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Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search)

200k – 300kRedwood City, CAML EngineeringOnsite5+ YOE
Summary

Builds and optimizes ML backend systems for recommendation, ranking, and search in a fast-growing AI consumer app. Requires 5+ years experience, CS bachelor's, ML frameworks like PyTorch/TensorFlow, cloud infra, and modern typed languages.

About the role

Requirements

  • B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Experience building/consuming RESTful and gRPC based web-services
  • Experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
  • Familiar with one of the popular ML Frameworks like Pytorch, Tensorflow
  • Experience writing highly performant service in a modern typed language
  • Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

Desired Experience

  • Experience with shipping intelligent features, end-to-end, and from idea to production
  • Experience with understanding, designing or implementing a full pipeline from data ingestion to model training.
  • Experience with production AI/ML systems and services including optimizing GPU/TPU deployments
  • Experience working with vector databases or other feature storage
Skills
PyTorchTensorFlowgRPCRESTful APIsGCPAWSAzureCI/CDKubernetesVector Databases
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