Senior Software Engineer – AI Oversight

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and deliver essential infrastructure for privacy-preserving AI evaluations, primarily utilizing Python.

• Enhance and fortify secure enclave (TEE) solutions.

• Expand the capabilities of PySyft, the open-source library, incorporating workers and verified receipts.

• Implement and provide support for software within partner environments, including frontier labs, evaluators, and government entities.

• Enhance deployment reliability across various production settings.

• Assist in scaling the product from a single production deployment to multiple instances, while improving reliability, scalability, and user experience.

• Produce clean, tested, and easily readable code.

• Conduct reviews of colleagues' work.

• Translate ambiguous requirements into clear, actionable designs.

• Communicate technical trade-offs to both engineers and non-engineers.

• Utilize AI coding tools while ensuring high standards of quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional engineering experience with a strong proficiency in Python.

• Exceptional hands-on coding abilities: you write code daily that is clean, reliable, comprehensible, and well-tested.

• In-depth understanding of software architecture, systems design, and engineering trade-offs.

• Strong communication skills, capable of clearly and concisely conveying technical concepts, timelines, risks, and trade-offs.

• Full-stack development experience on at least one project, including backend, data, frontend, and deployment aspects.

• Experience with CI/CD processes, debugging intricate systems, and utilizing cloud infrastructure.

• Awareness of security, scalability, and reliability considerations.

• Quick to grasp unfamiliar concepts and convert them into effective solutions.

• Collaborative and adaptable, comfortable with providing and receiving constructive feedback within a small, fully remote team.

• Preferred: Experience with secure enclaves (TEEs), confidential computing, or related security fields.

• Preferred: Familiarity with distributed systems.

• Preferred: Experience in deploying software within other organizations' environments.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms like Google Cloud or AWS.

• Preferred: Experience in AI safety, privacy-enhancing technologies, or language models.

• Preferred: Contributions to open-source projects.

• Preferred: Background in developing products for developers.

• Preferred: Experience in a startup setting.

• Preferred: Proficiency in a lower-level language such as Rust, Go, or C++ for performance-critical tasks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Mission-Driven Work: Join a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on social impact rather than profit, providing an opportunity to make a significant difference in the world.

• Open Source Contribution: Contribute to an Open Source project that makes a positive impact on a wide community.

• Collaborative Global Team: Become part of a vibrant, international team that prioritizes collaboration and diversity.

• Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the freedom to organize your work hours in a way that best suits your life and productivity.

• Fully Remote Work: Work remotely while meeting the location requirements for this position.