Software Engineer - Genai

Software Engineer - GenAI

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Description

As a Software Engineer in Ads engineering team, you will play a meaningful role in crafting and developing the backend systems for applications powered by machine learning and generative AI. You will focus on building robust, scalable, and user-facing features that bring the power of AI to our customers. You will work with a team of engineers, researchers, and product managers to tackle meaningful problems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient backend services for our AI-powered products and features.
• Integrate and utilize modern machine learning and generative AI models to build application features.
• Partner with applied scientists and ML engineers to understand model capabilities and effectively integrate them into production applications.
• Focus on the application layer, building features and APIs that make powerful AI technologies accessible to users.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to a high standard of code quality.
• Work multi-functionally with teams across the organization, including product, design, and operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 to 8 years of professional experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in backend development with languages such as Python or Java.
• Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance, and reliable distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience building applications that consume and are powered by machine learning models, services, and APIs.
• Familiarity with the concepts of Generative AI and experience integrating AI/ML models into larger systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work with ambiguity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, or Kafka.
• A portfolio of projects demonstrating your expertise in building applications with intelligent features.