About Phaidra\n\nPhaidra is building the future of industrial automation.\n\nThe world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades.\n\nPhaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically:\n\n\n* We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions.\n\n* We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning.\n\n* We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i.e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.\n\n\n\n\nOur team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact.\n\nPhaidra is based in the USA but 100% remote; we do not have a physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is currently located throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Norway, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and India.\n\n**Please only apply to one opening. If you are a better fit for another opening, our team will move your application. Candidates who apply to multiple openings will not be considered.**\nWho You Are\n\nWe are looking for a very experienced Software Engineer with a focus on MLOps tech leadership to be a part of our growing AI Platform team. You are bold and creative, and have deep empathy for customers. You will design and implement significant parts of the code base and will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work and guide the product and team as we grow.\n\nYou are curious and like to understand technologies and their tradeoffs in depth - providing technical guidance to the team and peers as and when required. Leading by example, you have accumulated a wealth of insights and experiences from your hands-on involvement in the field, and you are committed to rolling up your sleeves and getting work done. You like joining and supporting other engineers in their work to learn from them as well as letting them benefit from your expertise and experience.\n\nYou have the motivation and skills to identify technical product needs, initiate projects and owning their delivery, including the involvement of engineering peers as needed. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo respectfully to drive and deliver technical excellence in the team.\n\n\n* We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA/Canada/UK/EU\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\nThe AI Platform team you are joining is responsible for building the core platform that powers model training, inference and decision making in our products. Furthermore the team owns MLOps and the services hosting our AI capabilities. Productionizing results from Research, as well as extending our systems and providing support according to our customer needs fall into team responsibilities as well. You will join this team as a very experienced engineer with a focus on MLOps solutions to grow our expertise in that area, but also contribute as a software engineer more widely in the team.\n\nAs an organization, we strongly believe in expertise across the stack. As such, you will experience flavors of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, MLOps and DevOps.\n\nIn particular, you will:\n\n\n* Design, build and lead the MLOps initiatives and vision for the AI Platform to strengthen automation, orchestration, versioning, observability, monitoring and collaboration for the platform.\n\n* Build and design scalable components for the AI Platform to allow high throughput training and inference for RL agents doing realtime inference for autonomous control of industrial systems.\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST & gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.\n\n* Design clear, extensible software interfaces for the team's customers and maintain a high release quality bar.\n\n* Perform DevOps duties of CI/CD, Release & Deployment management.\n\n* Be a part of our global production oncall team and, own & operate your services in production, meeting Phaidra’s high bar for operational excellence.\n\n* Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers and TPM across teams.\n\n* Mentor your peers and be a technical role-model in the team.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days…\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days…\n\n\n* You will get a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will meet with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will complete the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n* You will take ownership for the MLOps work on the team, identify gaps and propose roadmap items on the topic.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 90 days…\n\n\n* You will be fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will have a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will complete your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will start to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra and the team.\n\n* You will take proactively drive MLOps topics in the team and represent it technically throughout the company.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 10+ years of work experience.\n\n* Proven record on impact as a Tech Leader and bar-raiser for ambitious Software Engineering teams\n\n* Strong experience on designing and implementing MLOps solutions for AI production systems\n\n* Extensive experience with platform Software Engineering with the ability to contribute on all levels as an individual contributor and tech leader\n\n* Strong expertise on building, operating and monitoring large scale multi-tenant systems with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and metrics collection\n\n* Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling\n\n* Strong expertise in Python and Cloud environments\n\n* Very good grasp of Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) fundamentals\n\n* Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting\n\n* Doing your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Experience with building applications that can be deployed in cloud, as well as in hybrid or on-prem environment\n\n* Exposure to Reinforcement Learning or other in-depth knowledge on modern ML applications\n\n* Experience with industrial applications, industrial control systems, IoT, sensor time series applications, or similar\n\n\n\nRelevant Technologies from our Stack\n\n\n* Python, Go\n\n* PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning\n\n* Ray.io, Prefect, mlflow\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Grafana Cloud, Prometheus\n\n* Poetry, Pants\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* \n\nMeeting with Operations (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, discuss what you are looking for in a new position and cover formalities around your application.\n\n\n* \n\nTech Lead interview (60 minutes): This interview is a combination of technical and cultural fit assessment. We will cover your technical experience and the skills as an engineer and a tech lead while discussing projects that you have worked on in the past. You will meet the manager for the role as well as our VP of Engineering, with the opportunity to ask any questions about the team, role and engineering at Phaidra.\n\n\n* \n\nML system design & SRE (90 minutes): In this interview, we will go over a real world MLOps problem. You can expect to draw architecture diagrams using boxes & arrows in your browser. We will talk about system design, scalability and monitoring\n\n\n* \n\nML interview (60 minutes): This interview will focus on Machine Learning approaches, algorithms and theory. You will be asked about ML algorithms you are familiar with, how they work under the hood and how to use them in an applied setting.\n\n\n* \n\nCulture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values and the mutual cultural fit.\n\n\n\nBase Salary\n\n\n* US Residents: $156,000-$234,000/year\n\n* UK Residents: £108,000-£162,000/year\n\n\n\n\nSalary ranges for EU countries will vary based on the market rate for the location.\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation.\nBenefits & Perks\n\n\n* Fast-paced and team-oriented environment where you will be instrumental in the direction of the company.\n\n* Phaidra is a 100% remote company with a digital nomad policy.\n\n* Competitive compensation & equity.\n\n* Outsized responsibilities & professional development.\n\n* Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.\n\n* Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).\n\n* Unlimited paid time off, with a minimum of 20 days off per year requirement.\n\n* Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).\n\n* Home office setup allowance and company MacBook.\n\n* Monthly remote work stipend.\n\n\n\nOn being Remote\n\nWe are thoughtful about remote collaboration. We look to the pioneers - like Gitlab - for inspiration and best practices to create a stellar remote work environment. We have a documentation-first culture and actively practice asynchronous communication in everything we do. Our team stays connected through tools like Slack and video chat. Most teams meet daily, and we have dedicated all-hands meetings bi-weekly to build strong relationships. We hold virtual team building events once per month - and even hold virtual socials to watch rocket launches! We have a yearly in-person, all-company summit in locations like Seattle, Athens, Goa, and Barcelona.\nEqual Opportunity Employment\n\nPhaidra is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Phaidra is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. We welcome diversity and strive to maintain an inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance with completing the application process, please contact us at [email protected].\nE-Verify Notice\n\nPhaidra participates in E-Verify, an employment authorization database provided through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA). As required by law, we will provide the SSA and, if necessary, the DHS, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization for those residing in the United States.\n\nAdditional information about E-Verify can be found here.\n\n#LI-Remote\n\nWE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM RECRUITERS.\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, Cloud, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States

\nThe opportunity\n\n\nWe’re looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to elevate Chord as the leader in customer data platforms. You’ll join a growing team that is building a platform to empower modern and omnichannel brands with smart technology, unique customer experiences, and insightful data.\n\n\nIn this role, you will be responsible for building Chord’s storefront data SDK, which captures customer behavior on merchant’s ecommerce stores and feeds it into our data warehouse. You will also have an opportunity to expand our data reporting and administration portal, where merchants view key performance metrics necessary to grow their revenue. \n\n\nThis is a perfect opportunity for engineers who thrive on big data problems; using data to generate insights that lead to actions. As an early-stage technology startup, you will have an opportunity to influence the culture and practices of the Engineering team. You will have an instrumental role in the design and implementation of our flagship products. If you’re curious, willing to learn, humble, and a good team player, you’ll be at home here at Chord. \n\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be a key member of the Engineering team and will report to the Engineering Manager. You will work in a group with senior and principal engineers responsible for the end-to-end development of Chord’s software products. You will also regularly collaborate with members of our Product and Customer Success teams to contribute to product design and support customers.\n\n\nChord offers advanced technology for modern brands that want amazing customer experiences and unified data without a large engineering team. We like to think of our product as the tech engine for high-velocity e-commerce growth. Backed by top investors, Chord is a SaaS company led by industry veterans, and we’re seeking smart, focused, creative talent to help us realize our vision. \n\n\nOur company is proudly remote-first, distributed across North America. \n\n\n\nAs a Full-Stack Engineer, you will:\n* Design, build, and grow our proprietary storefront data capture SDK.\n* Design, build, and grow our analytics and data management platform.\n* Support projects to launch customers onto Chord’s platforms.\n* Analyze and resolve technical issues that arise during production operations.\n* Contribute to technical design discussions and proposals that improve our team's culture, processes, or architecture.\n* Collaborate within a cross-functional project and operations team to execute product plans and achieve company goals.\n* Learn and practice Chord’s engineering principles through pairing sessions with developers.\n* Support the growth of engineers around you.\n* Contribute to tutorials and documentation that our customers will love using.\n\n\n\nTo be successful in this role, you’ll need: \n* A reputation for being inclusive, curious, entrepreneurial, and thoughtful.\n* Proficiency in Javascript and Typescript.\n* Experience working with Node and React/Redux-based frameworks.\n* Skill in authoring and maintaining GraphQL or RESTful-based APIs. \n* Expertise in writing tests with tools such as Jest, Cypress, and React Testing Library.\n* Experience publishing and maintaining JS libraries. \n* Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools like Github, Sentry, and CircleCI.\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n* Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and common frameworks/integrations such as Solidus, RSpec, FactoryBot.\n* DevOps experience with Heroku, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).\n* Experience creating metrics and monitors in Datadog.\n* Experience with static website libraries such as Gatsby and NextJS.\n* Skill in building integrations using middleware platforms such as Segment.\n* Background working with payment processors such as Stripe and Braintree.\n* Familiarity with modern CMS systems like Contentful or Sanity. \n* Hands-on experience with complex ecommerce experience is a big plus. \n\n\n\nWorking at Chord, you can expect: \n* An investment in your physical and mental well-being; we offer 100% employee Medical Benefits coverage, with 69% dependant coverage. \n* Flexible PTO; we encourage you to take the time you need to be your best self at work. \n* An onboarding package and annual work from home stipend to ensure you have everything you need to be successful while working remote. \n* Generous Parental Leave with customizable transition back to work program.\n* To make an impact! We’re an early-stage company, which means there is space to champion ideas, and create and lead initiatives at any level in the Organization. \n* The benefits of working from home, with opportunities to spend quality time with the team at Chord in-person events throughout the year.\n\n\n\n\n$145,000 - $170,500 a yearThis is the expected salary range for US-based employment. \nThis is a full-time, salaried position that includes Equity. We set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies in our market. This salary range represents the full salary range for the position. The starting base pay offered may vary depending on factors including experience, expertise, market demands, and internal parity. \n\nAbout your application and the interview process\n\n\nChord is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position, we still encourage you to apply. \n\n\nOur interview process for the role begins with an exploratory conversation with the Hiring Manager. After that, we’ll invite you to a Zoom session with a range of stakeholders from across our organization. We aim to get to know you and allow you to learn more about our team and product while being respectful of your time. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, React, GraphQL, Testing, DevOps, JavaScript, Node, Ruby, API, Senior, Engineer and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York, New York