Lead Software Engineer - AI Enablement
Company: 84.51 -
Location: Cincinnati
Posted on: May 7, 2024
Job Description:
84.51 - Overview:
84.51 - is a retail data science, insights and media company. We
help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies,
publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable
experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.
Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data
from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the
Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric
journey using 84.51 - Insights, 84.51 - Loyalty Marketing and our
retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.
Join us at 84.51 -!
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer, AI Enablement to join our
AI Platform Acceleration team. The AI Platform Acceleration team
will enable AI democratization through apps & services and
asymmetric growth through embedding AI capabilities across our
business. The cross-functional talent will train and deploy
foundational models and sciences, establish an AI platform to
enable democratization and engaging with third party vendors to
enable speed, scale, and efficiency.
You will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing
cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions. You will
collaborate with cross-functional teams of Data Scientists,
Research Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Leads to
understand business requirements, identify opportunities for AI
integration, and ensure our platforms enable development of
scalable and robust AI systems. This role will be responsible for
partnering with 84.51 - teams to understand business requirements
in order to design, test and evolve a strategic prompting strategy
to guide AI responses. The successful candidate will be an
innovative, forward thinking technology leader with a relentless
focus on customers and inspiring people. They will be a natural
networker across roles and teams alike.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Execute the vision, goals, priorities and work alongside the
team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality technical solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members. Drive
the technical aspects of solutions where needed including proofs of
concepts, sizings, designs, implementation and testing.
- Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at
the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to
best practices.
- Design and implement effective prompts to guide AI responses
withing specific parameters.
- Conduct thorough testing and analysis of AI responses to
prompts, identifying areas for improvement.
- Iterate on prompt designs based on feedback and performance
metrics.
- Document prompt design processes and results for future
reference and knowledge sharing.
- Develop and maintain tooling frameworks to establish and
enforce best practices for effective prompting in AI-powered
solutions.
- Lead the technical vision and strategy for prompt engineering,
ensuring innovative and efficient approaches to drive excellence in
AI applications.
- Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and
enable technical skills development in support of high quality code
components, systems, and solutions.
- Work in partnership with Product and Architecture teams to
derive technical requirements from business requirements and
identify risk areas.
- Support recruitment and resource plans of the team to hire
great development talent; including; recruiting, interviewing, and
onboarding/training
- Escalate concerns to leadership, as needed, and remove
roadblocks for the team
- An advocate for 84.51 delivery methodology.
- Participate in and contribute to Agile team ceremonies;
including: Backlog Reviews, Retrospectives, Architectural Reviews,
team and system demos
- Lead and participate in Communities of Practice.
- Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and
execution QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's Degree or higher and relevant certifications in
technology and/or project management
- 5+ years of experience working in infrastructure/cloud and/or
software development
- 5+ years of experience using advanced algorithms, programming
languages, or technologies
- Strong knowledge and skill in cloud computing solutions,
technologies, and trends
- Hands-on experience in delivery and support of cloud services
in a hybrid or multi-cloud architecture using at least two major
cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
- Extensive, hands-on experience with modern software development
concepts such as CI/CD, service-oriented architecture,
infrastructure as code, and/or containerization
- Understanding of machine learning and AI principles and
development processes
- Strong experience leading and operating in a lean, agile
environment with distributed teams.
- Excellent communication skills, particularly on technical
topics.
- Comfort with independent learning of new technologies, and
willingness to jump into using unfamiliar tools
- High level of independence; ability to make time-sensitive
decisions rapidly and solve urgent problems without
escalation.
- Strong time and project management skills; the ability to
balance multiple, simultaneous work items and prioritize as
necessary.
- Demonstrated success in working collaboratively across
technology and governance roles to develop, implement, and operate
systems that improve processes & efficiencies, and support business
strategies. Desired Characteristics & Technical Skills:
- Experience with Azure, Azure AI Studio, GCP, Vertex AI
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps patterns and solutions
- Experience with Databricks, ML Flow
- Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Harness or related
tools
Important: We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an
employment Visa at this time for this position. Applicants must be
authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
This is a Hybrid position. Candidates must be able to come into the
office on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of each week. We have
locations in Cincinnati, OH, Chicago, IL, Deerfield, IL, New York,
NY, and Portland, OR.
There are no remote options for this position.
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