Senior Software Development Engineer, Unstructured.io
Data prepping for Large Language Models
Job no longer available
Data prepping for Large Language Models
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give organizations access to all of their data.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years of software development experience with a strong track record of delivering high-quality, impactful software solutions
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Python, software architecture, design patterns, and development best practices. Strong coding skills in one or more programming languages
- Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to solve complex software problems and simplify existing codebases
- Mentorship: Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers, with a focus on fostering growth and learning
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team and influence across teams when necessary
- Adaptability: Ability to work in a dynamic environment where business problems are well-defined, but technology implementations may require creative and innovative solutions
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) to join our team
- In this role, you will own team-level architecture and product solutions, mentor junior engineers, and tackle complex software challenges
- You will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying high-quality production code while also influencing related teams when necessary
- Team-Level Architecture: Own the architecture and design of key product solutions for your team. Influence related teams on projects that require cross-team collaboration
- Technical Implementation: Independently design and implement technology solutions for well-defined business problems. Receive guidance on architecture as needed
- Software Development: Engage in the full software development lifecycle, including coding, testing, deployment, and operations. Deliver high-quality, production-ready code that meets business and technical requirements
- Complex Problem Solving: Solve complex software problems that impact the team’s architecture, dependencies, and overall performance. Proactively simplify code and resolve architectural deficiencies
- Mentorship & Collaboration: Act as a mentor to less experienced engineers. Guide them through best practices in software development and architecture
- Parallel Work Management: Lead and manage the integration of parallel work streams within your team. Ensure smooth collaboration with other engineers to deliver cohesive and efficient solutions
- Risk Mitigation: Identify and mitigate long-term risks that could impact the team’s software architecture and business value
- Force Multiplication: Develop skills to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of the team, learning to act as a force multiplier
Our take
Unstructured.io is tackling a prevalent challenge in AI adoption - the difficulty of integrating complex, enterprise-sized data with Large Language Models (LLMs). The company's platform provides a solution by extracting and staging all data, even that which is in difficult-to-use formats, and making it compatible with LLMs.
Thus, the startup streamlines the time-consuming data preparation process, providing tools for otherwise complex tasks like removing unwanted elements, text concatenation, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It also tailors processing pipelines for specific document types, addressing a critical bottleneck in AI development workflows.
In enabling the seamless integration of LLMs with enterprise data, Unstructured's platform has the potential to unlock substantial productivity gains. As of March 2024, its open-source library has been download more than 6M times and by 2025, the total user base has grown significantly, with over 65,000 organizations now leveraging Unstructured tools. The company continues to develop its solution to the data-preparation bottleneck, a crucial component in meeting the evolving demands of enterprise-scale LLM deployments.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian S. Raymond
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Investment Banking at Harris Williams & Co. Prior to this they worked at The White House in the National Security Council and as an Intelligence Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency.
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