Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
Location: Global Remote
Department: Engineering
If you want to democratize access to cutting edge AI, while averting potential harmful impacts on society, OpenMined is the place for you. We’re building PySyft, an open source software platform for doing just that, and we need you!
We are looking for a highly talented individual, with hard won industry experience, a track record of exceeding expectations, and who is ready to level up and do the most challenging and rewarding thing in their career so far.
Mission
Over the last 20 years, a handful of AI algorithms have come to directly guide over 12 billion hours a day of people’s time, equating roughly to 9.3% of the waking human experience.
Now, frontier AI systems are emerging with the potential to push beyond this 9.3% and enhance or automate intellectual labor around the world with superintelligent capabilities. However, we are largely blind to AI’s full effect upon the world because researchers can’t sufficiently access AI models or datasets at 1st or 3rd parties.
16,000+ members strong and 6+ years old, OpenMined is a non-profit on a mission to help AI researchers understand and predict AI’s impact on society. We do this by building AI governance infrastructure using privacy enhancing technologies that helps researchers access AI systems and datasets — to study AI’s impact on the world.
We think this external access problem is really really important, and we’ve started on solving the first step, AI auditing. If you want to help solve this problem and unlock 1000x more data in every scientific field, we’d love to talk to you.
Role
You will join a team led by Andrew Trask (author of Grokking Deep Learning), as a seasoned engineer, helping us build libraries, frameworks, and network protocols to facilitate the secure execution of data science and machine learning code in remote infrastructure.
Skills & Qualifications
- Significant experience using Python to do interesting things
- Proficiency working with containers, cloud and virtualization technologies
- Owning important technical decisions and tradeoffs in challenging projects
- Effective communication skills and desire for radical candor
- The ability to learn things quickly as needed
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our global teams to design and build innovative features for PySyft
- Engage in planning and scoping with Tech Leads and the Product Team
- Actively contribute to our diverse and inclusive team culture
- Deliver monthly feature sets, balancing delivery cadence and feature scope
- Interact with globally recognized partner organizations to ensure product success
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
- CI / CD
- Kubernetes
- RPC / Serde
- Security / Encryption
- Peer-to-Peer Networking
- GPU Optimization
- Federated Learning
- Differential Privacy
- Secure Multi-Party Computation
- Network Protocols
- Big Data / MapReduce
- Deep Learning
Compensation
You will work fully remote from where you want and experience the freedom to use the tools you prefer to get the job done. #LI-Remote
We pay above market wages in most regions and get out of your way so you can be productive at work; and we provide flexible vacation so you can spend your free time feeling truly relaxed.
What you get
- Be part of a 501(c)(3) instead of a profit driven VC backed startup
- Enjoy the flexibility to work the hours that make sense for you
- Work fully remote from wherever you want #LI-Remote
- Contribute to an Open Source project in a public GitHub repo
- Work somewhere that values getting things done over organizational entropy
- Take flexible vacation time
- We pay competitively
Impact
Recently the UK Frontier AI TaskForce (AI Safety Institute) announced their partnership with OpenMined to “develop and deploy technical infrastructure that will facilitate AI safety research across governments and AI research organisations”.
Join OpenMined and you will work on these important problems with a team that has a successful track record of executing high-impact projects and collaborations that span the globe. We have partnered with companies and organizations such as Meta, PyTorch, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, the United Nations and the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, France, and New Zealand.
Are you ready for the most challenging and rewarding role of your career so far?