Staff Engineer, C++ and Optimization

Company: NEON
Location: Los Gatos
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

The Tech Team is responsible for the integral development of core technology and the science behind NEON. We are passionate about researching and building future generation of products to be used by millions of people. As a Staff Engineer, C++ and Optimization, you will be reporting to the Head of Technology as a senior member of the R&D team. You will be a key member of the staff that contributes to the design and development of our proprietary technology stack in C/C++/Python. You will translate broad specifications into high quality sustainable software and lead and undertake design activities to architect various key modules in the infrastructure. You will also create and optimize core parallel algorithms and design data flows and structures to provide the best solutions for our API and batch product suite. Importantly, you are responsible for developing and testing performance critical components of the system and will collaborate closely with team members designing software to find the best system-level solutions. This means continuously improving and guiding the team to improve processes and efficiently utilitize resources for long term.

• BS, MS or PhD from leading university in Computer Science and/or 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience developing C/C++ software, including modern C/C++ (C+/14) and multithreading, resource management and compute graph optimization
• 3 years of experience developing in C/C++ on medium to large size development teams in industry or research.
• Experience with systems level development, socket programming, and low-level I/O.
• Knowledge of and experience using toolchains, build systems, development tools and platform APIs.
• Strong knowledge of OOP, data structures, algorithms and operating systems.
• Ability to independently understand complex problems and devise efficient, robust solutions on multiple platforms (Windows and Linux).
• Experience with parallel programming, e.g. MPI, OpenMP, or CUDA.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages, (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Previous experience of scaling up and optimizing HPC, computer vision or deep learning training pipelines is a major plus.

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