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Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inbox. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Today is Bastille Day, the national holiday of France and symbol of resistance to tyranny.

Sometimes bad leadership sparks revolution, even in the lower-stakes world of the break room. There’s no need for guillotines, but if your job has a bad boss, no upward mobility, and an unmaintained coffee maker, your best course of action is to start looking for a new, better job.

If that sounds like what you’re up against, here are this week’s roles.

The News

A Philadelphia-region manufacturing initiative from DVIRC aims to help smaller factories adopt automation while expanding technical career pathways in welding, robotics and AI-enabled production.

North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park is undergoing a leadership change this fall, with CEO Scott Levitan retiring after nine years in the role.

A Northern Virginia teenager created an AI platform that scores job opportunities based on flexibility, communication norms and other factors important to neurodivergent applicants.

Microsoft’s latest restructuring will eliminate nearly 400 positions at two Maryland studios, according to a state WARN filing. The affected Bethesda and ZeniMax teams are unionized, and employees have begun publicly sharing news of their departures.

Community Forge received a multiyear grant to continue an economic-mobility program serving Pittsburgh-area families through 2029. Participants receive stabilizing social services before moving into workforce training.

Philadelphia software engineer Andy Rothwell describes how career stability in municipal technology gave him room to pursue filmmaking, music videos and hands-on creative projects.

Partner Spotlight

Since launching in Louisiana this year, Technical.ly has covered a lot: individual success stories, workforce development programs and construction in sectors both old and new.

Across New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and rural parishes, what once might have appeared as a series of isolated wins is increasingly showing signs of statewide cohesion.

Check out this recap of some of our recent reporting to see how innovation is growing across the state and connect with Nexus Louisiana to get involved.

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The Jobs

Greater Philly

DC, Maryland + Virginia

Pittsburgh

Louisiana

Remote

The End

Bonne fête nationale!