Software Engineer 5, Training Platform, AI Platform

Netflix

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$466,000–$750,000 / yr
Posted
104 days ago
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Above market

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Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

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TL;DR · Software Engineer 5, Training Platform, AI Platform

Software Engineer 5 – Training Platform, AI Platform joins the team to design and build the platform powering large-scale machine learning model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation workflows. This role involves co-designing and optimizing systems to increase the cost-effectiveness of training while building intuitive APIs for ML practitioners. You will diagnose and optimize performance for large distributed training jobs, focusing on GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and fault tolerance. The technical stack includes Kubernetes, Ray clusters, and PyTorch distributed training primitives, with a preference for AWS experience. You will work on infrastructure for foundation models and generative AI, solving problems related to personalized recommendations, studio algorithms, and content demand modeling. Key skills include distributed training performance analysis, parallelism techniques like FSDP, and promoting best practices in observability and logging.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build the platform for large-scale machine learning model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation workflows.
  • Optimize systems and models to increase the cost-effectiveness and scalability of distributed training jobs.
  • Develop easy-to-use APIs and interfaces for ML practitioners and non-experts to access the training platform.
  • Diagnose and optimize performance metrics including GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and communication overhead.
  • Build and operate platform infrastructure, libraries, and SDKs for foundation models and generative AI.
  • Implement best practices for observability, logging, reporting, and on-call processes to ensure engineering excellence.
  • Lead technical design reviews and facilitate cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders on platform direction.

What we're looking for

  • Design, build, and operate platform infrastructure, libraries, and SDKs for large-scale model training.
  • Enable reliable and efficient training workflows for foundation models and generative AI models of all sizes.
  • Diagnose and optimize performance of large distributed training jobs, including GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience with cloud computing providers, preferably AWS (preferred).
  • Ability to work across multiple layers of the tech stack to execute on both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 projects.
  • Adopt and promote best practices in operations, including observability, logging, reporting, and on-call processes.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed training and parallelism techniques such as FSDP and tensor/pipeline parallelism (preferred).

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