Software Engineer, User Interface & Web Services
Sanctuary AI
Software Engineering, Design
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join our UI and Web Services team to help build our robot control and monitoring console. This Software Engineer role will include full-stack development of web services and applications, deployment, testing, analytics, reporting, and control.
This is a highly complex system with many varying use cases and workflows, and includes extensive interfacing with the robotics team to expose and visualize the internal state and functionality of the system using video, text, 2D, and 3D graphics. Ultimately your efforts will contribute to enhancing our human-robot interface.
Our Success Criteria
- Gain cutting-edge career experience focusing on streaming services, IoT, human-computer interaction
- Design, build, and deploy large-scale streaming services and distributed applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement innovative solutions for robot navigation and user interaction
- Achieve company-wide visibility as you partner with leaders to ensure smooth deployment and configuration, provide technical support to end users, and structure/update technical documentation
- 5+ years of full-stack web development experience
- Fluency with Python, Typescript, or equivalent, and comprehensive knowledge of engineering practices
- Understanding the fundamentals of computer science, data structures, and operating systems
- Ability to design, implement, and test in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and Cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience building highly scalable distributed systems in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with leading System and API design (modularity, scalability, and reliability)
- A track record of technical excellence and successful projects under minimal supervision
- Experience in mentoring and leading other engineers
- Experience with 3D rendering and streaming video delivery
- The successful candidate will be a proponent of individual personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
- Empathetic listener with conflict resolution capabilities
- Strong communicator and interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently
- Mission driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to machines
Your Experience
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Working at Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
Benefits
Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, 12 paid holidays, 5 days of annual sick leave, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.
About Sanctuary
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.
