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Software Engineer, Gov

Software Engineer building and deploying ChatGPT and OpenAI API features for public sector customers in high-stakes environments. Requires 5+ years experience, JavaScript/React/Python proficiency, infrastructure knowledge, and US citizenship.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for public sector customers.
  • Partner and directly embed with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance, to enable products to work within unique constraints of new environments.
  • Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions.
  • Work with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on latest models, developing solutions specific for public sector customers at both model & data layers.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations to create cutting-edge products.
  • Optimize applications for speed and scale.

Requirements

  • US Citizen.
  • 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies.
  • Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies.
  • Proficiency with some backend language (Python).
  • Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
  • Ability to move fast in an environment with loosely defined priorities or deadlines.
  • Interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements.

Skills

JavaScript, React, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, AI/ML

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