Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Content Retrieval Platform, Level 4 (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, United States; office work expected 4+ days per week under Snap's “default together” policy

Company

Snap develops hirify.global and other digital services focused on visual communication, augmented experiences, and social products.

What you will do

• Design and optimize large-scale ML infrastructure systems, improving reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Build feature generation and serving pipelines for online inference and offline training data.
• Develop high-performance inference and model-serving systems.
• Build cloud infrastructure for scalable ML training, evaluation, and inference.
• Develop data management systems for collection, labeling, processing, and evaluation.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy models into production using secure, production-ready engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 2 years of post-bachelor’s software development experience, or equivalent experience with a master’s or PhD.
• Experience building large-scale production ML systems, distributed systems, or big data processing systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and Java.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, large-scale ML infrastructure, and system performance optimization.
• Experience with Spark, Flink, Ray, or similar big data processing frameworks.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in a technical field or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience with ML training platforms or AI model inference optimization.
• Familiarity with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, Spark ML, scikit-learn, or related frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration through the “default together” office policy.
• Paid parental leave and comprehensive medical coverage.
• Emotional and mental health support programs.
• Compensation packages connected to Snap’s long-term success.
• Equal opportunity employment and workplace accommodation support.