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Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field and 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a Software Engineer-related occupation. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a Software Engineer-related occupation. Position requires 3 years of experience in the following: Algorithm design and data structure selection for system scalability; Software design and systems architecture for performance and reliability; Apply large language multimodal models to solve real world problems including system design, post-training, evaluation, and optimization; Software testing across the development lifecycle including validity, verification, performance, and reliability; and Root cause analysis for debugging software and ML systems.