Sr Software Developer (NewSpeedDoctor)

SAS Institute - Cary, NC

Full-time - Senior

Cary, NC

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr Software Developer at NewSpeedDoctor will play a crucial role in enhancing SAS analytics through innovative software development. This position involves collaborating with diverse analytics teams to tackle complex problems, develop high-speed analytic sub-routines, and implement advanced algorithms in a distributed computing environment. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented setting, focusing on performance optimization and contributing to the development of cutting-edge analytics solutions.

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
• Work on revising and/or implementing 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
• Experience writing performant analytic routines in C/C++
• Knowledge and experience in Quantum Computing with an emphasis on optimization algorithms
• Experienced with automated performance benchmarking strategies
• A high-level understanding of most machine learning algorithms
• Background in logistic regression, support vector machines, decision trees, gradient boosting, random forest, PCA, etc.
• Background in mixed-integer optimization and large-scale nonlinear optimization
• Understanding of derivative-free optimization algorithms
• 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
• Volunteer Time Off
• Parental leave
• Unlimited paid sick days
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees