Principal Machine Learning Engineer (AI/ML) - Splore
** of Company: What is the Company About?**
Splore, supported by Temasek and Menyala, is a visionary startup dedicated to revolutionizing how individuals access and engage with information. In a digital landscape flooded with data, the emphasis has shifted from acquiring information to swiftly and effectively pinpointing pertinent insights. Utilizing an AI Answer Engine, Splore delivers direct, context-sensitive answers, revolutionizing how information is unearthed and absorbed.
Splore offers businesses the opportunity to unlock the considerable value of their data assets by employing the company's exclusive Knowledge Index. This enables businesses to expedite decision-making processes with a foundation of deeper insights. Simultaneously, consumers benefit from swift, pertinent, and dependable answers, eliminating the frustration of sifting through irrelevant search outcomes.
Engineered by skilled professionals in machine learning, distributed systems, and consumer applications, Splore.com merges web data with proprietary sources to generate customized and diverse information outputs.
Key Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will lead the ML/AI team as a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, overseeing the entire ML lifecycle from feature development to operationalization and deployment. Serve as the primary ML authority for the CEO and Product Managers, steering advancements in core ML capabilities and improving engineering processes for widespread adoption in target markets. Leading a group of 4-6 AI software engineers, the role involves cultivating a culture that encompasses both AI innovation and ML product implementation. Additionally, this position entails fostering the professional growth, guidance, and mentorship of team members.
Role Specifics:
ML System Blueprint and Development: Conceptualize, design, and supervise the implementation of ML systems placing strong emphasis on data pipelines, MLOps for training/inferencing, and measuring service/model efficiency.
AI Research: Remain current with the latest AI evolutions, focus particularly on generative AI, recognize technologies and models suitable for Splore use scenarios, implement stringent experimentation practices, and drive continuous enhancements to ML features.
ML Evaluation and Enhancement: Institute a standardized model-evaluation approach emphasizing business impact, enforce appropriate model training/evaluation methods with relevant metrics justifying business value.
POC Management and Execution: Work closely with Product Management and Sales departments to craft and deploy POC AI solutions, effectively demonstrating and substantiating their influence.
ML Operations and Expansion: Evaluate business requirements to devise and implement appropriate ML training and inferencing frameworks and pipelines, endorse best practices in ML engineering for training/model optimization, and establish mechanisms for assessing and tracking model performance.
Technical Leadership and Supervision: Provide technical direction to AI engineers, ensuring high-quality technical output and continuous advancement. Provide career guidance and advancement prospects for engineers at various levels of seniority.
Desirable Attributes
The ideal candidate should possess the following traits:
- Adaptability: Flourishes in evolving environments, making well-informed choices amidst uncertainties.
- Collaboration Skills: Strong teamwork abilities required to align AI strategies with business and technical needs, necessitating effective communication across engineering, product, business, and client teams.
- Learning Agility: Comfortable in a start-up environment, unafraid of hands-on problem-solving and learning through experimentation to tackle new challenges. Active engagement with the latest ML trends and technologies.
- Technical Proficiency: An Engineering/Mathematics MS/PhD graduate with 15+ years' experience in ML/AI (with 10 years specifically in AI/ML and 5 years in DL/NLP). Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with TensorFlow and PyTorch. Proficient in MLOps practices, cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP, database systems, and large-scale microservice architecture.
The position can translate business requirements into technical needs, with expertise encompassing software testing, benchmarking, and continuous integration.
Software Developer
Full-time Hackintosh iOS development
Responsibilities:
- Designing, developing, and implementing iOS applications for our Hackintosh platform
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Troubleshooting application bugs and implementing solutions
- Ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies
- Providing technical support and guidance to users as needed
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as an iOS Developer or similar role
- Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Xcode
- Strong understanding of iOS development best practices
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge in web, mobile, and software development, engineering & architecture, customer service, and accounting and consulting specialist
If you are passionate about iOS development and eager to work on innovative projects in the Hackintosh space, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your resume and portfolio to be considered for this exciting opportunity.
Software Engineer
You will be responsible for setting the technical direction of fundamental platform layers that are integral to real-time multimodal systems.
Responsibilities:
Create efficient, cross-platform software frameworks supporting detection, sensing, haptics, and ML inference.
Design effective runtime execution systems and hardware abstraction layers to ensure low latency and high reliability.
Develop developer-friendly APIs for leveraging core platform capabilities.
Optimize camera, microphone, and haptics pipelines for seamless support of multimodal data streams.
Work with real-time data to ensure the frameworks run smoothly on diverse hardware configurations.
Requirements:
Minimum of 3 years' experience in building frameworks, performance-centric applications, or cross-platform systems.
Proficiency in C++/C#, along with proficiency in at least one other systems language such as Java, Rust, or Go.
Demonstrated experience in real-time systems development and optimizing code for high performance.
Experience in hardware abstraction and creating APIs for consumption by other engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
Background in computer vision, embedded systems, signal processing, low-latency software, or CI/CD infrastructure for high-performance codebases.
Full Stack Engineer (Web3 focused)
We are seeking a talented Full Stack Engineer to join our team dedicated to shaping a decentralized future. In this role, you will play a crucial part in building innovative applications that connect traditional web experiences with blockchain technology seamlessly.
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for developing decentralized applications (dApps) across the entire Animoca Brands ecosystem. This involves creating user-friendly interfaces, designing robust backend services, and ensuring strong integration with the EVM ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Web3 Integration: Design and implement scalable frontend interfaces that interact smoothly with blockchain technology utilizing libraries like Ethers.js, Viem, or Web3.js.
Backend Architecture: Develop and maintain high-performing APIs and microservices (Node.js/TypeScript) to support our range of games and platforms.
Security Focus: Implement and uphold stringent security standards across the tech stack to mitigate common Web3 vulnerabilities.
EVM Expertise: Dive deep into the EVM ecosystem, managing transaction processes, gas optimizations, and interactions with various Layer 2 solutions.
Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, UI/UX designers, and smart contract engineers to translate complex blockchain concepts into user-friendly products.
Qualifications
Blockchain Proficiency: Thorough understanding of EVM functionality, including providers, signers, transaction broadcasting, and blockchain data indexing.
Full-Stack Security: Experience securing Web3 applications, familiarity with OWASP Top 10, and security patterns for decentralized interfaces.
Modern Frontend Skills: Proficiency in React.js or Next.js and TypeScript for building performant state-driven applications.
Robust Backend Knowledge: Strong background in Node.js and relational or NoSQL databases.
Preferred Qualifications
Smart Contract Development: Hands-on experience in writing, testing, and deploying Solidity contracts via tools like Hardhat or Foundry.
DeFi/NFT Awareness: Knowledge of ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155 standards.
Infrastructure Expertise: Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud services like AWS.
Why Join Animoca Brands?
Diverse and Inclusive Workplace: Thrive in a vibrant, multi-cultural setting with colleagues from various backgrounds.
Web3 Incentives: Grow alongside innovative projects and play a significant role in the future.
Direct Impact and Open Structure: Your input matters; our flat organizational structure ensures rapid idea implementation.
Comfortable Environment: Enjoy a relaxed and productive work atmosphere with a casual dress code.
Cross-Project Opportunities: Collaborate with subsidiary brands across the network, gaining exposure to diverse projects and technologies.
Comprehensive Benefits: Benefit from a range of comprehensive packages including medical, life, and transportation allowances.
Senior Systems Engineer - Performance
Jito Labs specializes in creating cutting-edge high-performance distributed systems on the Solana platform. Our team is renowned for developing Jito-Solana, a premier MEV Solana client, and the groundbreaking Jito Block Engine, which has significantly improved block building on Solana, resulting in approximately 4.5 million SOL rewards for validators and stakers in the last year.
We are excited to introduce BAM, our latest product that aims to redefine Solana's market structure and transaction supply chain by prioritizing performance, reliability, and transaction privacy.
Why Choose Jito
High ownership: Take the lead in making crucial technical decisions and shaping product direction.
Fast execution: Embrace rapid shipping and iterative improvements based on real-world feedback.
Technical excellence: Tackle complex challenges with elegant solutions.
Sustainability: Our strong financial position allows us to focus on long-term impact rather than runway concerns.
Position Overview
We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our core team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in constructing crucial, cutting-edge infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem. You will have the opportunity to explore uncharted technical territories and devise innovative solutions across various aspects of our stack.
Systems & Infrastructure Engineering
Design and maintain high-performance Linux systems for transaction processing and block building.
Utilize virtualization and isolation technologies (KVM, QEMU, TEEs).
Debug and enhance the interaction between user-space systems and the Linux kernel.
Analyze CPU performance, memory management, I/O operations, and scheduling under real-world workloads.
Performance Engineering
Develop high-performance systems for processing and analyzing on-chain data.
Optimize critical pathways within our infrastructure and Solana core (Agave & Firedancer) to reduce latency and boost throughput.
Create new tools for monitoring and enhancing network efficiency.
Enhance system reliability through thoughtful design, observability, and fault isolation.
Contribute performance enhancements upstream (Solana / OS / QEMU components).
Requirements
Minimum 5 years of systems-level programming in C, C++, or Rust with proficiency in Rust.
Extensive experience in Linux systems engineering and performance-critical infrastructure.
In-depth knowledge of profiling and tracing tools such as perf, flamegraphs, and eBPF.
Experience in debugging network performance using tools like tcpdump, Wireshark, and packet capture analysis.
Familiarity with CPU microarchitecture considerations including cache behavior, branch prediction, and NUMA.
Demonstrated ability to delve into complex systems to identify and resolve issues accurately.
Strong communication skills.
Strongly Preferred
Experience in HFT, market-making, or ultra-low-latency trading systems.
Background in virtualization, hypervisors, TEE development.
Prior work involving the kernel or embedded systems.
Familiarity with Solana or blockchain infrastructure.
SALARY: $200,000 - $230,000 per year (Salary offered will be based on experience)
Additional Benefits:
Competitive compensation with multiple forms of equity.
100% employer-paid health benefits.
All-expenses-paid team retreats and conference opportunities.
Weekly meal voucher.