AI Integrations Software Engineer

Join our growing team at Vetcove, and help us transform how veterinarians buy the supplies they need to keep America's pets healthy. Vetcove's eCommerce and mobile platforms enable veterinary practices to compare and buy from all of their vendors in one place. Our community of more than 17,000 veterinary hospitals employs tens of thousands of veterinarians, and delivers care to many millions of animals every year across all 50 states. We’re a growing team on a mission to modernize the $50B+ animal health industry. Simply put, Vetcove helps veterinary organizations spend more time giving care, and less time shopping and comparing across vendors to supply their practices. Vetcove is a Y Combinator and venture-backed growth stage company with notable investors in Silicon Valley and NYC. We're looking for exceptionally talented and passionate people to join our growing team. 

About Our Team 

We move lightning-fast in an industry that was previously slow to adopt technology. As Vetcove quickly expands its offerings to better serve veterinary groups and their pet parents, we’re quickly growing our engineering team to keep pace with the rapid expansion of our business, while maintaining exceptional code quality and system integrity. 

You’ll have an opportunity to work closely with end users, handle large scale infrastructure challenges, and everything in between.

About the Position 

As an AI integration software engineer, you will be responsible for integrating cutting-edge LLM models from providers like OpenAI into our existing features to enhance our products' capabilities and deliver a better user experience.

Tools We Use:

We primarily use python and the Django web framework for powering our backend APIs and internal tooling.

Tech Stack: Python, Django, Elasticsearch, Postgres

Other Tools: Git, Docker

Primary responsibilities include:

• Evaluating and selecting the most appropriate AI models for our products based on our business needs and requirements.

• Developing and maintaining AI-powered application features using Python

• Testing and validating the performance of AI models in real-world scenarios and troubleshooting issues as they arise.

• Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI technology and identifying opportunities for innovation within our products.

• Fine-tuning, evaluating, and iterating on LLM models in production

• Work directly with our CTO and engineering team, as well as across other functions to continuously evolve our platform and products

You should have 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• At least 3 years of experience in software development, including experience in building a professionally successful production application in a modern web framework

• Strong knowledge of AI models, including natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL)

• A passion for staying up to date with the latest developments in AI

• Strong engineering fundamentals with various back-end technologies

• Ability to design new features around data models with accuracy, security, and performance in mind

• A positive attitude and one-for-all team mentality

If you are passionate about AI and have experience in integrating AI models into existing software systems, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Note that this role does not require designing and implementing new machine learning models, but rather integrating and fine-tuning existing models currently available in the market.

Benefits

• 100% remote within the USA

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance  

• Automatic 401k contribution

• Employee referral program

• At home office set up 

• Bi-annual company retreats 

• Open vacation policy 

• Equity

• Monthly team events

Please note we are unable to sponsor work visas at this time.

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