Senior Software Engineer – AI Applications

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Job Description:

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – AI Applications. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain cloud-native, AI-driven products for Epiq's Fortune-500 customers. This role requires strong development skills, a passion for AI-driven products, and an understanding of Cloud services.

This role is part of Epiq's Legal Solutions organization. This is the first hire of a new team chartered to build next-generation products for a new market. Initially, you will report directly to the team's U.S.-based Director of Product Management. As the team grows, we will integrate you and the team into Epiq’s Hyderabad-based product-engineering organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Development: Design, develop, and maintain applications using modern frameworks and technologies. Own roadmaps, plans, and timelines. Lead architectural discussions and make technical decisions. Work on both rapid prototypes and enterprise-quality, high-scale products.
• AI Application: Select and operationalize foundation models as a service. Write prompts. Train, ground, and fine-tune models. Measure, evaluate, and optimize model performance. Integrate models into applications. Collect, clean, and preprocess data. Partner with domain experts to capture knowledge. Stay current with AI trends and technologies and apply them to solve real-world problems.
• Cloud: Leverage the tools and services of a major cloud provider. Build APIs, microservices, and serverless functions to support application functionality. Manage our cloud environment and CI/CD pipelines. Make tradeoffs around performance and cost.
• Communications: Partner with business leaders in India, US, and Europe. Clearly communicate status, technical challenges, tradeoffs, and insights.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, domain experts, and lead customers. Help shape requirements and roadmap. Help manage complex tradeoffs in speed, quality, and scope.
• Leadership: Build relationships, raise issues, define alternatives, and uncover resources. Establish practices, processes, and culture for a growing team.
  
  

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field. Master’s preferred.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, as an AI/ML engineer, or in a similar role.
• Development: Back-end experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, or C++. Familiarity with common front-end technologies. Experience with frontend-backend integration. Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases. Comfort with Agile processes.
• AI: Experience building with foundation models. Knowledge of ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and data pipelines. Familiarity with MLOps practices. Experience with data management.
• Cloud: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP). Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and containerization.
• Soft skills: Excellent communications, collaboration, and leadership skills. Results-driven, entrepreneurial, and comfortable working from 0→1.
• Physical Requirements: Ability to work in an office environment and perform tasks that may require sitting, standing, and using office equipment.
  
  

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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