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Senior Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-27

Core

Develop and operate large-scale, low-latency, high-throughput systems; evaluate and implement AI technologies (LLMs, SLMs, embeddings, RAG) to improve firmware and hardware; drive continuous improvement via Root Cause Analysis.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (AI/Hardware Systems)

Builds

Firmware/hardware improvements, AI platform features, production systems

Domain

Hardware engineering, AI/ML, Data Center infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C, C++, C#, Python, GPU system hardware, memory management, failure analysis, debugging, automation, security compliance, telemetry integration, RCA

Preferred skills

firmware development, testing strategies, requirement definitions, data center project lifecycle

Technologies

LLMs, SLMs, embeddings, RAG, GPU, CPU, Memory

Responsibilities

Evaluate AI architectures for firmware/hardware improvement; implement AI platform improvements like fine-tuning; perform Root Cause Analysis for system restoration; integrate telemetry data for performance insights; produce code to test technical hypotheses; define and measure analytics feature success.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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