Software Engineer, Samaya
Search
3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Knowledge discovery platform
Open for applications
Knowledge discovery platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable domain experts to answer complex questions and uncover hidden insights from large sets of knowledge-intensive documents.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
- 5 years of experience working on infrastructure for distributed systems or search applications
- Expertise in building and optimizing search infrastructure, with strong programming skills in Python
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and familiarity with various data storage solutions (SQL, NoSQL, etc.)
- Proven experience in managing complex search pipelines and search infrastructure, including familiarity with indexing techniques such as BM25, understanding of search optimization metrics, and expertise in embeddings and vector databases
- A commitment to implementing secure data practices, with a proactive stance on adopting the latest technologies and methodologies in data engineering
- A track record of scaling data pipelines to manage large volumes of data seamlessly
- An independent, problem-solving approach, paired with a passion for data and a proactive attitude towards tackling challenges
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to develop scalable and secure backend infrastructures, optimizing data access and system performance
- Your role involves crafting frameworks for diverse data handling, enhancing search pipelines, and integrating advanced indexing and search optimization techniques
- Architect and scale web applications and services using Django, focusing on API design and integration
- Monitor, debug, and optimize applications in production to ensure peak performance and reliability
- Drive the engineering process improvements, collaborating closely with team members to deliver impactful product features
- Design and build a distributed system capable of handling fast data ingestion and near-instant retrieval, ensuring data security and integrity
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of our infrastructure, architecture, performance concerns, and software development lifecycle
- Enhance our data ingestion framework, demonstrating improvements in data collection efficiency and system scalability
- Contribute to improving the scalability and performance of our data infrastructure, setting new benchmarks for data quality and accessibility
- Actively engage in learning and mentoring within the team, becoming a go-to technical advisor
Our take
Samaya supplies a platform for search, summarisation and knowledge discovery to enable faster and highly informed decisions. The company leverages AI and advancements in Large Language Models to answer more complex questions than alternate discovery options.
Built for domain experts, Samaya boasts the ability to uncover insights even from large and knowledge-intensive document sets. This should have a wealth of applications and, as the product further develops, it will be interesting to see what industries and businesses it might attract.
Kirsty
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Company
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision and short-term disability
- Wealth: Support for your long-term financial wellbeing, with 401k (US) and enhanced pension (UK)
- Rest: The ability to rest and recharge as needed, with unlimited PTO
- Flexibility: A hybrid work environment (typically, team members spend a minimum of two days in the officer per week)
- Travel: Travel to other locations is encourage to foster team cohesion and maintain Samaya's unique culture
- Equipment: Equipment allowance to create your ideal work setup
Company values
- Human first: Humans are the heart of everything we do. We build tools that supercharge our users
- Many voices, one team: We're passionate about collaboration, and welcome diverse perspectives to get us to the best solutions
- Endless curiosity: We're constantly asking questions to deepen our understanding of the problem
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Maithra Raghu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Research Scientist on Google Brain at Google. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Fabio Petroni
(Co-Founder)Worked at Facebook AI for 4 years, ultimately as Research Tech Lead Manager. Was also a Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters and Data Engineer at KPMG.
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