Software Engineer

Farsight AI•New York City, NY

5d•$120,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Farsight operates at the cutting-edge of AI to deliver human-like work within some of the world’s largest, and most critical, financial organizations. We have an extensive backlog from customer demand along with immense opportunities for product innovation, and as such need someone that can help rapidly expand our platform to be able to supercharge each of our users. You will be responsible for designing and implementing complete technical systems, informed from business needs and often directly addressing customer feedback. Being at the interface between customer and product, you will have to move extremely quickly - all while upholding our standard of developing clean, efficient, and ready for change software. The scope of your projects will range from longer term swings to bug fixes alike, each of which crucial to our company's success. Farsight is a highly collaborative environment where you and your highly motivated, passionate team members will continuously be working together to create new technology and applications that deliver the robust, accurate solutions that our customers are expecting.

Requirements

2+ years of non-internship software engineering experience
Knowledge and experience with building applications ready for both scale and production deployment
Experience with Python and cloud-based infrastructure like AWS
Strong interest in learning and understanding generative AI technology and the current, rapidly evolving landscape
Experience working in unstructured environments, where you took full autonomy of delivering projects from conception to deployment
Intrinsically motivated and self-critical of your work
Able to effectively communicate with and collaborate with a growing team
Bring a positive and fun attitude to the workplace!

Nice To Haves

Previously worked at either an early-stage startup or big tech
Previous development experience with AI systems, including utilizing closed-source models, fine-tuning and spinning up open-sourced models, etc.
Understanding of system design patterns and test-driven development techniques in order to create reliable, ready for change code
Previous experience interacting with customers and receiving customer feedback

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing complete technical systems, informed from business needs and often directly addressing customer feedback.
Moving extremely quickly at the interface between customer and product.
Developing clean, efficient, and ready for change software.
Working on projects ranging from longer term swings to bug fixes.
Collaborating with team members to create new technology and applications that deliver robust, accurate solutions.