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Software Co-op: Web Services (January 2024 term)

Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on Oct 6, 2023
Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary–a multi award-winning LinkedIn Top Startup company–is seeking a Web Services Software Engineer focused on UI/UX development. Reporting to the Web Services Team Lead, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the design, architecture, and implementation of our platform and machine learning systems that power our general-purpose robots.
The best candidates for this role are eager to learn and develop UI/UX technical skills utilizing React, open-source JavaScript library while gaining industry experience. Ultimately, you'll be a valued part of the team as you learn and adapt to new, complex development environments and own solutions from design to deployment by expanding web services to support our web-based UI/UX for robot monitoring and control.

Our Success Criteria

  • Bring hands-on experience working with high-performing teams on academic group projects and/or internships
  • Gain cutting-edge career experience working with team members to gather requirements and develop a backend to support UI and UX designs
  • Expand your career capabilities as you refine, build, deploy, and monitor our solution, ensuring that services and UI work together as a coherent unit
  • Achieve company-wide visibility as you design, and develop reusable components using React, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS, or other browser-based technologies
  • Your Experience
    Qualifications:
  • Pursuing or completing a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, testing, and operations
  • Ability to design, implement, and test in a fast-paced environment
  • Skills:
  • Competency in writing software in languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C++ or similar
  • Familiarity with REST, MQTT, or other standard web service standards
  • Understanding of fundamentals of computer science, compilers and operating systems, data structures, and networking
  • Traits:
  • Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
  • Optimistic listening and conflict resolution capabilities
  • Demonstrated ability to influence others without authority
  • Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
  • Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
  • Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines
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. In 2023, Sanctuary moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
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.