Job Title: Software Engineer III 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA or Burlingame, CA
Duration: 6 Month (Possible extension)
 
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 the Metaverse production-level infrastructure and systems that deploy models, version and construct lineage of our models and data, extract important data for debugging, and expand an org-wide Codec Avatar debugging tool.

 
Job Overview:

• We are looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer (SWE V) with a backend engineering skillset to tackle infrastructural changes to enable/support model deployment, version and construct lineage of our models and data, extract important data for debugging, and expand an org-wide Codec Avatar debugging tool.
• The ideal candidate should possess a robust background in software development, particularly in Hack, Python, and React/JS. This includes continuous integration and testing and backend ML systems. Our team focuses on transforming DL research codebases into product-ready states.
• The successful candidate will primarily code in Hack and Python. While experience with machine learning systems and managing large codebases is beneficial, it is not mandatory.

 
Must-Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in Hack and Python, especially pertaining to backend systems propagating information to a frontend, preferably in Big Tech or mid-to-large companies. Some experience in Javascript will help but is not as vital.
• Proficiency in continuous integration and testing
• 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

 
Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in maturing machine learning systems, such as building systems to load models/data and running inference, scaling up pipelines and tooling,
• Experience in creating and maintaining public projects (e.g., GitHub)

 
Degrees/Certifications:

• Master's degree or higher in computer science, systems engineering, backend engineering, or a related field

 
Key Responsibilities:

• Thrift Service backend work on Avatar Debugging tool
• Model deployment and integration to Platform
• Integration into new Codec Avatar Surfaces such as HSR (Horizon) for Product
• Model metadata extraction and propagation
• 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
• Collaborate with both research and maturation teams to push research to products

 
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Work includes:

1. Loading Model information into Ents and propagating to numerous frontend surfaces
2. Improving code quality
3. Increase test coverage with both unit and integration testing
4. Extending or refining thrift service python endpoints in a debugging tool
5. Improve how backend workflows are orchestrated
6. Other better engineering work like setting up dashboards and alerts, helping with oncall workloads etc

 
Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in Python and Hack, especially pertaining to backend systems propagating information to a frontend, preferably in Big Tech or mid-to-large companies. Some experience in React and Javascript will help, but it is not as vital.
• Proficiency in continuous integration and testing
• 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:

• Experience in maturing machine learning systems, such as building systems to load models/data and running inference, scaling up pipelines and tooling,
• Experience in creating and maintaining public projects (e.g., GitHub)

 
Years of Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience with Hack, Python, and source control, 3+ years’ on backend systems

 
Interview Process:

• Rounds: 3
• 1 screening interview
• 2 - 45 min coding interviews

  
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 80.00/hr.