AIML - Sr Backend Software Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

Job Description

Position: AIML - Sr Backend Software Engineer, Data and ML Innovation

Location: Cupertino CA - Hybrid

Interview Mode: Video

Duration: 4+ months

Summary

Do you want to play a part in the next revolution in Foundation Models? Contribute to model hillclimbing for Client Intelligence features that leverage Client Foundation Models, and work with the people who built the intelligent products that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking or typing!

The vision for the AI/ML FM Data organization is to improve Foundation Models by leveraging data from a variety of sources:

crawl, license, vendor and internal crowd-sourcing. As a Sr Software Engineering on the team, you will drive backend innovations, identify key opportunity areas where data can play a crucial role and experiment with various data augmentation strategies to improve model training efficiency and performance.

As a Sr Backend Software engineer, you will be responsible for the following areas.

Training data pipeline development. Convert raw data into format acceptable by training jobs on GCP and AWS.

Leverage internal and open-sourced training modules.

Large scale inferences: Leverage internal and open-sourced inference stack to generate inferences with fine-tuned

LLMs on massive amounts of data, for pre-train and post-training

Data processing and data filtering: Have the ability to efficiently process and filter very large amounts of data, often times messy .

Scalable web services backend and APIs to support data access and data inspection tools

Minium Qualifications

BS in Computer Science or Equivalent

10+ years of programming experience in Python. Extensive experiences in concurrency and parallelism, functional programming, decorators. Familiarity in other programming languages (Java/GoLang/Rust/Swift)

Proficient in REST API, Redis, VectorDB or other large scale data storage systems

Solid foundational programming skills (algorithms, data structures, OOP, etc)

Experience designing, writing, reviewing, testing and delivering software for applications and systems at scale

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with streaming-processing (Kafka). Familiarity with a variety of build tools (Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Gradle)

Experience providing architecture and design guidance

A good communicator with clear and concise, active listening and empathy skills.

Are self-motivated and curious. Strive to continually learn on the job.

Have demonstrated creative and critical thinking with an innate drive to improve how things work. Have a high tolerance for ambiguity

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Full-time