Software Engineer, Machine Learning

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Together Carbonite and Webroot form the SMB and Consumer Division of OpenText. The mission of our joint offering is to make cyber resilience simple, reliable and accessible in the connected world. We foster a thriving, dynamic environment rich with inventive minds and entrepreneurial spirit and our employees are empowered and encouraged to build their careers at OpenText.

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Location:  San Diego, CA

Webroot is seeking a software engineer to join their Machine Learning team.  The ideal candidate has excellent knowledge in quantitative analysis and or distributed system software development and design, DevOps principles and has strong programming skills in Python. In addition, knowledge of Data Science as well as Machine Learning is highly desirable.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain Webroot’s Machine Learning systems:
  • Data collection as well as data storage
  • Develop CI/CD workflows
  • Automate deployments
  • Supervise training of Machine Learning Models
  • Maintaining and assuring quality of published Models
• Research and develop new ML algorithms to improve cyber security:
  • Review Academic literature for emerging ML developments (e.g. new Network architectures) and their relevance to cyber security.
  • Develop prototypes to show value of new algorithms.
  • If applicable, implement derived application.
  • If applicable, publish/patent derived application.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science or advanced science/math degree involving quantitative/statistical analysis
• 3+ years professional experience

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Machine learning experience
• Data science experience
• Experience with and deep understanding of non-functional requirements (e.g. testability, scalability, maintainability, etc.)
• Strong background in distributed software development and software design
• Experience in designing and developing services, frameworks and APIs
• Experience with Git
• Experience with DevOps systems and processes
• Proficient in relational database development (MySQL, Oracle …)
• Experience in big data frameworks and tools (Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL …)
• Experience with AWS
• Strong knowledge and experience in Linux and Windows
• Strong experience in Python and one of the following languages: C#, C++, Java

Principals only - no third parties. 

At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.