Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

About the Company

Models are what they eat. But a large portion of training compute is wasted training on data that are already learned, irrelevant, or even harmful, leading to worse models that cost more to train and deploy.

At DatologyAI, we've built a state of the art data curation suite to automatically curate and optimize petabytes of data to create the best possible training data for your models. Training on curated data can dramatically reduce training time and cost (7-40x faster training depending on the use case), dramatically increase model performance as if you had trained on >10x more raw data without increasing the cost of training, and allow smaller models with fewer than half the parameters to outperform larger models despite using far less compute at inference time, substantially reducing the cost of deployment. For more details, check out our recent blog posts sharing our high-level results for text models and image-text models.

We raised a total of $57.5M in two rounds, a Seed and Series A. Our investors include Felicis Ventures, Radical Ventures, Amplify Partners, Microsoft, Amazon, and AI visionaries like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Jeff Dean, and many others who deeply understand the importance and difficulty of identifying and optimizing the best possible training data for models. Our team has pioneered this frontier research area and has the deep expertise on both data research and data engineering necessary to solve this incredibly challenging problem and make data curation easy for anyone who wants to train their own model on their own data.

This role is based in Redwood City, CA. We are in office 4 days a week.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Data Platform Engineer to join as a member of our core Datology AI team. As one of our early senior hires, you will partner closely with our founders on the direction of our product and drive business-critical technical decisions. You will lead the development of our core product and data platform. These are key components of our stack that allow us to process customer data and apply state of the art research for identifying the most informative data points in large-scale datasets. You will have a broad impact over the technology, product, and our company's culture. We provide visa sponsorship for candidates selected for this role.

What You'll Work On

• Design, build and maintain highly scalable data processing solutions, while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Architect, build, and deploy the back-end systems and services that power our data curation platform
• Partner with researchers and engineers to bring new features and research capabilities to our customers
• Ensure that our systems are reliable, secure, and worthy of our customers' trust

About You

• Have meaningful experience with leading and building production data systems to deliver on major product initiatives.
  
  • You have built and managed highly scalable data processing solutions (e.g. Spark, Flink), data lakes or warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, Hive), authored queries (SQL), distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3), used workflow management (e.g. Airflow, Dagster), and have experience maintaining the infra that supports these.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• Expertise with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, or similar frameworks.
• Experience maintaining a high quality bar for design, correctness, and testing.
• Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
• You have experience being the technical lead of a Data Engineering / Platform / Infrastructure Team.
• Experience building ML/DL systems and/or data infrastructure that feeds into training large ML models

Don't meet every single requirement? We still encourage you to apply. If you're excited about our mission and eager to learn, we want to hear from you!

Compensation

At DatologyAI, we are dedicated to rewarding talent with highly competitive salary and significant equity. The base salary for this position ranges from $180,000 to $300,000.

• The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and interview performance.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees' well-being and professional growth:

• 100% covered health benefits (medical, vision, and dental).
• 401(k) plan with a generous 4% company match.
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Annual $2,000 wellness stipend.
• Annual $1,000 learning and development stipend.
• Daily lunches and snacks are provided in our office!
• Relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area.