Lead Software Engineer

Company: A P A International
Location: Hillsboro
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Contract - BizTek People, Inc. - United States Posted On 02/05/2021 Job Information Job Opening ID 7077 Language Skills English Location Hillsboro, Oregon Technology City Hillsboro State/Province Oregon 97124 Job Description Overview
As a Lead Software Engineer in AI/ML Platforms, you will be part of a fast pace engineering team developing services and platform that drive AI/ML at the organization. AI/ML is used in the company to accelerate its digital transformation and real-time data-based decision making capabilities. The focus is to leverage AI/ML technology to improve the user experience by using personalization, recommendation, smart search, digital demand sensing and scheduling techniques. These enhancements will be used to power the company's website, app, and other technologies
We are looking for--a Lead Software Engineer to design and implement core components of our data science services and platform and scale it to serve the organization globally. You will work collaboratively with the data science and analytics teams to ship scalable, performant and reliable solutions.-- Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:

• Advance and improve development practices with the engineering team through participation in architecture, technical design and code reviews
  
• Work with the user community to anticipate services and platform needs required to support algorithm development, model training, model management, data engineering and model serving
  
• Develop and/or implement services to enable data scientists and ML engineers at the company. These services will include model training, model serving and model management
  
• Evaluate new AI/ML Frameworks for possible long-term approaches
  
• Develop proof-of-concept (PoC) projects designed to evaluate the feasibility of new data science projects, vendor supplied machine learning and/or AI platforms
  
• Facilitate deep technical discussions with end-users and partners
  
• Optimize the capability of the IT infrastructure and services to deliver cost effective and sustained level of application availability.
  
• Develop complex tools and processes in the support of continuity management. Executes tests for system continuity.
  
• Design, test, and implement monitoring tools and processes.
  
• Write procedures to respond to results so system issues are brought to resolution.
  
• Collect metrics over a long term for trending.
  
• Performs complex work to install hardware and software taking proactive steps to assure success.
  
• Devises process and procedure for applying and maintaining security settings and user access based on technology platform.
  
• Recommends improvements as indicated based on analysis of current techniques and perceived imperfections.
  Qualifications
  
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals
    
  • 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
    
  • Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, Golang including object oriented design
    
  • Experience with Kubernetes and the broader container ecosystem
    
  • Experience with container-native machine learning ecosystem such as Kubeflow
    
  • Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, DynamoBD, EMR)
    
  • Experience using open source machine learning and statistical frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, R etc.
    
  • Experience with Big Data technologies (e. g. Spark)
    
  • Experience with Databricks ecosystem
    
  • Experience with SageMaker ecosystem
    
  • Experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow
    
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code practices and technologies like Terraform
    
  • Experience with source code control systems like GIT, Subversion.
    
  • Experience developing and using RESTful APIs (preferably micro services)
    
  • Knowledgeable about machine learning (concepts and application)
    
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills on both technical and non-technical topics
    

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