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13 Jobs So Cool They’ll Make Your Friends Jealous

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Glassdoor Team | Author & Career Expert at Glassdoor | 1 Jul 2018

What’s better than a job you love? A job so cool that it would make all your friends jealous. If you’re searching for a job that will be the envy of your inner circle, look no further than these 13 openings, which offer up uber-cool positions from an engineer who helps develop the voice behind Amazon’s Alexa to a head coach of a football team at University. So, what are you waiting for? Apply today, and prepare to make your friends green when you snag the job.

Coastal Geomorphologist, Mott MacDonald

Overall Company Rating: 3.9 Brief Job Description: “This role will be working closely with a range of coastal project teams leading or contributing to project deliverables. Responsibilities of the role include the following: Project dependent, coastal protection and defense structures, coastal erosion and land stabilisation, dredging and reclamation, marine hydrodynamics, offshore and coastal renewables—i.e. windfarms, wave and tidal power, strategic coastal planning, and management.”

Software Development Engineer – Speech and Language Technology, Amazon

Overall Company Rating: 3.8 Brief Job Description: “The Speech and Language Technology team aims to create a delightful experience for Amazon’s customers by making Alexa understand any spoken request quickly and accurately. As a Software Engineer on our team you will design and build software components and end-to-end systems that let Alexa learn from data more quickly. You will collaborate closely with experts in machine learning and human language technology, and contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art in human language understanding systems. A background in speech and language technology is not required for this role.”

Junior Robotics Engineer, Reqiva Ltd.

Overall Company Rating: 3.7 Brief Job Description: “Currently in the research and development stages and require a Junior Robotics Engineer to help with the development of their new product. With experience in Robotics and C++ the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to work hand-in-hand with the owner and other senior team members to take this start up to the next level.”

Travel Consultant, Trailfinders

Overall Company Rating: 3.9 Brief Job Description: “Love to travel and want to work for the UK's No.1 Tour Operator? Trailfinders’ unrivalled and award-winning reputation for offering an efficient and friendly service to our clients is attributed entirely to the knowledge, enthusiasm and commitment of our staff.”

Software Architect, MBDA

Overall Company Rating: 3.7 Brief Job Description: “This is a fantastic opportunity within Europe’s leading missile and missile systems company for a software architect to join our software development team at either Stevenage or Bristol. You will be a technical leader working across a number of MBDA software domains bringing your skills and experience to deliver complex integrated weapon system software. The role involves building strong relationships with project and technical teams to ensure that the design solutions are aligned with those teams' objectives and the overall business strategy.”

Men's Football Head Coach, The University of Westminster Students' Union

Overall Company Rating: 5.0 Brief Job Description: “You will closely work with both your assistant coach and the club committee to build an engaging and productive programme for football at the University of Westminster. You will take a lead alongside the club committee to recruit, train and manage around 60 student footballers. This role will be challenging yet rewarding as you work with a diverse range of footballers from around the world to enhance their university experience.”

Graphic Designer, Smarkets

Overall Company Rating: 4.8 Brief Job Description: “We are looking for an enthusiastic designer with a portfolio that showcases a passion for experimentation and branding to join our small, yet growing, design team in our London headquarters. As part of the design team you will be at the forefront of curating our brand and be instrumental in how that is then presented to the rest of the world, ensuring that everyone knows about the world class products that we have on offer.”

Art Editor, Farfetch

Overall Company Rating: 3.8 Brief Job Description: “This role is responsible for art directing and editing the editorial content on Farfetch and for ensuring that layouts are of a high quality and on brand. The Art Editor will work on editorial photoshoots, as directed by the Creative Director, and will take ownership for the planning and production of the shoot. You will also ensure the brief is followed in terms of the mood, styling, hair & make up. The ideal candidate is someone with a creative eye who has a real passion and understanding of the luxury fashion industry.”

Product Designer, Facebook

Overall Company Rating: 4.5 Brief Job Description: “As a Product Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next great product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch. You will be expected to utilise your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills, and you will own the experience for a wide area of the Facebook product.”

Electronics Engineer, Siemens PLC

Overall Company Rating: 3.9 Brief Job Description: “We are currently looking for a skilled Electronics Engineer to join our innovative R&D team in Oxfordshire. The successful candidate will be supporting the continuous improvement of electronics products for superconducting magnets.”

International Business Analyst, Focus Reports Ltd.

Overall Company Rating: 4.0 Brief Job Description: “As a member of our team, you will join our projects in a variety of regions (from Asia to Latin America, Europe or the EMEA region). You will spend on average 3-6 months in a country to research, develop and compile market research, while helping your team to sell advertisement to key stakeholders of the pharmaceutical or oil & gas industry.”

Sous Chef, Young’s Brewery

Overall Company Rating: 3.4 Brief Job Description: “We are looking for an existing Sous Chef or Senior CDP looking for their next step, who considers themselves as a natural leader with a passion and flare for producing quality fresh food in an environment that makes people feel welcome.”

Social Media Associate, The Business of Fashion

Overall Company Rating: 4.2 Brief Job Description: “The Business of Fashion is seeking an enthusiastic Social Media Associate with strong writing skills. The main purpose of this role is to create engaging copy and content that reflects a clear brand voice and identity. The successful candidate will also support the social media and wider brand marketing team with the creation and execution of the overall social media strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of an innovative, fast-moving company.” Apply for more jobs on Glassdoor:

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