Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Level 5

is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Companys three core products are , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; , an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, .

teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. Were deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

Youll play a critical role in scaling our ML Infrastructure, optimizing AI training and inference systems, and driving innovations that make Snapchats ranking and recommendation systems more efficient and impactful.

Were looking for a Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure to join Snap Inc!

What Youll Do

• Design and optimize infrastructure systems for machine learning workloads at scale and drive reliability and efficiency improvements across Snapchats ML Infrastructure
• Develop high-performance inference systems to ensure fast and efficient AI model serving
• Build infrastructure to perform scalable ML model training, evaluation, and inference in the cloud
• Develop high-performance inference systems to ensure fast and efficient AI model serving
• Build comprehensive data management systems for scalable data collection, labeling, processing, and evaluation
• Work on state-of-the-art vector search algorithms to improve the precision, recall and scalability of our retrieval systems
• Work closely with ML engineers to deploy cutting-edge models into production
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala or C
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on system performance, scalability, and efficiency
• Good understanding of distributed systems and the infrastructure components of large-scale ML
• Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Ray
• Ability to collaborate and work well with others
• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience
• 6 years of post-Bachelors software development experience; or Masters degree in a technical field 5 year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field 2 years of post-grad software development experience
• Experience building large scale production machine learning systems, distributed systems or big data processing
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters/PhD in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent industry experience
• Experience working with ML Training platforms or optimizing AI model inference
• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, Spark ML, scikit-learn, or related frameworks
  
  

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please dont be shy and provide us some .

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: Snap Inc. is its own community, so weve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snaps long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position.These pay zones may be modified in the future.

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The base salary range for this position is $209,000-$313,000 annually.

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The base salary range for this position is $199,000-$297,000 annually.

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The base salary range for this position is $178,000-$266,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.