Sr Software Developer (Analytics Performance Engineer)

Samsung - Cary, NC

Full-time - Senior

Cary, NC

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About the position

The Sr Software Developer role at SAS involves collaborating with diverse analytics teams to enhance SAS's advanced analytics capabilities. The position focuses on developing high-speed analytic sub-routines, tackling complex problems, and implementing innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment. The developer will work on proof of concept projects, engage in performance monitoring, and contribute to the development of algorithms that improve machine learning and optimization processes.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with diverse analytics teams at SAS
• Serve as tip of the spear on important proof of concept projects involving new technologies
• Tackle challenging problems that many feel are unsolvable
• Think outside of the box when solving problems
• Develop high-speed analytic sub-routines
• Become intimately familiar with profiling and memory monitoring tools
• Revise and/or implement Numa-aware CPU, GPU, and QPU adaptive hybrid algorithms
• Quickly come to speed on target elements of diverse analytical routines
• Present, publish, and patent whenever possible and beneficial to SAS
• Work on algorithms that may be computationally heavy
• Collaborate with other analytic teams to build and transform research projects into production-level features
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research or a related discipline
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer programming skills with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of linear algebra in relation to analytics
• Experience writing performant analytics routines in Python
• Experience developing in a distributed environment
• Background in popular machine learning optimization algorithms

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with popular profiling tools such as VTune
• Ability to quickly read and understand other teams' code
• Experience writing performant analytic routines in C/C++
• Knowledge and experience in Quantum Computing
• Experienced with automated performance benchmarking strategies
• High-level understanding of most machine learning algorithms
• Background in logistic regression, support vector machines, decision trees, gradient boosting, random forest, PCA
• Background in mixed-integer optimization
• Background in large-scale nonlinear optimization
• Understanding of derivative-free optimization algorithms
• Some experience serving as or aiding a system admin
• Experience leveraging and interfacing with libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK
• Experience writing NUMA-aware threaded CPU software
• Experience developing algorithms to exploit GPU

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans
• Industry-leading 401k plan
• Generous time away including vacation time and paid holidays
• U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1
• Volunteer Time Off
• Parental leave
• Unlimited paid sick days
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees