Senior Software Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg’s Engineering AI group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to advance production machine learning systems and applications that power search, discovery, and analytics across financial data and news.

You will collaborate with ML scientists and software engineers to design, implement, test, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant code, and you will lead cross-team projects and contribute to open-source communities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a 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 the ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and management

Responsibilities

• 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 in open-source communities
• Demonstrate technical leadership by owning cross-team projects
• Build libraries and frameworks that support fault-tolerant and testable systems

Skills

C/C++

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Overview

Bloomberg’s Engineering AI department has 400+ AI practitioners building innovative products and features. We invest in AI to build better search, discovery, and workflow solutions using technologies such as transformers, gradient boosted decision trees, large language models, and dense vector databases. We are expanding our group and seeking highly skilled individuals who will contribute to the team or teams of Machine Learning and Software Engineers bringing AI-driven customer-facing products to life.

At Bloomberg, we foster a transparent and efficient financial marketplace. Our technology makes news, research, financial data, and analytics on over 35 million financial instruments searchable, discoverable, and actionable across the global capital markets.

Bloomberg has been building AI applications that offer high accuracy and low latency since 2009. We build AI systems to process and organize the increasing volume of structured and unstructured information needed to make informed decisions. Our use of AI uncovers signals, produces analytics about financial instruments in all asset classes, and delivers clarity when clients need it most.

Our engineers are responsible for architecting and implementing machine learning systems end-to-end, addressing the unique challenges of such systems in the financial domain. Current projects include unified search, question answering, query parsing, financial instrument pricing, and dialogue understanding.

Role

Join the AI Group as a Senior Software Engineer and you will have the opportunity 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 in open-source communities
• Demonstrate technical leadership by owning cross-team projects
• Build libraries and frameworks that support fault-tolerant and testable systems

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a 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 the ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and management