X, Alphabet's moonshot factory, is looking to revolutionize the industrial world by making material transformation intelligent and reducing massive waste in material harvesting and processing
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend systems, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), and API design
- Demonstrated experience in a Technical Lead capacity, specifically managing external vendors or distributed engineering teams
- Strong experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as Python, C/C++, as well as experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience designing systems that utilize Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Knowledge Graphs and agentic systems
- Familiarity with Vison Language Models and handling multimodal data (images, diagrams, text)
- Familiarity with LLM fine tuning (supervised or reinforcement learning)
- Background or strong interest in industrial automation, or physics-based simulation
Responsibilities
- System Architecture and Backend Ownership: Drive the technical architecture evolution in collaboration with the wider engineering team, while maintaining hands-on ownership of the core backend development
- Vendor and Technical Management: Act as the technical lead for a team of external ML/SWE contractors
- Productization: Lead the transition of our technology from 'research prototypes' to 'deployed pilots'
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Bridge the gap between deep-tech research (physics modeling, sensing, ML) and software delivery
- Build the cloud-native infrastructure that serves as the foundation for orchestrating computer vision, document ingestion, knowledge graph model development, agentic systems for real world physical applications
- Perform code reviews, set architectural standards, and ensure seamless integration of contributions into the main codebase
- Ensure our systems can handle real-time sensor data integration and meet the security/reliability standards of enterprise partners
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and navigate the '0 to 1' phase of product development
- Exposure to material processing, or manufacturing sectors is a strong plus
- Travel requirements not specified
- US work authorization required (implied by US base salary range)
