The New York Times is looking to build an internal AI Platform to enable teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications that use large language models (LLMs) to advance its journalism and business.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership.
- 7+ years of experience in one or more backend programming languages such as Python or Go.
- 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed systems and APIs.
- 5+ years of experience database technologies, including both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- 2+ years of experience building applications with Large Language Models (LLMs) and a deep understanding of the surrounding ecosystem (e.g., orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation).
- Extensive experience with MLOps, including building systems for model and prompt evaluation, tracing, and monitoring.
- Deep familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for the AI Platform.
- Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, reliable, and performant backend services and APIs.
- Make critical technical decisions that will have a lasting impact on the platform and the engineering organization.
- Mentor and grow other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with other senior technical leaders across the organization to ensure the AI Platform aligns with broader company-wide technical strategy.
- Stay at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI and LLM landscape, identifying and advocating for the adoption of new technologies and best practices.
- Tackle the most complex and ambiguous technical challenges on the team.
Other
- This is a hybrid position based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law.
- The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
