Senior Computer Scientist - I
Firefly Enterprise group is building highly scalable and available APIs/workflow offerings for Enterprise Customers.
Firefly Enterprise - Video API team is looking for a passionate backend engineer to enable and accelerate the Video APIs powered by pioneering machine learning models. In this role, you will work closely with ML researchers, bringing groundbreaking AI experiences to our users by enabling large-scale productization through cloud-based services.
What you ll do
- Design and development of one or more services/components.
- Responsible for the full lifecycle of the project from user story to design, development, testing, documentation, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with ML engineers to design and integrate AI/ML model orchestration and inference workflows.
- As a senior member in the team, you would be responsible for architecture, design, quality, coding standards, reviews, documentation, and deployment.
- Build scalable and reliable cloud services with observability, logging, and tracing to enable quick detection, understanding, and resolution of run-time issues
- Build GPU-optimized, efficient model pipelines that power the AI features
- Work collaboratively with a distributed team of engineers, researchers, and product managers to build GenAI services/API to enable the next generation of video workflows in the web, desktop, and mobile apps
- Partner with internal client teams and enterprise customers to seamlessly integrate these services/APIs into their products
- Mentor junior team members
What you need to succeed
- B. Tech and/or M. Tech in Computer Science with an excellent academic record, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of software development experience primarily in back-end systems
- Expertise in Java / Python and related frameworks
- Deep knowledge of server-side technologies and familiarity with frameworks (REST, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, Docker, CI/CD, etc.)
- Exposure to AI/ML systems integration , model serving, or workflow orchestration.
- Proven experience in developing scalable Cloud-based services on AWS/Azure
- Good hold on Video Basics
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with experience in defining and understanding complex system architectures and design patterns
- Able to maintain exceptional development standards, especially related to performance, robustness, and scalability
- Proficient in data structures and algorithms
- Strong programming and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter, with ability and interest in learning new technologies and adapting quickly to new requirements and environments
- Good written and verbal communication skills to be able to articulate deep technical decisions
- Experience with Agile development practices
