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Software Engineer, MLOps - Aarki
2 years ago
About Skillz:
Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.
The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $86 billion last year to $161 billion in 2025.
As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, and distributes millions in prizes each month.
Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.
Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work, Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement high-performance pipelines for training and deploying machine learning models, e.g.
- Ingest, validate, and combine multiple sources of data; implement caching and version control
- Manage worker cluster training hundreds of ML models in parallel
- Package and distribute ML models to thousands of bidder processes operating under strict latency requirements
- Design and implement monitoring systems to audit machine learning models
- Analyze system performance relative to various key metrics and establish a framework for fast iterative development
Required skills
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Strong working knowledge of math and computer science fundamentals
- Strong working knowledge of algorithms, computational complexity, performance
- Experience with databases and SQL
- Experience working in Linux/Unix environments
Good to have
- Experience with machine learning, data modeling, and visualization in Python, R, or other languages
- Experience with Rust, C++, C#, Java, or Scala
- Experience with parallel computing and “big data” frameworks (e.g. Spark)
- Experience with data warehousing systems and MPP databases
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with CI (continuous integration)
- Familiarity with network and system administration of high throughput/high load environments
Education
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or another technical field
- Master’s or Ph. D. preferred
Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .
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