Provide leadership and initiative in the overall coordination of designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs highly complex software programs for enhancements and new products. Responsible for highly complex concept design through the full development life cycle. Prepares and conducts systems programming test requiring interfacing and software tests. Coaches others in less senior positions.
About the Team:
Fedex Dataworks is seeking a daring Lead Software Engineer to join one of our world-class engineering teams. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply the latest AI technologies and frameworks, accelerate value across the company, and lead us into the digital future!
Responsibilities:
- Work across backend, frontend, and interact with LLMs and/or other ML models
- Deliver high-quality experiments and solutions
- Collaborate with diverse teams across the entire lifecycle from intake to experimentation to graduation
- Conceptualize, develop, and deploy features and enhancements using artificial intelligence technologies and frameworks
- Design, architect, and implement scalable backend systems and APIs
- Optimize AI algorithms and models for efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
- Integrate machine learning models, algorithms, and data pipelines into the backend infrastructure
- Continually improve LLM performance and accuracy
- Stay abreast of industry trends and evaluate their potential impact on our product roadmap
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team
- Mentor and provide technical guidance
Skills:
- Excitement to work within AI and Data Science environments
- Background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Solid understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, and fine tuning
- Knowledge or working experience with models such as LLaMA, LlamaIndex, Lang Chain, and more
- Strong understanding of AI tooling ecosystem including Kubernetes, MLOps, and AIOps tools
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL Graph, and Vector databases
- Experience with machine learning concepts and techniques
- Proficiency with Python and ML-adjacent libraries
- Proficiencies in one or more of Python, Node, React, Next.js, and MongoDB
- Experience scaling products at hyper-growth
- Exceptional problem-solving, verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Minimum Qualifications:
Software Engineer Lead -
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Five (5) to Seven (7) years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
Software Engineer II -
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Two (2) years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience.
Sponsorship is not available for the Software Engineer II position.
Domicile Information:
This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.
Application Criteria:
Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by May 8, 2024.
Additional Information
Colorado, Nevada, Connecticut, New York, California, Rhode Island, Washington, Hawaii, Illinois and New Jersey Residents Only - Compensation: Monthly Salary: $10,667.00 - $13,333.00. This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include but are not limited to your specific skills, your work location, how many years of experience you have, and comparison to other employees already in this role.
Born out of FedEx, a pioneer that ships nearly 20 million packages a day and manages endless threads of information, FedEx Dataworks is an organization rooted in connecting the physical and digital sides of our network to meet today's needs and address tomorrow's challenges.
We are creating opportunities for FedEx, our customers, and the world at large by:
- Exploring and harnessing data to define and solve true problems;
- Removing barriers between data sets to create new avenues of insight;
- Building and iterating on solutions that generate value;
- Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance.
At FedEx Dataworks, we are making supply chains work smarter for everyone.
Employee Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid Life and AD&D insurance; tuition reimbursement; paid sick leave; paid parental leave, paid vacation, paid military leave, and additional paid time off; geographic pay ranges; 401k with Company match and incentive bonus potential; sales Incentive compensation for selling roles.
Dataworks does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, Dataworks is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact DataworksTalentAcquisition@corp.ds.fedex.com.