LinkedIn · 14 hours ago
Director, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$226K/yr - $369K/yr
5+ years expLinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. This role involves leading the AI Infrastructure team to create reliable AI and information retrieval systems, while collaborating with various leaders to drive the technical agenda and ensure the platform's performance and scalability.
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Responsibilities
Directly lead a team of 50+ engineers and managers, as well as embedded SREs and TPMs
Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, and business leaders across LinkedIn to drive the core technical agenda for this domain
Create highly available, reliable, and performant AI and information retrieval systems that are delightful for our ML Engineers to productively use
Ensure the distributed search platform must scale seamlessly across data and traffic, while enabling engineers to rapidly innovate, experiment and improve relevance
Enable any engineer within LinkedIn to use our platform to quickly build their own solution, searching their specific document corpus
Ensure the platform operates with performance, scalability and stability
Qualification
Required
5+ years of software engineering management experience
4+ years experience in one of the following areas: data infrastructure, search infrastructure, or ML platforms
B.A./B.S. degree or higher, or equivalent experience
Preferred
Good understanding of the nature of AI models and the complexity of serving them
Good understanding of the AI model development and validation processes
Hands on experience of developing large scale distributed systems
Experience attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering and operations talent throughout the industry
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Stock
Benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans
Company
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows users to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$154.8MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesGreylockSequoia Capital
2016-06-13Acquired
2016-02-15Private Equity
2014-04-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Ryan Roslansky
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Shapero
Chief Operating Officer
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