Principal Software Engineer, Spice AI
$205-275k
+ Equity
AI app building service for developers
Open for applications
AI app building service for developers
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$205-275k
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make creating intelligent applications as easy as building a modern website.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience
- Experience in designing, implementing, scaling and shipping production distributed and data systems
- Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, and cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang
- A track record of good design, architectural, engineering and product decisions
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running
- Ideally experience contributing to open-source projects
- You are passionate about building amazing developer experiences. You start with a customer-obsessed product experience, and then figure out how to enable that with technology
- You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone
- You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible
- You care about meaningful work and changing the world. Your work is more than a job
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations you lead by creating clarity
- You are passionate about high performance and have high standards
What the job involves
- A leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project
- Creating, designing, and building the distributed and data systems architecture of Spice.ai, and our cloud systems, Spice Cloud and Spice Rack
- Take ownership and drive initiatives for improving the product
- Your first 90-days:
- Your first month - ramp up and contribute improvements to the Spice.ai project
- 30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area
- 60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Integrating AI and machine learning into applications remains tricky for developers. In spite of remarkable developments in both fields, a general skills gap means they’re not broadly deployed in the design of intelligent software. This looks likely to become a real pain point going forward, as demand for truly intelligent systems is on the rise - which is why Spice AI is developing a platform to help remedy this.
The company's platform consists of an open source decision engine, and pooled ‘ML-ready’ data, which in sum allow professional developers to more easily build machine learning and AI into their software. The platform also comes with ready-made ML building blocks available through Spicerack.
Funding for Spice AI comes from impressive players, like senior executives at HitHub and Microsoft Azure, as well as major VC firms like Madrona Venture Group and Founders’ Co-Op. This indicates strong confidence in the company's mission to help the AI software market reach its anticipated multi-billion dollar stature over the years ahead.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$13.5m
SEED
Oct 2021
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to face and overcome challenging problems at the intersection of web3 and AI, and help to shape the future of the industry
- Work side-by-side with technical founders, including our CEO, in a team with over 25 years of experience building infrastructure and developer experiences at Azure, Google, AWS, and GitHub
Company values
- Lead the Way: We continuously make it simpler for our customers to build data and AI-driven apps, helping them easily overcome web3 complexity. Leading the way requires each of us to be a leader – to take ownership, provide clarity, and progress towards realizing our vision
- Work as One: Spice AI is one team collectively building towards a shared vision. We trust, respect, and encourage each other through every challenge, and we celebrate every success together. We enable the community to thrive, empowering others to build, share, discover, learn, and develop next-generation solutions. As one, we unlock the greatest possibilities
- Empowering Developers: Dedicated to delivering the greatest developer experiences imaginable, we make our customers fall in love with our technology and tools. We enable them to build with ease and unlock ideas that push possibilities and enrich the lives of everyone, everywhere
- Simplicity is Perfection: We deliver the simplest solutions possible. Simple means less pain for developers, lower costs, and less labor. Simple gives our customers more time to do what they love and to focus on their objectives. Simplicity is perfection
Company HQ
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
Founders
Luke Kim
(CEO)Previously worked as a Tax Accountant at Baines Pendal & Co, alongside consulting with Tidesoft on IT and software engineering. In total has also spent well over a decade in various managerial roles at Microsoft.
Phillip LeBlanc
(CTO)Worked in various senior software engineer roles at Microsoft, before taking up a similar role at GitHub.
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