
Staff Software/Cloud Engineer
- Lexington, KY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Operational Excellence: Guarantee the delivery of superior infrastructure and software, while aligning with the strategic business timelines.
- Guide Innovation: Champion the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, methodologies, and practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the AI organization.
- Collaborative Strategy: Forge strong partnerships with product managers, engineers, and company leadership to promote a culture of open communication and integrated team dynamics.
- At least 5 years of experience in a fast-paced technical, problem-solving environment as a software engineer, machine learning engineer, cloud solutions architect, or similar.
- A bachelor's degree is required, but an advanced degree (M.S. or PhD) in computer science, machine learning, AI, or a related field is preferred and may substitute for some years of experience.
- Demonstrable understanding of software engineering principles, including parallel and distributed computing, version control, reproducibility, and continuous integration.
- Demonstrated experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) to support data intensive applications, including AI/ML solutions, with considerations for scale, reliability and security.
- Strong technical expertise. You will need to either have or demonstrate the ability ability to quickly build technical expertise in the following
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC), especially Terraform
- REST API design and implementation
- Object oriented and functional programming in Python
- Multimodal data processing (e.g., combining text, image, and 3D data).
- Experience with AWS microservices including SageMaker, Service Catalog, IAM, Lambda, Cloudwatch, ECR, EKS, and Kinesis
- Containerization technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, from executives to product managers and a wide variety of stakeholders and contributors
- Experience in the manufacturing, supply chain, or similar industries is a plus.