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Vanilla is seeking a Software Engineer - AI Applications with a strong background in software development, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. You will be utilizing existing Large Language Models to build applied AI applications focused on producing high accuracy rates. Your software engineering skills will come into play here as you’ll take ownership in constructing services to ingest structured results. If you’re a proactive problem-solver who lives to disrupt archaic processes with cutting-edge technology, this is the job for you. As a Software Engineer, you will work collaboratively with engineering and subject matter experts to find innovative and disruptive uses of AI to streamline (or replace) workflows.
Job Responsibility:
Machine learning and AI: You are passionate and knowledgeable about the current and future state of AI
You will be utilizing existing Large Language Models to build applied AI applications focused on producing high accuracy rates
You will take ownership in constructing services to ingest results
You will work with product, and engineering teams and build models/services that can ingest data, extract key information and surface insights
You can build tooling to support model training, evaluation, inference serving, monitoring and alerting
You want to use the latest ML frameworks and open source tools to develop new model training pipelines
Hands On Coding: You have direct experience with software engineering and are familiar with modern languages like Python, Javascript, Go, Rust
You have experience building microservices and understand the tradeoffs of the approach
Data handling: You can identify, extract, transform, and load data from disparate sources into a centralized system. You are able to normalize, cleanse, and validate this data
Database management: You are able to design and implement schemas, optimize queries, and manage database performance
Collaboration: You must be able to collaborate with engineers, subject matter experts, product managers, and designers to ensure the success of projects
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
4+ years relevant work experience
Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Python or Javascript
Experience integrating with backend services, and APIs
Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar for both chat and API interfaces
Understanding of machine learning and AI technologies, including the ability to design, train, and implement machine learning models and use natural language processing techniques for automation
Experience with tuning AI performance and scalability of AI infrastructure
Experience with API design and accessing data from external sources
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems
ability to think abstractly
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future
Nice to have:
Bonus experience with AI observability, monitoring, and signaling with tools such as LangChain or LangGraph, or experience with RAG for tuning LLMs
What we offer:
Flexible paid time off policy and 10 company-wide paid holidays
Parental leave, 4 weeks for all full-time employees and up to 12 weeks for birthing parents
Medical, dental, and vision benefits coverage for employees and their families
401K eligibility after one month of employment
Free estate planning documents
Budget for learning & development and home office setup
Paid parking or transit for hybrid and in office employees