<>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.
Job Responsibilities:

<>Training data pipeline development. Convert raw data into format acceptable by training jobs on Google Cloud Platform 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

<> Minimum 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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Type: Contract
Duration: 3 months with extension
Work Location: Cupertino, CA (hybrid)
Pay range: $ 77.00 - $ 92.00 (DOE)

Backend Software Engineer (Data and ML Innovation)

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