About Nervana

Nervana provides "AI on demand". Businesses use our Nervana Cloud platform to create and deploy solutions that include natural language processing, image recognition, computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence. We specialize in "deep learning", which is the technology that powers Apple's Siri, Facebook face recognition, and Google's self-driving cars and AlphaGo. The space is white hot right now! A bit more about Nervana:

Closed a $20M+ Series A round last year from DFJ, Allen & Company, and others.
Offices in both San Diego and in the ultra-cool Playground space in Palo Alto.
Current customers in industries such as agribusiness, financial services, health services, automotive, and the intelligence community.

Find out more about Nervana at www.nervanasys.com.

What you will be working on

Implementing the backend software driving our cloud based MLaaS platform
Developing a scalable distributed framework supporting long running jobs over large datasets and specialized resources (GPU's, ASIC's)
Designing and maintaining a high-throughput, low-latency RESTful API
Ensuring the platform remains secure, fast, and stable
Interacting closely with other teams to translate end-user and internal application requirements into reliable features

Who we are looking for

5+ years experience designing and building large scale backend systems in Python
Strong CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures
Expertise with these--or similar--technologies: Flask, Django, HTCondor, Mesos, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Docker
Well-versed in AWS services like RDS, VPC, EBS, S3, EC2, and ELB
Bonus points for prior experience with front-end web design, machine learning, GPU programming

Nervana benefits

Medical plans: Health, vision, dental
Life insurance and 401k plans
Flexible work schedule
Great stock options
Each engineer gets a top of the line Macbook Pro and access to the fastest GPU clusters
Annual company retreat
Small teams
Fun office spaces with many toys!
Our Palo Alto office is a part of Playground Global & our San Diego office is 10 minutes from beautiful beaches
Free healthy snacks and beverages

Cloud Software Engineer