Member of Technical Staff (AI Supportability)
cockroachlabs
Job Description
- Experimental mindset: You're energized by ambiguous problems, rapid prototyping, and discovering solutions through data-driven experimentation
- Applied AI/ML work: Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and model evaluation through professional work, significant side projects, or deep technical exploration
- Strong programming skills: Proficiency in Go, Python or similar languages, with ability to quickly learn new technologies and APIs
- Data and systems experience: Comfort working with large-scale structured data, APIs, observability tools, logs, metrics, and distributed systems concepts
- Greenfield experience: Background building new products, prototypes, or research projects where the solution path wasn't predefined
- Embedded collaboration experience: Experience working directly with internal stakeholders, gathering requirements, and iterating based on user feedback
- Technical communication: Ability to explain complex experimental results and technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Ideally 4+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on AI/ML work, but we prioritize your ability to learn, experiment, and deliver measurable results
- BE/B-Tech/M-Tech in Computer Science or equivalent experience