Software Engineer, Weights & Biases
Weave
$177-245k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
MLOps platform for developers
Open for applications
MLOps platform for developers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$177-245k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Weights & Biases's mission is to build the best tools for machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a strong interest in GenAI, love building and shipping quickly, and enjoy talking to users, this is the perfect role for you
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field
- 4 years or more of prior experience in Software Engineering
- Deep knowledge of Python and/or TypeScript
- Experience (personal or professional) building GenAI-powered applications
- Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity and adapt rapidly to a changing business environment. Previous startup experience a plus
- Preferred: Experience managing large-scale online production services or OLAP databases
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a software engineer to help build Weave
- You’ll play a foundational role on this small but growing team, developing a new generation of tools for the most consequential emerging market today
- You’ll ship core functionality, gather feedback directly from early users, and use your own intuition to continually improve the product
- Implement robust and ergonomic open-source client APIs
- Design and implement integrations with popular LLM tools such as LlamaIndex, LangSmith, and Instructor
- Scale and improve our backend performance to support low latency and high volume production use cases
- Build polished and delightful features such as multi-modal evaluations, LLM playgrounds, and dataset editing/drill-down capabilities
- Actively meet with and iterate based on customer feedback, understanding their workflows and addressing key bugs
Our take
Weights & Biases (W&B) builds development tools for machine learning, helping businesses to create and use deep learning models. In order for deep learning to work, it’s necessary for companies to be able to monitor how the models are behaving as they are trained. With over 200,000 customers, W&B has differentiated itself from its competitors such as IBM Watson Studio and Valohai by focusing exclusively on machine learning practitioners and not on sales aspects of the technology, and by its competitive pricing.
The company has also launched a product to help different parties collaborate on machine learning models. This is geared at researchers, reducing the need for them to rerun their training examples repeatedly. Over time, this will help to move machine learning technology forward. What's more, W&B's technology is free for personal and academic use, which has fueled adoption enormously, and it is now being used by research institutions such as UC Berkeley and enterpise companies like Samsung and Salesforce.
The dependence on machine learning is growing as more and more companies begin to use artificial intelligence to handle business tasks, so demand for this sort of software is rising. Having raised substantial funding, W&B is moving to futher develop its product, grow its team and increase its marketing reach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$135m
SERIES C
Total funding: $250m
Company benefits
- 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time
- 🩺 100% Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and Family Coverage
- 🏠 Remote first culture with in-office flexibility in San Francisco
- 💵 $500 home office budget with new high-powered laptop
- 🥇 Truly competitive salary and equity
- 🚼 12 weeks of Parental leave
- 📈 401(k)
Company values
- We're building a culture where people love coming to work to build cool things and collaborate with other smart people
- It’s important to us that everyone feels comfortable being themselves and being honest with each other, and all of us take responsibility for making our customers successful
- We love to work with people who are driven, kind and proactive
- We care about diversity and if you are part of an underrepresented minority, we especially encourage you to apply to work here
- We are contributing to responsible AI with tools for transparency and reproducibility in model development and deployment
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Chris Van Pelt
(CISO)Earned a BA in Computer Science at Hope College. Previously Lead Engineer and Founder of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
Lukas Biewald
(CEO)Earned a BS in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Scientist and Founder, CEO of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
Shawn Lewis
(CTO)Earned his BS in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously Engineer at Google and Founder at Beep Networks.
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