Sr. Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers.
$180,000 - $300,000
Machine Learning
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Sr. Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join their AI Platform team, focusing on scaling LinkedIn's AI model training, feature engineering, and serving infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to work at the world's largest professional network, helping shape the future of AI applications at massive scale.

The role involves working with cutting-edge AI technologies, including large language models and recommendation systems, with models containing hundreds of billions of parameters. You'll be responsible for optimizing performance across algorithms, AI frameworks, data infrastructure, and hardware, managing a GPU fleet with thousands of latest-generation cards.

The team has deep connections to the open source community, with many team members being active contributors to projects like TensorFlow, Horovod, Ray, vLLM, Huggingface, and DeepSpeed. You'll have the opportunity to influence and contribute to these projects while working on LinkedIn's AI infrastructure.

Key focus areas include:

  • Model Training Infrastructure: Building next-gen training infrastructure for AI use cases, optimizing data I/O, enabling distributed training for 100B+ parameter models
  • Feature Engineering: Creating state-of-the-art feature platforms for AI users across online/offline/nearline environments
  • Model Serving Infrastructure: Developing low-latency applications serving large & complex models with high performance
  • MLOps: Leading AI metadata, observability, orchestration, and experimentation systems

The role offers hybrid work options between LinkedIn offices in Mountain View, CA or Bellevue, WA. You'll work with talented teams of researchers and engineers, building your career and personal brand in the AI industry while solving challenging problems at scale.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to:

  • Work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure problems at massive scale
  • Contribute to and influence major open source projects
  • Lead technical strategy across teams
  • Mentor other engineers and shape technical culture
  • Build systems that power AI applications used by millions of professionals worldwide

The compensation package includes a competitive salary range of $180,000 to $300,000, plus annual performance bonus, stock, and comprehensive benefits.

Last updated 3 months ago

Responsibilities For Sr. Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

  • Own technical strategy for broad/complex requirements across teams
  • Design and implement large-scale distributed serving/training for recommendation and language models
  • Improve system observability and developer productivity
  • Mentor other engineers and define technical culture
  • Work with open-source community and influence projects
  • Lead key AI Infrastructure initiatives

Requirements For Sr. Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

Python
Java
Go
Rust
Scala
Kubernetes
  • BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of industry experience in software design and algorithm solutions
  • 5+ years programming in object-oriented languages (Python, C++, Java, Go, Rust, Scala)
  • 2+ years of experience as an architect or technical leader
  • 5+ years experience leading/building deep learning systems
  • 5+ years experience developing distributed systems
  • Experience with machine learning infrastructure and deep learning frameworks

Benefits For Sr. Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401k
Equity
  • Competitive salary range $180,000-$300,000
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Stock/equity
  • Comprehensive medical benefits
  • Hybrid work options

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