Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform

Image understanding is at the heart of what makes Facet unique. Knowing the semantic, textural, and physical properties of any photo allows us to explore completely novel editing abstractions that empower our users. Between the many image properties we need to extract and the rapidly-evolving state of computer vision research, it is vital that we be able to train, evaluate, and ship models quickly, and ensure that these models can be easily integrated into our web-based frontend.

Using your 5+ years of professional experience, you would work across the Facet tech stack to build out ML-based features along with the internal tooling and infrastructure to support them. These models will support features such as object selection and matting, image inpainting, and example-based color adjustment. They will need to not only be fast and accurate, but produce results in a way that our users can understand and reason about.

This role offers the unique opportunity to navigate the challenge of uniting professional artists and ML algorithms into the same creative loop. If you’re as interested in that as we are, we hope we’ll be hearing from you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing backend infrastructure / services
  
  
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
  
  
• Deep knowledge of industry ecosystems around build, deployment, orchestration, and monitoring
  
  
• Ability to operate at pace and make decisions quickly – applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk
  
  
• Committed to delivering outcomes, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, and execution
  
  
• Demonstrated ability to propose effective solutions, build them quickly, and iterate on them in response to feedback
  
  
• Aptitude for clearly communicating difficult technical concepts
  
  
• Familiarity with more than one cloud computing environment
  
  
• Empathy for the designers, artists, and the visual creative workers who use our product

Responsibilities

• Enable the Facet team to easily develop and deploy new machine learning capabilities at scale
  
  
• Be ruthless about latency and performance; Facet is integral to our users’ professional work
  
  
• Design, develop, document and test the infrastructure that hosts Facet’s ML services
  
  
• Work closely with engineers, product, and other domain experts to productionize AI/ML models and pipelines 
  
  
• Instrument and monitor the health of ML services and the quality of the results they produce
  
  
• Stay up to date on the latest leading technologies in the AI/ML software ecosystem  

Added plus: personal or professional exposure to photography, video creators, production or post-production including VFX and editing.

Facet benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.

• Paid parental leave for primary or secondary caregivers.

• Three weeks paid vacation.

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance and OneMedical membership.

• Build your own work environment: customize your laptop and desk setup with any peripheral or accessory you'd like.

• Order any work-related books on the company's Amazon account.

• Flexible working hours: we have daily team stand-ups, but we understand if you work better when you're not tethered to your desk.

• Relocation assistance.

• Yearly stipend for learning and development.

• Commuter benefits including a monthly ride-sharing stipend.

About Facet

Facet powers visual storytelling at scale through creative and supportive AI. Create stunning visuals with our AI-driven, project-based photo editor. Designed from the ground up to rethink the process of photorealistic editing, Facet lets you edit, collaborate, and create in a brand new way. ‘AI-driven’ means that Facet sees a photo like you see a photo - as a picture instead of pixels - so you can edit intuitively. A project-based file structure means that when you edit one photo your edits apply instantaneously to your whole project - whether that’s tens, hundreds, or thousands of photos. Bring stakeholders into your file to comment and collaborate simultaneously - or export your edits and apply them to a new project or share with a collaborator. Surf through styles and unlock new visual directions with non-destructive editing and an infinite history embedded within your layers. Whether you're an artist, content editor, or brand manager, Facet gives you the tools you need to streamline your process, so you can go wherever your creativity takes you.   

Facet is being used by thousands of creatives around the world. You can see examples of their work on