Software Engineer V
Pittsburgh, PA or Burlingame, CA
8+ Months
 
Team / Role Overview:

• The XRCIA team aims at delivering the future of communication – photorealistic telepresence via Codec Avatars. Our aspiration is to connect people separated by distance as if they were in the same room together.
• We achieve this by researching, developing and productionizing state-of-the-art methods in cross sections of computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning for human understanding and telepresence.
• As a Research Engineer or Software Engineer on our team, the individual will have the opportunity to build innovative machine learning infrastructure that will shape the stability and robustness of cutting-edge technologies that will power Metaverse.

 
Job Overview

• We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer (SWE V) with a research engineering skillset to spearhead code improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate should possess a robust background in software development, particularly in Python, Deep Learning (DL) theoretical knowledge, experience training big DL models, and code optimization. This includes continuous integration and testing, experience with GPU coding, PyTorch, and backend ML systems.
• Our team focuses on transforming DL research codebases into product-ready states.
• The successful candidate will primarily code in Python. While experience with backend systems and managing large codebases is beneficial, it is not mandatory.

 
Key Responsibilities

• Codebase migrations
• Enhancing code quality
• Increasing test coverage through unit and integration testing
• Code refactoring
• Optimizing backend workflow orchestration
• Additional engineering tasks such as setting up dashboards and alerts, and assisting with on-call workloads
• Interact with scalable and distributed training algorithms and efficient data loading for large scale deep learning
• Collaborate with both research and maturation teams to push research to products
• Most of the tasks detailed would be performed on DL pipelines

 
Required Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in Python, especially with large codebases, preferably in Big Tech or mid-to-large companies
• Experience in training big deep learning models with PyTorch
• Proficiency in continuous integration and testing
• Knowledge of code optimization techniques
• Familiarity with GPU coding and backend ML systems (a plus)
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with the ability to independently overcome technical roadblocks
• Experience working collaboratively and communicate effectively across functional teams
• Capability to work independently and within a team

 
Preferred Skills:

1. Experience in maturing machine learning systems, such as defining evaluation metrics, building evaluation systems, scaling up pipelines and tooling
2. Experience in creating and maintaining public projects (e.g., GitHub) Code Optimization (CPU and GPU), GPU Coding
3. Years of Experience 6+ years’ experience with Python and source control, 3+ years’ on PyTorch and DL

 
Must-Have Skills:

1. 6+ years of experience in Python, especially with large codebases, preferably in Big Tech or mid-to-large companies
2. Experience in training big deep learning models with PyTorch
3. Proficiency in continuous integration and testing
4. Knowledge of code optimization techniques
5. Familiarity with GPU coding and backend ML systems (a plus)
6. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with the ability to independently overcome technical roadblocks
7. Experience working collaboratively and communicate effectively across functional teams
8. Capability to work independently and within a team

 
Nice-to-Have Skills:

1. Experience in maturing machine learning systems, such as defining evaluation metrics, building evaluation systems, scaling up pipelines and tooling
2. Experience in creating and maintaining public projects (e.g., GitHub)
3. Code Optimization (CPU and GPU), GPU Coding

 
Degrees/Certifications:

• Master's degree or higher in computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, or a related field

 
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Work includes

1. Codebase migrations
2. Improving code quality
3. Increase test coverage with both unit and integration testing
4. Code refactoring
5. Improve how backend workflows are orchestrated
6. Other better engineering work like setting up dashboards and alerts, helping with oncall workloads etc
7. Most of these tasks would be performed on DL pipelines

 
About the Team XR Tech: XR Codec Interactions and Avatars Group
 
Interview Process: Rounds: 3

• 1 screening interview
• 2 - 45 min coding interviews

 

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