Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems
Build systems for extracting, connecting, retrieving, and reasoning over knowledge from the web to enable AI agents to answer questions with precision. Requires experience with complex distributed backend systems and petabyte-scale data pipelines.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build systems that understand what is true about the world
- Extract, connect, retrieve, and reason over knowledge from the web and beyond
- Enable AI agents to answer questions with unprecedented precision and completeness
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining complex distributed backend systems
- Experience building data pipelines that process petabytes of documents, metadata, and unstructured data
- Comfortable optimizing systems for correctness, reliability, and scale
- Deep care about data quality and finding high-quality information
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building systems involving graph traversal, entity resolution, data quality, or truth discovery
Example Projects
- Build a system that can answer every factual question about every person in the world
- Design a new query language for searching, traversing, and reasoning over billions of facts
Skills
Distributed Systems, Backend Systems, Data Pipelines, Petabyte-Scale Data Processing, Graph Traversal, Entity Resolution, Data Quality, Truth Discovery, Query Languages, Knowledge Graphs
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