Company Description
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
We are seeking a Software Engineer to lead the development of innovative new systems and solutions making use of a rapidly changing landscape of generative AI.
This team is focused on proving the value of new tech and bringing it to production quickly. We are seeking a candidate well versed in designing, building and supporting API's, machine learning services and frameworks, LLMs, langchain, as well as foundational Database technologies. In addition, every member of this team will work at times across the stack.
Responsibilities:
- Create new business logic, leveraging RESTful API standards and best practices and patterns on the backend of our systems.
- Deploy and maintain databases and storage for our applications in both SQL and NoSQL styles.
- Design features that extend from the application user interface to underlying APIs.
- Uphold high standards of code quality through rigorous testing, adherence to code standards, and common sense testing.
- Have worked well with data scientists, business analysts and machine learning infrastructure to connect the dots between business and technology partners.
- Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices (e.g., training/serving, feature engineering, feature/model selection, imbalance data, RAG patterns) and algorithms (e.g., deep learnings, optimization)
- Develop automated tests for your code, ensuring every function, service, and object is compatible with your team's work and with the many systems within the NBCUniversal system portfolio as well as ensuring cross-device and browser compatibility.
- Create documentation for developers as well as business users to help them understand our products.
- Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team within a matrixed organization, leveraging strong interpersonal skills to navigate system complexities and deploy solutions efficiently.
- Deploy to cloud-based platforms and troubleshoot application, cloud, and configuration issues when necessary.
- Utilize tools for code & test generation to dramatically accelerate the delivery of features and components you create.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in backend or fullstack development, demonstrated through a comprehensive portfolio and related experience.
- Proven capability to bring a basic application from idea to delivery without requiring support from others.
- Experience with Python for application development, AWS, database systems, and SQL
- Experience with the Python ecosystem, including tools for build, test and deployment
- Ability to work with ambiguity.
- Ability to think critically about problems, decipher user preferences versus strict requirements, and effectively use online and onsite resources to find appropriate solutions
- Basic understanding of backend technologies and RESTful services, with practical experience in integrating and consuming APIs in front-end projects.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to an agile development environment, quickly incorporating feedback and adjusting to changing priorities.
- Ability to visualize architecture of a proposed system or service, draw it out, socialize it, and build it.
Desired Characteristics:
- Competent working in secured internal network environments and complex cloud networks setups
- Familiarity with integrating large language models and AI-generated content technologies into applications.
- Familiarity with the development ecosystem evolving around LLM integration, such as langchain.
- Proven adaptability in a fast-paced, evolving technology landscape, with a strong problem-solving ability and quick learning curve.
- Effective communication skills, capable of working collaboratively across diverse teams and navigating a large, matrixed organization efficiently.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear technical requirements
Additional Requirements:
- Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Salary range: $105,000 - $145,000
We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.
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What We Do
From film, television, news, theme parks, interactive media, and streaming, our people are at the center of it all. Here, we solve complex and business-critical problems. That’s why we’re looking for people to help us continue our evolution, imagining and delivering the most innovative and disruptive products and services through the latest tech advancements in the industry.
Here you can develop solutions. You’ll develop solutions that allow engineers to broadcast live TV from the comfort of their homes. These solutions will enable the use of our collection of hundreds of thousands of distinct intellectual properties across our film, television and streaming brands.
Here you can transform. You’ll make decisions and solve complex problems by leveraging insights that come from data, building AI to help enable solutions to optimize every aspect of our content eco-system.
Here you can build. You’ll build emerging immersive technologies that are used to power the broadcasts and streaming of global events like the Super Bowl and Olympics. You can create secure, elastic cloud-based services connecting parts of our global platform ecosystem that effect tens of millions of viewers, consumers and businesses that consume and love NBCUniversal’s content. And while you design, build and architect your career, we have the culture to make sure you’re supported.
Here you can work and still live your best life!
We’re leaders in our fields. We hire smart people and trust them to get the job done. We are never too busy to develop a fellow colleague. We understand our goals – or we ask. When we see something that needs doing – we do it. We make data-driven decisions. We fiercely believe in our talent and their growth. If you're ready to make an impact, here you can.
Why Work With Us
For us, it's more than just a work life. It's a daily passion. We take great pride in our legacy. We find fun in the challenge. We collaborate and inspire others. We're always creating, always solving and always ahead of competition.
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