Senior Manager of Backend Engineering
About the Company
Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, LLM's and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, India and Estonia.
We have raised $100M in funding to date, with $60M coming from our most recent Series C, and are backed by industry leaders like Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Osage.
Clarifai is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce.
Your Impact
You will be essential in contributing to our core ML infrastructure, helping researchers and users to train and serve state of the art models to our customers!
The Opportunity
You are passionate about using your Backend engineering expertise and leadership to broaden the reach of our artificial intelligence technology and make it easily accessible to all skill levels. You will:
- Manage and mentor our global team of Backend engineers
- Work with research teams to design and build our training infrastructure
- Prototype new training frameworks and production-ize solutions at scale
- Design, optimize and test model integration infrastructure
- Work with data team to implement ETL/ELT pipeline
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing Machine learning infrastructure
- Manage a team while remaining hands on in the code base.
- Familiarity with setting up ML lifecycle systems
- Comfortable working with open source software
- Hands-on experience implementing production machine learning systems at scale
Great to Have
- Prior experience with with Tensorflow, PyTorch, Onnx, Nvidia Triton, kubeflow is a plus
- Experience with Golang, Relational DB
- Experience with async processing
The salary hiring range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000 and flexible depending on relevant experience.