Title: Software Engineer III
Location: Pittsburgh, PA or Burlingame, CA
Duration: 6 Month Duration (Possible extension)

Summary:
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.

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

Must Have 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

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

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Loading Model information into Ents and propagating to numerous frontend surfaces
• Improving code quality
• Increase test coverage with both unit and integration testing
• Extending or refining thrift service python endpoints in a debugging tool
• Improve how backend workflows are orchestrated
• Other better engineer

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: $ 70.00/hr.