Software Engineer, Granica
Data Compression, Granica Crunch
$120-200k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI infrastructure services
Job no longer available
AI infrastructure services
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$120-200k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make AI affordable, accessible, and safe to use.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in a mission-critical production environment
- A deep understanding of distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms
- Proven experience and programming proficiency in C++ and Go
- Experience with memory optimizations, performance optimizations, and multi-threaded development; experience with CPU/GPU architectures and performance tuning techniques
- Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing distributed systems
- Previous experience working with Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or similar distributed storage systems
- Excellent communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and deep respect for the power of teamwork
- An inherent curiosity and a passion for learning and problem-solving, with the ability to navigate ambiguous situations
Desirable
- Experience troubleshooting latency-critical software
- Basic understanding of data compression algorithms, including LZ-based methods; understanding of performance trade-offs with lossless and lossy compression techniques viewed favorably
What the job involves
- As a Data Compression Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing novel algorithms for data reduction
- You will work with both existing and emerging codecs, driving superior data reduction benchmarks across a broad spectrum of data types
- Your role will be instrumental in crafting and evolving architectures for ingestion, processing, and surfacing data for large-scale applications
- This role demands an innovative mindset, capable of solving complex data compression problems, and translating research ideas into highly efficient and scalable systems
Our take
Recent advances in AI have led to an upheaval across the entire tech sector, with companies racing to implement the new technology for a huge range of solutions. However, the costs of storing and accessing the vast amount of data needed to train an AI can be staggering, especially for enterprise-level applications.
Granica exists to solve this problem, providing a platform which increases the efficiency of data access and storage for machine learning purposes. Running quietly in the background it compresses data and removes duplicates while also ensuring privacy is preserved for sensitive data, freeing it for use in AI training. In doing so it reduces scanning costs by 90% and cuts cloud storage and transfer costs by up to 80%.
The company has only recently emerged from stealth following a major mid-2023 funding round. Despite this it has already established an impressive customer base including the likes of Google, Amazon, Nylas, Quantum Metric, and HERE Technologies. Granica will move to expand its enterprise customer base and is likely to see a high degree of success as major companies increasingly integrate AI into their core products.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2023
$45m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- 401k Plus Company Match : We help you save for your future. 100% match on the first 3% of contributions; 50% on next 2%
- Comprehensive Health Package : Focus on what matters most – your health – knowing that we have you covered. Fully paid health benefits for our team members, 75% for dependents
- Flexible Working Style : Discover increased productivity with a versatile work setup. We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid environment to balance remote work and in-person collaboration
- Unlimited PTO : Take the time you need to recharge, explore, and create meaningful experiences. We provide a generous open vacation policy, with a recommended 4 weeks per year
- Giving Back : Make a positive impact. We sponsor an annual philanthropic matching/contributions through our giving initiative called “Project Hope”
- Generous Perks : Fuel your day with our generous perks at our headquarters. Enjoy the convenience of free lunch, dinner, and an array of snacks when you work onsite
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Rahul Ponnala
(CEO)Is also a Board Member for FinOps Foundation and Fellow of the British Computer Society. Was previous Director (Solutions & Integrations Engineering) at Pure Storage.
Tarang Vaish
(CTO)Was Founding Engineer at Armorblox and Senior Staff Engineer for Cohesity. Before that was a Software Engineer at AMD.
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