Senior Backend Software Engineer, Cognite

• You are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale
• Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code.
• Our ideal candidate is a dependable backend engineer who also has at least some experience working with and around machine learning systems
• This position offers a unique chance to work on state-of-the-art language models and contribute to transformative research with the vision of saving lives with Industrial Data
• BS/MS degree in a relevant technical discipline such as Computer Science, and Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of software engineering experience in one or more well-established backend programming languages, such as Python, Kotlin, or C#
• Experience in building and deploying scalable cloud based backend services and APIs
• Familiar with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with Knowledge Graphs and Graph databases like Neo4j
• An excellent communicator with strong organizational, problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills
• Demonstrated technical leadership in a cross-functional distributed team environment
• Well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code writing skills

Desirable

• The rapid advances of Artificial intelligence (AI), especially around Generative AI, and in particular LLMs like OpenAI GPT family of models, have driven innovations starting to disrupt existing market spaces across industry. Many businesses are betting on AI as the next growth opportunity
• You will have a chance to work with a team of talented AI researchers and engineers to optimize and deploy the state-of-the-art Large Language Models to our flagship Generative AI products
• You will be part of a dynamic team of researchers and engineers who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of machine learning and natural language understanding in the Industrial domain
• You will help build applications that interact with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) that deliver cutting-edge and time-saving solutions to Industrial Clients all over the world
• Solve concrete industrial data problems by designing and implementing APIs and robust services on top of Cognite Data Fusion
• Design and implement highly scalable backend services powering Cognite’s Gen AI products
• Work closely with Product Management & TPMs to translate product requirements into software architectures
• Provide technical leadership to implement best practices for software development