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Senior Software Engineer - Model Customization & Optimization

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3 days ago
Bengaluru, India or Hyderābād, IndiaSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve distributed services supporting large-scale training and reinforcement learning workloads.
  • Improve researcher and engineer iteration loops and apply performance optimization techniques.
  • Own or collaborate on architecture for complex products and solutions while ensuring scalability, resiliency, security, privacy, compliance, and cost requirements.
  • Write extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code and guide less experienced engineers.
  • Partner with stakeholders on project plans, release plans, estimation, capacity planning, rollback planning, and production readiness.
  • Operate live services through rotational on-call support, incident mitigation, postmortems, troubleshooting improvements, and observability and monitoring enhancements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 8+ years of related software engineering experience; or a master's degree and 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in .NET, Java, Azure Functions, Docker, and Python.
  • Experience delivering large-scale, distributed, cloud-based software services.
  • Passion for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively and communicate complex concepts.
  • Preferred: experience shipping and maintaining Microsoft Azure cloud services, especially machine learning model-serving services.
  • Preferred: experience with AI agents and tool use, AI/ML internals, Agile development practices, and CI/CD.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and other applicable security-screening requirements.
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