Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure Engineering ReViz Seattle, WA

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Seattle
Posted on: November 8, 2024

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer, AI InfrastructureSeattle, WAHybrid: Individuals in this role are expected to live in the Greater Seattle area and are encouraged to spend 1-3 days per week on-site in our Seattle offices.Compensation Range: $140,230 - $213,150Who We AreWe're software engineers redefining how researchers and engineers use state of the art GPU clusters. We own and actively develop Beaker, a GPU-first job orchestration system used by Ai2 researchers to manage and execute frontier research workloads, such as large-scale, distributed pretraining and online reinforcement learning. We're also responsible for Ai2's on-premise GPU servers from the bare-metal up, operating a high performance storage cluster and designing and developing critical systems that teams across the institute rely on for pushing forward cutting-edge, open science.Who You AreYou're a talented, self-directed software engineer and operator who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You're someone who can quickly and effortlessly produce code to solve a problem, but are also capable of articulating a bigger vision and driving consensus. You're ready to work across the entire stack, from bare metal to the application layer - though we don't expect you to be an expert in everything. You lead by example and lift up the team; setting an ambitious bar in a balanced, healthy fashion.You'll be responsible for developing and designing systems that make it effortless for Ai2's researchers and engineers to run large scale, state of the art GPU workloads. You'll work closely with those stakeholders to understand the friction in existing solutions and opportunities for new capabilities. Your work will contribute to the evolution of a platform purpose built for AI research, directly supporting the institute's frontier AI efforts, such as online reinforcement learning, distributed pre-training on large clusters, and PB-scale dataset curation and synthesis.As a senior individual contributor you'll be expected to work independently on problems both big and small. You'll wrangle large, ambiguous projects, but also won't hesitate to contribute smaller, incremental changes to push forward things you're not directly responsible for. You'll be expected to act as a leader and mentor, promoting a healthy culture and accelerating the growth of your peers.Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing critical systems that solve emerging requirements of cutting-edge research projects while partnering closely with stakeholders
• Delivering software changes, from inception to release
• Contributing to Beaker, our custom job orchestrator written in Go
• Operating a fleet of state of the art GPU servers and supporting infrastructure (storage, networking, etc)
• Reviewing code and design documents; mentoring team members
• Participating in our weekly on-call cycle during operating hours (9 AM to 5 PM, PT)
• Contributing to long term vision for revolutionizing GPU-first computation
• Participating in planning exercises; proactively contributing to their improvement
• Fostering a healthy, high-performance engineering cultureWhat You'll Need:
  • 6+ years developing highly available software in a professional setting
  • Proficiency in Golang, Python, SQL, shell scripting, and Linux server administration
  • A strong understanding of running containerized workloads (Docker)
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS)
  • Excellent writing and collaboration skillsBonus Qualifications:
    • Experience operating GPU clusters or developing distributed ML workloads
    • Deep systems administration expertise
    • Familiarity with Kubernetes
    • Prior experience serving AI models (inference)Physical Demands and Work Environment:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
      • Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
      • The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
      • The ability to observe details at close range.A Little More About Ai2:Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.In addition to Ai2's core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:
        • We are a learning organization- because everything Ai2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day.
        • We value diversity -We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience.
        • We value inclusion -We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization.
        • We emphasize a healthy work/life balance- we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized.
        • We are collaborative and transparent- we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose.
        • We are in Seattle- and our office is on the water!
        • We are friendly- chances are you will like every one of the 200+ (and growing) people who work here.Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or disability.This employer participates in E-Verify.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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