Software Engineer

SGS Consulting; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in AR/MR technology seeks a Software Engineer to develop scalable distributed systems. Candidates will tackle technical challenges in machine perception technologies, optimizing backend systems using programming skills in Python and C/C++. This role offers an exciting opportunity to innovate in augmented and mixed reality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 2+ years of experience in relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Design core backend software components.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Maintain and improve system efficiency and scalability.

Skills

Proficient with Python

Proficient with C/C++

Experience with distributed systems

Experience improving efficiency and stability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Job description

This range is provided by SGS Consulting. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$70.00/hr - $85.00/hr

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Assistant Manager - Recruitment at SGS Consulting/Frontier Technologies INC. | Join a Team That's Changing the Game: AR/VR | Software & Hardware…

Summary:

Our team is looking for Software Engineers to support our engineering teams as we build towards our goal of helping more people around the world come together and connect through world-class Augmented and Mixed Reality hardware and software. With global departments dedicated to AR/MR research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more, we are committed to driving the state-of-the-art forward through relentless innovation. AR and MR potential to change the world is immense -- and we're just getting started.

Our XR Tech organization is focused on cutting edge research and development of machine perception technologies from early concepts to production level across all of our AR/MR products and surfaces. These include products, Glasses and Family of Apps. We develop core capabilities across a range of product domains including Spatial AI, Avatars, AR/MR remote presence/calling, AR Commerce, AR Sharing and more.

In this role, you will be building distributed systems that are scalable and adaptive to various data acquisition and ground truth data generation processes. We're addressing a variety of technical challenges in the areas of providing high-quality ground truth data that enable the training and evaluation of various ML models, including depth estimation, object detection, scene understanding, 3D reconstruction, SLAM tracking and occlusion modeling. Do you want to help build a scalable end-to-end pipeline that brings real-world AI to billions of people? We encourage you to apply and join us!

Software Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design core, backend software components

• Conduct design and code reviews

• Maintain, analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system infrastructure

• Establish self as an owner of a particular component, feature or system with expert end-to-end understanding

• Successfully completes projects at large scope while maintaining a consistent high level of productivity

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• Experience with distributed systems development

• Experience maintaining, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of backend systems

• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes

• Proficient with Python, C/C++ or Hack programming languages

Preferred Qualifications:

• MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability

• Experience owning a component or feature a distributed system

• Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

• Proficient with Python, C/C++ or Hack programming languages,

• Experience with distributed systems development

• Experience maintaining, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of backend systems

Good to have skills:

• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability

• Experience owning a component or feature a distributed system

• Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications

Years of experience needed:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field and 2+ years of industrial experience

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Social Networking Platforms

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