Software Engineer, C3.ai
Type System
$120-150k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)
Enterprise AI application development platform
Open for applications
Enterprise AI application development platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$120-150k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
C3's mission is to help industry leaders leverage enterprise AI at an unprecedented scale to thrive in the digital era.
Role
Who you are
- Do you love simplifying the developer experience to increase development velocity? Do you strive to improve system performance to lower response times and infrastructure costs? Do you want to enable key revenue generating capabilities profitability?
- The ideal candidate will excel in systems programming, Java and Python language syntax and semantics, runtimes, compilers, memory management, multi-threading, profiling, performance, scalability, and observability
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of work experience in a fast-paced software company or equivalent
- Strong programming skills in Java and Python, language internals, and advanced language features Experience with Python 3.9+, Conda, JVM runtimes
- Thorough knowledge of data structures, algorithms, profiling/optimization, and
- Object-Oriented and Functional Programming
- Demonstrated experience optimizing performance of production systems
- Demonstrated understanding of throughput, latency, memory / cpu utilization
- Demonstrated ability to identify potential software architecture limitations
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of projects, including making key design decisions and tradeoffs
- Demonstrated ability to write clear and concise technical documents
- Experience in one or more of the following is a plus:
- Compiler
- Abstract syntax tree
- Metaprogramming
- Code generation
- Inter-language communication frameworks such as Rhino, JEP, Py4J
- Internal knowledge of conda/mamba/pip/npm
- Inter-process communication
- Creating domain-specific languages (DSL)
- Data serialization formats such as msgpack, pickle, Apache arrow,
- Protocol buffers
- End-to-end development of a Python package
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the team that develops the Type System core abstraction layer which underpins C3’s entire AI Platform and Applications
- You will closely collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and field engineers to develop and maintain Platform capabilities across the entire software lifecycle in a fast-paced agile environment
- You will be given opportunities to take ownership of components, collaborate to drive technical direction, and work on interesting, impactful projects
- Join us in building the next-generation AI/ML platform at petabyte level scale that powers some of the world’s largest companies in Energy, Financial Services, Health Care, Defense, and more
- Build the Type System core platform abstraction layer that enables Enterprise
- Data Scientists, Application Developers, and Data Integrators to rapidly build applications across different development platforms and tooling
- Own the language software development toolkits (SDKs) and execution engines for all supported languages (Java, JavaScript, Python)
- Improve the Type System platform ease of use, performance, and maintainability to increase Engineering and customer development velocity
- Improve Py4j, Py-client, JEP performance
- Triage and eliminate deadlocks and memory leaks
- Improve observability and instrumentation to optimize performance and infrastructure costs
- Develop automated performance and scalability tests and analysis
- Collaborate with product owners, Data Scientists, Application Developers, Pre-Sales, and Field Engineers to define and lead the development of longer-term C3 AI Platform capabilities
- Mentor junior team members
Our take
C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. C3.ai delivers a comprehensive and proven set of capabilities for rapidly developing, deploying, and operating large scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications for any enterprise value chain in any industry.
At the core of the C3 AI Suite is a powerful model-driven AI architecture that dramatically enhances the productivity of data scientists and application developers while future-proofing applications against underlying IT evolution. The C3 AI Suite is supposed to be 10 to 100x faster and more reliable than other solutions or DIY approaches, enabling robust delivery of production applications with less code and cost.
The C3 AI Suite seamlessly works with existing data storage, sources, tools, and infrastructure investment, while flexibly operating in a private, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environment. Having incorporated OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI software from Google and academia in its enterprise search product, investors are anticipating a huge surge in business for this innovative company.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2018
$100m
SERIES F
Mar 2017
$11m
SERIES E
Total funding: $221.8m
Company benefits
- Paid Parental Time Off: For US employees, mothers are eligible for up to a total of 10 to 12 weeks of paid parental time off with your newborn. All parents, including those adopting children, are eligible to take up to a total of 4 weeks of paid parental time off
- Hybrid Work: C3 AI employees may choose to work from home and office
- Advanced Degrees: Lifelong learning is a part of C3 AI. That’s why we will cover the total cost for employees to earn a master’s degree in computer science online. Those who complete the degree get three more big perks—a $25,000 cash bonus, a guaranteed 15% raise and a stock grant
- Continuous Education: C3 AI holds monthly employee training sessions as well as weekly lunch-and-learns. C3 AI also encourages further education by offering bonuses for the successful completion of select online courses
- Relax and recharge: In the United States, C3 AI offers 15 days of paid time off every year. As your tenure with the company grows so does your paid time off! C3 AI also offers 10 paid public holidays around which you can build your vacation leave
- Health Coverage: C3 AI offers competitive coverage. Our program includes medical, dental, and vision
- Equity: Restricted stock units are granted to all full-time C3 AI employees
- Free gym membership: To help keep you at the top of your game, C3 AI offers employees a free gym membership at our state-of-the-art fitness facility
- Catered lunches daily: C3 AI provides a fully stocked snack area and beverage refrigerator that contains everything from energy drinks to sodas and iced tea. Every day C3 AI provides a catered, gourmet lunch so that the team can relax together and share ideas
- Commuter check program: C3 AI offers tax saving commuter benefits program
- Travel assistance: Employees are provided global health insurance while traveling for business
- Ping-pong and pool tables: C3 AI has been known to host ping-pong and pool tournaments, allowing you to step away from the monitor. This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy coworkers while hitting a white ball at them
- Friday happy hour: Relax and unwind at the end of the week at C3’s weekly Friday Happy Hour. Enjoy good food, good drinks and great company at our office
- Flexible spending accounts: C3 AI offers both Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts. Both accounts enable you to pay for essential health and wellness before you pay taxes on it
- Life insurance: C3 AI offers short term / long term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Additional leave benefits: C3 AI offers paid time off for bereavement and jury leave
- Continental breakfast: It’s the most important meal of the day. C3 AI offers breakfast five days a week, including oatmeal, cereal, fruit, and delicious coffee
- 401K: C3 AI offers fund options via Charles Schwab for retirement savings
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Patricia House
(Vice Chairman)Previously Marketing Director at Oracle for 3 years and Executive Vice President at Frame Technology for 4 years
Thomas Siebel
(Chairman & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle for 6 years and CEO of Gain Technology for 2 years
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