Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes, providing an app for home improvement and services. The Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team will build and evolve core AI platform capabilities, supporting AI-driven experiences for customers and pros across the Thumbtack ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve core AI platform capabilities that enable teams to develop, run, and scale GenAI-powered applications across Thumbtack
- Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of scalable tools and infrastructure to support the efforts of our applied scientists, including traditional ML model training and serving systems, feature and data workflows, CI/CD, orchestration, deployment, and evaluation tooling
- Work hands on across the stack, from backend services and execution infrastructure to integrations with AI models and tooling
- Partner with senior engineers to evaluate next-generation AI infrastructure frameworks and tools that help product teams harness advances in AI
- Drive projects to completion with a strong focus on business impact and measurable outcomes
- Solve complex technical problems and stay up to date with advances in this rapidly evolving space
Skills
- 1 to 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language, and the ability to work across multiple languages. Our primary stack includes Go and Python
- Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases such as Postgres or DynamoDB
- Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity, especially when learning and picking up new technologies when projects require it
- You operate with a bias to action, quickly learning what is needed and taking decisive steps to move work forward in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
Company Overview
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.thumbtack.com.