Software Development Engineer III

Altice USA • Bethpage, NY

74d • $133,661 - $219,586 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a highly skilled and experienced Software Development Engineer III with a strong background in AI and machine learning to join our growing AI engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of intelligent systems and AI-powered products. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to bring cutting-edge innovations to production at scale. You'll play a key role in technical decision-making, architecture, and mentoring junior/mid-level engineers while pushing the boundaries of what AI can do across our platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum 7 years of software development experience
• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead technical initiatives across teams
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, GIT, NodeJS, and Code Blocks
• Experience optimizing AI systems for performance, reliability, and scale
• Experience with Google CES, along with prompt engineering, is an added advantage
• Experience with Google Cloud capabilities
• The person should be a strong team player
• The person should be in the New York or Dallas/Fort Worth area and ready for the hybrid work culture (3 days in the office)

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of AI-driven systems and services
• Collaborate with research and product teams to translate ML models into scalable production applications
• Architect robust, scalable, and low-latency backend systems and AI pipelines
• Guide the design and implementation of APIs, microservices, and data pipelines supporting AI workloads
• Drive adoption of AI best practices to ethical AI and model interpretability
• Optimize machine learning models for performance, cost, and accuracy in production environments
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural guidance
• Own software reliability, testing, and observability of AI components
• Stay updated with advancements in AI/ML and drive continuous improvement of the tech stack

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Management of Companies and Enterprises
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees