Software Engineer - Augment
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Location: San Francisco, CA 94112
Description:
Augment is a group of engineers, product designers, and customer champions applying the most transformative technology of our times, AI, to one of the largest industries in the world, logistics. In their prior lives, they have built multi-billion dollar companies with products that delighted thousands of merchants and powered billions of dollars of commerce.
They are looking for intelligent, driven people with insatiable curiosity and a desire to make an impact. If you're excited to build AI that can reason and take action, like humans, in one of the most complex industries in the world - apply below.
What You'll Do:
What They're Looking For:
Bonus Points For:
Tech Stack:
They are looking for intelligent, driven people with insatiable curiosity and a desire to make an impact. If you're excited to build AI that can reason and take action, like humans, in one of the most complex industries in the world - apply below.
What You'll Do:
- Build AI assistants for logistics by designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving pragmatic software.
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Be a full business owner: shape the foundation of the product and business that you work on.
- Actively learn new languages, techniques, and methodologies.
- Contribute actively to code reviews and design reviews.
What They're Looking For:
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of engineering experience.
- Extensive TypeScript, Python, or JavaScript experience.
- Someone who verifies their work through thorough unit testing and end-to-end testing.
- Experience shipping production code with full instrumentation: deployment, logging, and monitoring, and documentation.
- Experience processing large amounts of data.
- Experience with building and evolving REST APIs.
- Experience with distributed systems.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience building AI agentic applications.
- Experience with Open AI, Anthropic, Llama, and other leading LLMs and Cartesia, Eleven Labs voice models.
- Master's, PhD degree, further education, or experience in engineering, computer science, or other technical related field.
- Prior experience in Logistics, Freight brokerage, Shipping, and Warehouse technologies.
- Machine learning, operations research and optimization, developing large software systems, logistics & fulfillment industry, pricing algorithms, shipping technology.
- Rich GitHub or hackathon accolades or other ways you can show that you love to code.
Tech Stack:
- Independent Service Oriented Architectures with services composed of:
- Node, TypeScript, Python, MySQL RDS, SQS, SNS.
- React and Redux for UI.
- Run on AWS.