Lead AI Engineer

Posted 2024-10-22

💎 Seniority level: Lead

🔍 Industry: Database technology

🏢 Company: Neon

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: Problem Solving

Experience in building AI tools or agents for software development.
Proven experience in backend software development, focusing on technologies such as databases.
Proficiency in any major backend programming language (preferably Go or Rust).
Previous experience in a tech or team leadership role.
Familiarity with infrastructure technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub CI/CD, and public cloud.
Excellent problem-solving abilities and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Build and lead the AI team to create agents that construct applications on the Neon platform.
Hire and manage a small team of engineers (1-2) focused on fast delivery.
Spend at least 50% of your time on coding tasks.
Take ownership of delivery from ideation through iteration to final delivery.
Establish best practices to build a high-quality development team.
Mentor software engineers and promote a collaborative environment.
Participate in on-call rotations to resolve critical issues.

Posted 2024-09-20

📍 Europe

🔍 AI, Privacy Enhancing Technologies

🏢 Company: Nillion

Experience in a technical role which involved developing, fine-tuning and/or deploying AI systems at scale.
Experience leading highly technical teams and/or projects (strong plus if AI-related).
In-depth understanding of recent transformer architectures / LLMs and their technical implementations.
Familiarity with and/or experience using more traditional ML models such as BERT, CNNs, random forests, etc.
Strong ability to think both technically about specific challenges, research questions, etc. and strategically about high-level direction, roadmap, etc.
Ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to internal/external stakeholders with various backgrounds.
Ability to effectively balance long-term research and short-term pragmatism.
Proficiency in Python and related AI/ML frameworks & technologies (i.e., PyTorch, HuggingFace, Docker, etc.).
MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related field.

You will design & execute a technical AI roadmap towards bridging the gap between AI and confidential computing, in close collaboration with our AI and cryptography team.
You will work closely with our cryptography team, getting up to speed with the technical nuances & implementing AI models accordingly.
You will adapt AI model architectures to work in a performant way under a confidential computing paradigm and technically implement these architectures in our AI toolkit.
You will have regular touchpoints with AI developers on the Nillion network and integrate their feedback in our AI roadmap.
You will work closely with our DevRel team and actively contribute to creating easy-to-use AI tools and suitable AI development workflows.

DockerPythonMachine LearningPyTorchCollaboration

Posted 2024-09-20

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