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Kiteworks · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer, AI Platforms

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

3+ years exp

Kiteworks is committed to building a world-class Engineering and Product organization, focusing on innovation and advanced tools. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of AI-powered tools that enhance the internal development lifecycle.

Computer Software

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and Build AI Systems: Translate product requirements and user problems into robust, scalable, and elegant technical designs. You will own the implementation of AI models and services from end to end

Prototype and Iterate Rapidly: Quickly build proofs-of-concept and prototypes to test hypotheses and gather feedback from our internal engineering and product users

Fine-Tune and Optimize Models: Work with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs). You will be responsible for fine-tuning open-source models on our internal codebase and data to create bespoke, high-performing solutions

Integrate and Deploy: Build and maintain the infrastructure for deploying and serving your models. You will be responsible for MLOps practices, ensuring our AI services are reliable, observable, and efficient

Partner with Product: Collaborate closely with the AI Product Manager to refine the roadmap, provide technical feasibility assessments, and ensure the engineering work is aligned with the highest-impact user problems

Stay on the Cutting Edge: Continuously research and experiment with the latest advancements in AI/ML, including new models, techniques (like RAG), and frameworks (like LangChain/LlamaIndex), and be a thought leader for how we can apply them internally

Qualification

AI/ML expertisePythonLarge Language ModelsMLOps practicesSoftware engineeringCloud platformsCollaborationCommunication

Required

An Expert in AI/ML: You have a deep understanding of machine learning principles and hands-on experience building and deploying AI models. You are proficient in Python and common ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow

LLM-Native: You have concrete, hands-on experience working with Large Language Models. You have used APIs from providers like OpenAI/Anthropic and, ideally, have experience fine-tuning and serving open-source models (e.g., Llama, Mistral)

A Pragmatic and Product-Minded Engineer: You are passionate about the technology, but you are driven by solving the user's problem. You care deeply about building tools that are not just technically impressive, but are also useful, reliable, and loved by their users

A Proven Builder: You have a strong software engineering foundation. You write clean, maintainable code, understand system design, and have experience shipping and maintaining services in a production environment

Strong Collaborator and Communicator: You can explain complex technical concepts to non-experts and enjoy working in a tight-knit, collaborative team with product management and your end-users

Experience: You have 3+ years of professional experience in a software engineering or machine learning role, with a portfolio of projects that demonstrates your ability to build and ship AI-powered applications

Preferred

Experience with MLOps tools and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Experience building developer tools or working in a developer productivity team

Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects

Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems

Benefits

Comprehensive Medical plan and 100% paid Dental and Vision coverage for employees and dependents.

100% paid Life/AD&D, STD and LTD coverage for employees

Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)

Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off

401k match program

Referral Bonuses

Stock equity -- every employee is granted stock options when they walk in the door

Company

Kiteworks

Kiteworks' mission is to empower organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive data.

Founded in 1999

San Mateo, California, US

501-1000 employees

http://www.kiteworks.com

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