circuit boards and…

Here we have enlisted the top 10 AI Unicorns to work for as an engineer in 2023. Artificial intelligence is presently the most disruptive technology. From identifying our faces to recommending the best products, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Investments in AI research and applications are set to hit $500 billion by 2024. Startup companies qualify for unicorn status with valuations in excess of $1B. Unicorns in the artificial intelligence space valued at $1B or more provide data on their funding history,…

James Brown loves building weird displays. Like animatronic skulls, or mechanical bit-flipping cellular automatons. Or, in this case, an entire computer inside a mock Lego brick. Not just any brick, either. I’m talking about the classic sloped Lego computers from our childhood spaceships, now brilliantly brought to life. They display fake radar scans, scrolling text, even an interactive homage to the Death Star trench run targeting computer that moves when you touch the exposed Lego studs. @verge James Brown…