Lab Summary:
Bixby is a next-generation intelligent virtual personal assistant created for Samsung flagship devices and wearables. It uses Natural Language Understanding to perform tasks on these devices using voice/ text, including but not limited to making phone calls, sending text messages, setting up meetings, alarms, and timers, answering questions and much more. Bixby also provides a truly open platform that lets any developer extend its knowledge and capabilities by using the Bixby IDE.
Position Summary:
In this technical and hands-on role, you will maintain, refine, and evolve our Java A.I. platform by collaborating closely with our diverse and global machine learning teams. In addition to being the brain of Bixby, by dynamically adopting LLM’s to find an answer to our users’ questions, this platform also exposes a powerful layer for 3rd party developers to design, develop, debug, and train models used by our A.I. backend.
You will join and work closely with Bixby’s platform team on system design, prototyping, and eventual production-level implementation and deployment of an intelligent AI based system. You will share responsibility for the evolution of the above system.
Position Responsibilities:
- Managing the codebase for our intelligent Bixby platform
- Building new micro services and enhancing existing ones
- Scale and adapt the platform to adapt for Multiple LLM agents
- Adding new platform support features for both internal and external consumers following software engineering best practices
- The compilers and static analysis tool chains for third party agents and services
- Build an effective system that translates a given command to meaningful executions
- Create a shared software platform to make it easier for supporting AI teams to add their latest state of the art solutions to the platform
- Improve and iterate existing internal software engineering best practices and workflow
Required Skills:
- An engineer with 2+ years of experience in managing cloud based software systems
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field required, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Thorough understanding of enterprise class software architectures and technologies, including Cloud, Enterprise Architecture and Micro Services
- Excellent Java programming skills
- Excellent software engineering skills: comfortable designing, writing, maintaining, and debugging truly production-quality code
- Experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit
- Expert at design patterns and Object-oriented programming
- Strong knowledge of design patterns and scalable architecture
- Ability to create self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
- Must have hands-on experience working with database engines such as MySQL and Postgres
- Experience with cloud services like AWS
- Good understanding of Elastic Search and streaming queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with CI / CD platforms like Jenkins, Github actions and Circle CI
- Knowledge about deployment processes and writing bash scripts
- Passionate about our vision and want to collaborate with our team to build the next generation AI platform
- Previous experience working on AI assistant-based platform
- You can hold a technical discussion with peer engineers as well as a user experience discussion with product owners
Special Attributes:
- Professional background related to designing and implementing cloud based software systems
- You write code, love coding and even after years of experience, find writing code as your calling
- Comfortable triaging and resolving high-priority or time-sensitive production issues by providing the right solution
- Based on your experience, you can recommend changes in architecture and adoption of new technologies to help improve the system
- Communicate well and work optimally with others, and have a strong work ethic
- Comfortable with high degrees of freedom and responsibility
- Innovative and be a step ahead of the competition
- Not shy to recommend software engineering best practices and your technical opinions both within and across teams
Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The base pay range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the base pay range, individual rates depend on a number of factors—including the role’s function and location as well as the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.
Base Pay Range
$126,200—$173,450 USD
Additional Information
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Essential Job Functions
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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What We Do
Founded in October 1988, Samsung Research America (SRA) builds upon Samsung’s 40-year history in the Bay Area. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices across the United States and Canada, SRA is engaged in researching emerging technology to create new businesses and developing core technology to enhance the competitiveness of Samsung products. We also play a key role in providing the infrastructure to support Samsung’s open innovation and university collaboration activities.
