We are looking for a Data Scientist to support AI and machine learning initiatives that advance patient care, research, and operational decision-making in Palo Alto, California. This is a Contract position focused on turning healthcare data into practical, high-impact solutions through model development, validation, and deployment. The role works closely with clinical, research, and operational partners to translate complex problems into scalable analytical approaches while maintaining strong standards for quality, fairness, and performance.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Create, implement, and support AI- and ML-driven workflows that improve clinical, research, and administrative processes.<br>• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define analytical needs and deliver data science solutions aligned with healthcare use cases.<br>• Assess and refine tools, platforms, and methods used to manage model development, deployment, and ongoing lifecycle activities.<br>• Train, test, and validate internally developed or externally sourced machine learning models using hospital data and established quality controls.<br>• Perform bias reviews and model performance checks to help ensure responsible and reliable use of predictive algorithms.<br>• Analyze large-scale healthcare datasets using Python, R, SQL, and cloud-based or distributed computing environments.<br>• Work alongside clinicians and researchers to adapt analytical methods for real-world use in care delivery and related settings.
<p>Colleen McAuliffe at Robert Half is looking for a detail-oriented real estate operations specialist to support a growing North American portfolio from California. This position focuses on lease administration, portfolio oversight, and coordination with internal partners and external landlords to keep real estate activities organized, compliant, and efficient. The role also contributes to process design and reporting improvements that strengthen portfolio governance and support future global growth.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Oversee lease activity from execution through renewal or closeout, tracking key terms, dates, obligations, and required actions across the portfolio.</p><p>• Maintain complete and accurate lease records, abstracts, and supporting files so documentation remains current and audit-ready.</p><p>• Manage lease management system data and reporting, resolving discrepancies and ensuring reliable portfolio information for business use.</p><p>• Coordinate communications with landlords and internal teams regarding notices, certificates, amendments, and other lease-related documentation.</p><p>• Partner with Legal, Finance, Workplace Operations, and business stakeholders to support lease reviews, approvals, and operational decisions.</p><p>• Assist with negotiations and transaction support by organizing materials, aligning stakeholders, and following through on action items.</p><p>• Identify opportunities to improve space usage, portfolio performance, and operational consistency across multiple locations.</p><p>• Support office moves, expansions, consolidations, subleases, and other real estate projects while monitoring compliance with lease terms.</p><p>• Develop standardized procedures, templates, and controls that improve administration, reporting, and scalability across regions.</p><p>• Prepare summaries, analyses, and presentations for leadership and contribute to broader corporate real estate initiatives.</p>
<p>We are seeking a detail-oriented Accounting Analyst for a 4 to 6 month contract engagement. This role is ideal for a professional with a solid accounting foundation and the ability to support light financial analysis, reporting, and trend review. The Accounting Analyst will assist with day-to-day accounting operations while helping identify patterns, variances, and opportunities for improved reporting accuracy and business insight.</p><p><br></p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities</li><li>Prepare and maintain journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules</li><li>Assist with general ledger analysis and account variance review</li><li>Review financial data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency</li><li>Help track and analyze basic financial trends, spending patterns, and operational results</li><li>Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports for finance and business leaders</li><li>Assist with budget-to-actual reporting and fluctuation analysis</li><li>Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, and accrual-related activities as needed</li><li>Identify discrepancies and work with internal stakeholders to resolve issues promptly</li><li>Maintain organized documentation and ensure compliance with internal controls and accounting policies</li><li>Contribute to process improvement efforts related to reporting and analysis</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Our client is seeking a Data Scientist II – Generative AI to join a cutting-edge team focused on building scalable, production-ready AI solutions that transform business workflows and deliver measurable impact across global operations. This role is ideal for professionals passionate about leveraging Generative AI technologies, creating intelligent agents, and driving innovation at scale.</p><p><br></p><p>You will design and implement GenAI-powered agents that streamline internal processes, enhance productivity, and support business development initiatives. Responsibilities include developing robust prompt engineering frameworks, building RAG pipelines, and converting prototypes into production-ready solutions. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and business teams to ensure solutions meet diverse client needs and are optimized for global deployment.</p><p><br></p><p>Key projects include extending the company’s GPT platform, creating AI agents that improve efficiencies for RFP development, onboarding materials, and SOW requirements. Success in this role means quickly ramping up on backlog projects, delivering high-priority initiatives, and staying ahead of emerging GenAI frameworks to continuously advance internal AI capabilities.</p>
<p>We are looking for a Supply Chain Analyst to join a fast-growing wholesale distribution organization in the east bay. This contract opportunity with potential for a permanent role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning data into actionable inventory and purchasing decisions while partnering across planning, logistics, and brand teams. The person in this role will help maintain strong product availability, improve forecast accuracy, and support efficient inventory flow in a dynamic environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Oversee inventory planning, demand forecasting, and purchasing activities to maintain service expectations and support target stock positions.</p><p>• Update and manage key planning data within supply chain systems, including lead times, service targets, inventory settings, and product life cycle information.</p><p>• Analyze historical demand, supplier performance, and changing lead times to recommend appropriate adjustments to reorder points and inventory levels.</p><p>• Work closely with Brand Management to reflect promotional activity, category direction, and market conditions in forecast assumptions and replenishment plans.</p><p>• Partner with logistics and operations teams to support timely, cost-conscious movement of goods across the supply chain.</p><p>• Provide reporting and analytical input that helps Brand Management shape and execute product and inventory strategies.</p><p>• Assist with additional projects and cross-functional assignments related to planning, procurement, and supply chain performance as needed.</p>
<p>obert Half is seeking a Software Engineer II – AI Engineer to analyze, design, program, debug, test, implement, and support the privacy, security, and governance controls that protect generative AI technologies. This role safeguards GenAI-enabled applications, including LLM-powered workflows, RAG pipelines, plugins, skills, and autonomous agents, by embedding data protection, security guardrails, and responsible AI governance across the development lifecycle. </p><p> </p><p>This role supports SDLC documentation across all phases, with a focus on data privacy, security guardrails, governance, compliance, and risk management. It also works with users to define requirements and support applications in production. </p><p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong> </p><ul><li>Design and implement data privacy controls, including PII/PHI detection, redaction, and data minimization. </li><li>Build security guardrails, including prompt-injection defense, jailbreak prevention, and output filtering. </li><li>Establish governance for plugins, skills, and agents, including registration, approval, and lifecycle management. </li><li>Review and vet third-party plugins, skills, and agent tools for security, privacy, and compliance risks. </li><li>Define and enforce access controls, authentication, and least-privilege permissions for AI components. </li><li>Implement guardrails for autonomous agents, including action scoping, tool-use restrictions, and human-in-the-loop approval. </li><li>Apply data classification, retention, and residency policies across GenAI data flows. </li><li>Monitor AI systems for policy violations, data leakage, and anomalous plugin, skill, or agent behavior. </li><li>Maintain audit trails and logging for plugin, skill, and agent activity. </li><li>Support compliance with regulations and frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA, and the EU AI Act. </li><li>Provide Level II production support for security, privacy, and governance incidents. </li><li>Support incident response, including containment, escalation, and remediation. </li></ul>
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join a growing team in California in a contract capacity with the potential for a permanent position. This position supports reporting, pricing evaluation, and core accounting activities while helping leaders make informed business decisions. The role works closely with operations, supply chain, and commercial partners to improve visibility into performance, profitability, and cost trends.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Perform financial reviews related to product costs, profitability, and operating variances to support day-to-day decision-making.<br>• Partner with commercial and operational teams to evaluate margins across customers, products, and sales channels and highlight meaningful trends.<br>• Contribute to pricing assessments for new and existing business by analyzing cost inputs, customer-specific terms, and expected returns.<br>• Build and update scenario-based analyses to measure the impact of volume shifts, cost changes, and pricing adjustments.<br>• Prepare routine financial and operational reports that summarize key metrics, performance indicators, and business results for management.<br>• Assist with month-end activities by supporting reconciliations, accrual preparation, and investigation of differences between supporting records and the general ledger.<br>• Help maintain reliable financial data by reviewing accuracy, completeness, and consistency across reporting sources.<br>• Support enhancements to reporting tools, reconciliation methods, and analytical workflows to improve efficiency and usability.<br>• Document finance-related procedures and provide support for audit requests and data extraction or reconciliation activities as needed.
<p>About the Opportunity</p><p>A growing technology company is seeking a Financial Analyst to join its Corporate Finance team. This position offers an opportunity to partner with cross-functional business leaders while supporting financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and eager to learn in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.</p><p>This role will initially focus on supporting key finance transformation initiatives, including system migrations and improving financial reporting processes through automation and data analysis.</p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Support revenue forecasting, recurring revenue metrics, bookings analysis, cash flow projections, and long-range financial planning.</li><li>Maintain and enhance financial models, reporting tools, and large datasets to improve forecasting accuracy and business insights.</li><li>Assist with monthly and quarterly close activities, including reconciliations, reporting, and documentation.</li><li>Analyze financial and operational data to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for process improvement.</li><li>Partner with Sales Operations, Finance, Accounting, and other business teams to understand sales activity, pipeline performance, and key business drivers.</li><li>Prepare financial reports, dashboards, and presentation materials for leadership meetings and business reviews.</li><li>Support finance system transformation projects, including data validation, testing, and process improvements.</li><li>Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting and analysis using modern AI and productivity tools.</li><li>Document financial processes and communicate findings clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.</li><li>Perform ad hoc financial analysis and special projects as assigned.</li></ul><p><br></p>
We are looking for a detail-oriented Financial Analyst to support portfolio reporting and data management for a team based in Menlo Park, California. This is a Contract position with part-time hours of approximately 20 per week, offering an opportunity to contribute to financial analysis, reporting preparation, and portfolio data accuracy in a hybrid work environment. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working with investment-related financial information, building organized reporting materials, and collaborating with senior stakeholders.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Maintain accurate portfolio company information across financial tracking platforms and generate reports as needed to support decision-making.<br>• Prepare presentation materials, summaries, and supporting documents for recurring portfolio review discussions.<br>• Organize investor-facing financial records and ensure documentation is stored in a consistent and accessible format.<br>• Gather, validate, and structure financial and operational data received from portfolio companies for analysis and reporting.<br>• Update and manage relevant records in Salesforce to keep internal information current and reliable.<br>• Provide ad hoc support for reporting, document preparation, and other analytical tasks tied to portfolio oversight.
<p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p>We are seeking a detail-oriented <strong>Master Data Management (MDM) Analyst</strong> to support data integrity, reporting, pricing management, and supply chain operations for a leading healthcare organization in Palo Alto, California. This <strong>hybrid</strong> contract role is responsible for maintaining accurate master data, supporting ERP systems, managing pricing and vendor information, and delivering reporting and analytics that drive informed business decisions.</p><p><br></p><p>Working closely with Supply Chain, IT, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and external vendors, this position plays a key role in supporting inventory management, supply chain automation, vendor management, recall processes, and cost-reduction initiatives.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Serve as the primary point of contact for master data management activities, issue resolution, and data-related inquiries.</li><li>Create, update, maintain, and audit master data in accordance with established business rules and governance standards.</li><li>Ensure all master data requests are properly reviewed, approved, and documented.</li><li>Analyze, cleanse, and validate data to improve data quality and system accuracy.</li><li>Generate scheduled and ad hoc reports to support operational and strategic decision-making.</li><li>Collaborate with IT teams to resolve system issues, implement enhancements, and improve reporting functionality.</li><li>Maintain pricing files and pricing agreements to ensure alignment with contract terms.</li><li>Conduct pricing analysis and benchmarking to identify savings opportunities.</li><li>Support vendor management, recall management, inventory processes, and non-labor expense reduction initiatives.</li><li>Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and recommend process improvements that strengthen data governance and operational efficiency.</li><li>Educate end users on master data processes, standards, and best practices.</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Our client is seeking a motivated Entry-Level Financial Analyst to join their growing finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent college graduate or an early-career professional looking to launch a career in corporate finance. The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and eager to learn financial planning, reporting, and business analysis in a collaborative environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Assist with preparing weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports.</li><li>Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and business insights.</li><li>Support budgeting and forecasting activities.</li><li>Maintain and update financial models and spreadsheets.</li><li>Reconcile financial data and investigate discrepancies.</li><li>Prepare ad hoc reports and analyses for leadership.</li><li>Assist with month-end and year-end close activities.</li><li>Compile and analyze operational and financial KPIs.</li><li>Partner with accounting and operations teams to improve reporting accuracy.</li><li>Help identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.</li><li>Ensure financial data is accurate, organized, and timely.</li></ul><p><br></p>
We are looking for an entry-level Financial Analyst to join our team in California on a contract basis with the potential for a permanent position. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with budgets, analyzing financial performance, and turning data into clear insights for leadership. The position will support planning activities, cost monitoring, and reporting needs while partnering with stakeholders to help drive informed business decisions.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Support the full budgeting cycle, including planning, updates, and ongoing financial tracking across workforce and operating expenses.<br>• Compare budgeted figures against actual results, investigate variances, and highlight key drivers affecting financial performance.<br>• Monitor spending trends and cost assumptions, then provide practical recommendations to balance business needs with financial targets.<br>• Prepare clear financial summaries and reporting materials for executive audiences, presenting complex information in a clear format.<br>• Assist with headcount planning by tracking staffing changes, analyzing workforce costs, and maintaining accurate reporting.<br>• Use spreadsheets and financial data tools to organize information, build reports, and contribute to forecasting activities when needed.<br>• Partner with internal teams to gather inputs, validate numbers, and improve the accuracy and timeliness of financial analysis.