Staff Software Engineer- Lead - ZipRecruiter

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer- Lead

Location: Hybrid at San Francisco, CA

Start Date: Immediate

Visa Sponsorship: Not at the moment

Requirements

As the Lead of a software engineering team, you will oversee the full software and model development lifecycle, working with various business and technology stakeholders and ensuring a seamless client management experience. This role places a strong emphasis on aligning technical solutions with client needs, fostering innovation, and delivering impactful results.

Team Responsibilities:

1. Develop Architectures: Design and implement scalable architectures for deploying and maintaining ML and AI solutions.
2. Build Infrastructure: Create and manage infrastructure components and CI/CD pipelines and extend existing ML services on AWS.
3. Evaluate Techniques: Assess retrieval methods, models, and generative AI techniques with a focus on practical solutions.
4. Ensure Quality: Implement automated testing and monitoring to maintain AI system accuracy and reliability.
5. Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and other cross-functional teams including our engineering team in India, facilitate data-driven decision making, and drive innovative solutions.
6. Optimize Solutions: Partner with the MLOps team to enhance AI/ML solutions for performance and scalability.
7. Mentor Team: Guide and coach team members on engineering best practices.
8. Drive Innovation: Stay current with AI advancements to foster innovation.
9. Documentation: Document and communicate methodologies, algorithms, findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications:

Please note that while you do not need to be an expert in every area, being familiar with most of the following is important. We are looking for someone who can effectively integrate everything, with team support to fill any gaps.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with machine learning models at scale.
• Extensive knowledge of AI/ML technologies, including libraries like scikit-learn, PyTorch, and Transformers.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, AWS (ECS, Lambdas, API Gateway), and ML/Gen AI services (AWS Bedrock, SageMaker).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and version control.
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented (RAG), chains, routing, and vector databases.
• Knowledge of MLOps practices, model development, deployment, and performance monitoring, including LLM use cases.
• Ideally, hands-on experience with model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and risk mitigation in production environments.
• Proven ability to lead and scale projects from prototype to production with hands-on experience working on user-facing products.
• Experience with life sciences or healthcare data is a plus.

Benefits:

How will you enrich Us:

• Energetic and Enthusiastic
• Autonomous and self-motivated
• Growth mindset
• Embraces challenges
• Challenges the status quo constructively

If you meet the qualifications and are excited about this opportunity, please submit your resume. We are looking to fill this role immediately and will review applications on a rolling basis.