- New York, New York, United States
- Hybrid
- Temporary · Senior
- $80–$90 per hour
- 5+ years
Senior Software Engineer focused on developing LLM-backed applications for The New York Times’ journalism mission.
Compensation
The hourly rate of base pay for this role is: $79.67—$90.11 USD
Responsibilities
- Design and implement LLM-backed APIs – driving improvements to reach target outcomes through evaluation, grounding and fine-tuning best practices.
- Deploy reliable services within cloud environments (such as GCP or AWS) to support high-traffic LLM applications.
- Manage the transition of features from experimental prototypes to stable production systems in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers and stakeholders to translate detailed requirements into technical tasks, providing accurate estimates and progress updates.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation to facilitate feature handoff and future maintenance.
Requirements
- Nice to have: GCP
- Nice to have: AWS
- Nice to have: AWS Step Functions
- Nice to have: Google Cloud Workflows
- Nice to have: Dagster