Senior Software Engineer - Artificial Intelligence Group

The AI Group is the central engineering group responsible for driving Machine Learning (ML) adoption at Bloomberg, with over 200 researchers and engineers working together to provide clients with the best-in-class news, research, market data, and analytics using innovative machine learning technology. We directly impact a wide variety of our flagship products, including news, research, pricing, communications platforms, search and discovery tools. We work on a variety of ML fields, including natural language processing, information retrieval, time series analysis, and recommender systems. 

Some projects where we are looking for experienced software engineers include: unified search, question answering, query parsing, financial instrument (e.g., fixed income) pricing, dialogue understanding. Our engineers are responsible for architecting and implementing services end-to-end, overcoming unique challenges that come with machine learning systems in the financial domain. In addition, we contribute to open source; contributions we have made and work with include Solr, Koan, KFServing, Cloud Native Buildpacks and PyTorch Lightning that directly impact our production services. 

Broadly, we are looking for colleagues who are passionate about software engineering and who want to learn more about:

• Parallel and distributed systems like Kubernetes, OpenMPI, Apache Kafka,
• Applied Machine Learning frameworks like PyTorch, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and
• Data-driven frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Solr, Pandas, Apache Hadoop.

If all of this sounds like the projects you are passionate about and want to work on, apply! Do check out our blog at https://TechAtBloomberg.com/AI and learn more about our projects and research.

We'll trust you to:

• Collaborate with colleagues on production machine-learning systems and applications
• Design, experiment, and evaluate software systems,
• Write, test, and maintain production-quality code,
• Represent Bloomberg at conferences and open-source communities,
• Demonstrate technical leadership by owning cross-team projects, and
• Build the libraries and frameworks that support fault tolerant and testable systems.

You'll need to have:

• 4+ years of experience working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience 
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• An honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders and management 

If this sounds like you: 

Apply if you think we're a good match! We'll get in touch with you to let you kno w what the next steps are. In the meantime, check us out at http://www.techatbloomberg.com/ (http://www.techatbloomberg.com/)

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