Senior Software Engineer

A globally leading consumer device company headquartered in Cupertino, CA is looking for Senior Backend Software Engineer (Data and ML Innovation) to join their dynamic team!

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 Senior Software Engineer 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.

• 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.

• 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, Vector
  
  DB 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

• 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