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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.

Memorial Day weekend is over, which means summer has unofficially begun. The solstice may still be a few weeks away, but mentally, we’re in boardwalk mode.

It’s the time of year when out-of-office replies fill inboxes and weekends begin at 2 p.m. on a Friday. But the job market does not take the summer off. Calendars may be looser, but there are still great roles opening up, and this week’s roundup is a good place to start looking.

Here are 25 roles worth coming in from the sun for.

The News

The inaugural Technical.ly Partner Awards, presented at the Builders Conference, honored organizations that keep showing up, keep investing and keep helping a market tell a stronger story about itself.

HR tech company Phenom’s purchase of Plum adds another talent-assessment tool to its stack.

International union LIUNA is experimenting with AI for administrative work, benefits processing and political research, framing the tools as a way to stretch staff capacity rather than cut people from organized labor.

Pittsburgh startup Hellbender raised seed funding to scale edge-AI camera production, with plans to add engineers and train manufacturing workers for on-site roles through its hardware hiring plan.

Philadelphia election officials are treating poll-worker preparation as technical workforce readiness, using hands-on instruction, plain-language materials and troubleshooting protocols.

Here’s how one Pittsburgh builder is combining product work with tech ethics and lifelong learning across multiple tech roles.

Partner Spotlight

Morgan Lewis has a new free webinar series designed to deliver practical high-value insights across the startup and venture capital landscape — the Venture Capital Academy. 

Through curated learning tracks, the program aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how high-growth startups designed to be venture backed are built, financed and scaled, as well as how venture capital funds are formed, raised and managed.

The first webinar “Launching the High-Growth Startup” is on Tuesday, June 2 from 1-2 PM ET — learn more and register here.

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The Jobs

Greater Philly

DC, Maryland + Virginia

Pittsburgh

Louisiana

Remote

The End

A new season means a new start.