Avala AI
Lead Backend Software Engineer, Digital Assembly Line
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$165kDetected 1679 days ago
PythonDjangoFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLPostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearchAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDRESTMachine Learningscikit-learnPandasNumPySparkComputer VisionMLOpsElectrical EngineeringCommunication
About the role
- Supporting our AI-assisted human labeling and various machine learning workflows.
- The Digital Assembly Line is a central part of Avala.
- This includes data curation, processing, data discovery, annotation, and visualization.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the backend API stack you will develop, using software engineering best practices, and other cutting-edge methodologies
- Design and implement large-scale data processing pipelines that handle a diverse set of Avala-related data such as images, videos, text, audio, neural networks, and human annotations.
- Design and implement tools, tests, metrics, and dashboards to accelerate the development cycle of our model training.
- Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting.
- Collaborate with colleagues in design and code reviews.
- Develop means for deploying, scaling, and monitoring software systems.
- Own projects and always seeks ways to improve efficiency and operations.
- Contribute relevant, clean, concise quality documentation to Avala's knowledge base to support/increase organizational information sharing.
- At this intersection lies an incredible opportunity to redefine the future of labor while ensuring we build AI systems that are highly aligned with human values and intent.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Physics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or proof of exceptional skills in related fields or practical software engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of at least one programming language related to data engineering.
- Python is required.
- Experience with SQL, both relational and non-relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Redis)
- Experience working with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
- Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines to deploy fast and often
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2/S3/RDS/SQS.
- Experience with big data systems such as Spark, Hadoop/MapReduce
- Experience with scientific computing libraries such as numpy, pandas, or scikit-learn
- In-depth knowledge of container orchestrators and cluster management software.
- Experience with data stores and indexers like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis.
- Knowledge of various Python backend frameworks (e.g.Flask, Django, Tornado).
- Django is preferred.
- Experience with cloud computing such AWS EC2/S3/RDS is a plus.
Skills
- This also includes tools that help us automate the entire workflow of training, validation, and deploying customer models to production.
Compensation
- $100,000 - $165,000 USD + cash and very generous stock awards + benefits
- Your actual base salary and level will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
- Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Avala.
- 📈 WHAT WE OFFER:
- Along with competitive pay and generous stock, as a full-time Avala employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- An opportunity to change the world for the better, engineering solutions to solve problems that impact the most underserved communities in our world, while innovating at the bleeding edge of AI
Benefits
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible parental leave
- Flexible time off + paid holidays
- Generous Equity + 401(k) plan
- Knowledge of machine learning, computer vision, or neural networks is a plus but not required.
- Employees are eligible for equity and benefits in addition.
Company info
- Avala is a mission-driven company that operates as a two-sided marketplace at the intersection of the labor economy and the AI revolution.
- Our platform works towards this alignment by enabling the continuous integration of human feedback and human input at scale.
- Unlike traditional crowdsourcing or data annotation, Avala dynamically orchestrates digital assembly lines with the precision and unit economics of a Gigafactory.
- This allows us to rapidly scale to meet the demands of complex data labeling workflows and high-volume content moderation tasks to a global audience.
- We understand that the development of AI has the potential to bring about significant social and economic changes, and we're committed to ensuring that these changes are positive and inclusive.
- Avala is designed to empower individuals and communities on every corner of the Earth with a platform to participate in the curation and moderation of AI systems.
- 👨🏾🚀 FOUNDER:
- Founded in May 2020 by Emal Alwis, a six-year veteran of the Tesla Autopilot.
- Avala aims to solve some of our world's most pressing challenges by empowering communities with dignified digital work so that every human being can have access to an equitable wage from anywhere, at any time, with just a smartphone.
- 💻 THE ROLE:
- As a lead member of the Avala Engineering team, you will design and implement a diverse set of tools that orchestrate Avala's Digital Assembly Line.
Equal opportunity
- 👥 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCOMMODATIONS:
- Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
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