Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Primer, a company dedicated to making the world safer through trusted AI, as a Senior Python Engineer. You will significantly contribute to our tooling, coding standards, and codebase, leading the development and updating of data-driven product features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to overcome technical challenges in natural language processing and machine learning. We foster an environment that encourages growth and innovation, empowering engineers to shape architectural principles and adopt new frameworks. The role involves working with massive datasets and integrating features like event and topic detection. This position offers remote work options or locations in San Francisco, CA; Pasadena, CA; or Washington, DC.

Requirements

• Expertise in Python and another Object-Oriented language
• Expertise in Flask, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Experience leading commercial software technical features end-to-end in an agile environment
• Strong modeling and design patterns that plan for extensibility and resiliency as business needs change
• Experience with data ingestion, processing and data retrieval systems at scale
• Experience with working with real-time and distributed systems
• 5+ years of shipping production grade software

Responsibilities

• Develop new application features that leverage our extensive ingest pipelines and model library to help users search, analyze, and understand large volumes of unstructured data
• Collaborate with teams on the Delta product to design an information retrieval architecture to analyze and conduct search on documents and graphs
• Work with machine learning engineers and data scientists to extend the platform’s capabilities to new models and algorithms while maintaining performance metrics
• Work on massive datasets, integrating with features such as event and topic detection, relation extraction, summarization, entity recognition, document classification, multilingual NLP and knowledge base generation

Preferred Qualifications

• Data-driven engineering; using metrics to drive decisions and inform performance and cost tradeoffs
• Work experience in NLP/AI/ML focused companies

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Fertility benefits through Carrot
• Mental health coverage on demand with Headspace Care+
• Gympass+ Membership via Wellhub
• One Medical Membership
• 401(k)
• Remote work stipends
• Monthly internet allowance
• Flexible vacation policy
• Wellness Days
• 100% paid leave for parents of growing families