Job Description
Software Development Engineer II for AGI Foundations
Highly skilled Software Engineer sought to lead development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies for efficient inference in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and deploy inference solutions for state-of-the-art LLMs.
- Create solutions that facilitate the usage and building of artificial intelligence workflows and optimize them for cost and latency.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Build solutions on top of AWS that are easy to use for customers, scalable, fault-tolerant, and great to manage.
- Collaborate with other engineers to identify and solve well-defined problems in GenAI.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team.
- Perform on-call duty to ensure an exceptionally frictionless experience for customers.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
A Day in the Life:
Software Development Engineers in our team are autonomous contributors to their team software. They deliver high-quality features spanning the full software lifecycle, including working backwards from customers, design, implementation, testing, operations, and documentation.
About the Team:
Our team provides generative AI solutions that are the backend for novel products pioneering the next generation of AI applications. We are an open-minded team that looks for growing and improving not only the services we are managing, but also themselves.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
- Fundamental knowledge of Machine Learning algorithms and techniques.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience developing complex software and delivering successfully to customers.
- Experience of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
- Work experience with developing workflows that run or train machine learning models.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and critically about complex problems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team.
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