Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Level 4

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world every day. Were deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast with precision and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

Youll play a critical role in scaling our ML Infrastructure optimizing training and inference systems and driving innovations that make Snapchats ranking and recommendation systems more efficient and impactful.

Were looking for a Software Engineer ML Infrastructure to join Snap Inc!

What youll do:

• Design and optimize infrastructure systems for machine learning workloads at scale and drive reliability and efficiency improvements across Snapchats ML Infrastructure

• Build and enhance feature generation and serving pipelines that power online inferencing and offline training data generation

• Develop high-performance inference systems to ensure fast and efficient AI model serving

• Build infrastructure to perform scalable ML model training evaluation and inference in the cloud

• Develop high-performance inference systems to ensure fast and efficient AI model serving

• Build comprehensive data management systems for scalable data collection labeling processing and evaluation

• Work closely with ML engineers to deploy cutting-edge models into production

• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness security and production ready quality code

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Strong programming skills in Python Java Scala or C

• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on system performance scalability and efficiency

• Good understanding of distributed systems and the infrastructure components of large-scale ML

• Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Spark Flink or Ray

• Ability to collaborate and work well with others

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work

• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience

• 2 years of post-Bachelors software development experience; or Masters degree in a technical field 1 year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field

• Experience building large scale production machine learning systems distributed systems or big data processing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters/PhD in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent industry experience

• Experience working with ML Training platforms or optimizing AI model inference

• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow PyTorch Caffe2 Spark ML scikit-learn or related frameworks

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please dont be shy and provide us some information.

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Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community so weve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave comprehensive medical coverage emotional and mental health support programs and compensation packages that let you share in Snaps long-term success!

Compensation

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