Lightcast is looking for a skilled software engineer to work on the Classifiers & Extractors team. This team builds and maintains high-performance text extraction and classification libraries used to analyze job postings, resumes, and similar documents. In addition to the machine learning solutions, this team also produces the internal tooling and data pipelines to support teams of taxonomists and curators working to continuously improve Lightcast’s classifications and libraries.

The ideal candidate has significant experience working in high-performance systems languages such as C, and familiarity with machine learning techniques and Natural Language Processing. They also have experience mentoring junior developers or leading teams.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain extractors, classifiers, and the data pipelines to support them.
• Research the most effective solutions to text extraction and classification problems.
• Optimize solutions for maximal document per second per core throughput.
• Work with Lightcast’s taxonomists and data curators to build the internal tooling and data pipelines necessary to continuously improve our libraries.
• Mentor and lead a team of software engineers and data scientists.

Key Skills:

• Proficient in the C programming language or similar (D, C++).
• Working knowledge of Python.
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques and NLP.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Systems programming on Linux, including working knowledge of virtual memory, optimizing for cacheline performance, and using the perf toolkit.
• Experience working in a high performance production environment.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Git version control.
• Debugging with GDB.
• AWS S3, EC2, Athena.

This position reports to the C&E Team Lead and has significant opportunity for career progression either as an individual contributor or as a team lead or manager.

Lightcast is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $103,000.00 - $165,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift

Experience:

• C, C++, or D: 3 years (Required)
• Python: 1 year (Required)
• Machine Learning: 1 year (Required)
• Natural language processing: 1 year (Required)
• Leadership: 3 years (Required)
• Linux: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: Remote