About the Job:
Sama is actively seeking an experienced Implementation Engineer with a strong background in Python and a foundational understanding of AI. This role is designed to help our customers fully exploit our data annotation services. As an Implementation Engineer at Sama, you are a hands-on engineer who thrives on working directly with our Product and Global Service Delivery teams, as well as other stakeholders, to tackle complex technology issues in the cloud and AI space. As a member of the Solutions team, your focus will be on ensuring that your innovative cloud and AI solutions provide a seamless experience for our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Sales, Account Managers, and Delivery teams to implement & deliver customer solutions
- Be a technical product expert in all things Sama-related
- Understand intricate customer/internal requirements when designing solutions for customers
- Build, deploy and support solutions or integrations
- Ability to simplify technical solutions and make it consumable for non-technical stakeholders
- Problem-solving often when the problem is ambiguous
- Design solutions that artfully balance the symbiosis between technology and humanity
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3-6 years of experience as a Software Engineer, or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Relevant experience can substitute for a degree
- Solid understanding of programming fundamentals and agile development
- Proficiency in Python
- Relevant experience with other programming languages can be substituted (i.e.: Rust, JavaScript, C#)
- Familiarity with designing web and cloud-based applications
- Strong communication skills, organizational skills
- Ability to prioritize and balance multiple challenges at once
- Willingness to support the global team and be available during various time zones
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.
- 2-3 years of experience designing, deploying and maintaining cloud applications at scale
- Deep commitment to building an ethical, world-class company with technology at its core
About Sama
Sama provides high-quality training data that powers AI technology for Fortune 2000 companies such as Google, Walmart, Ford, Microsoft, and Marriott. We’re experts in data curation and data annotation for 2D and 3D image, video, and sensor data for machine learning algorithms.. Sama offers the highest quality SLAs in the industry, along with cutting-edge ML-assisted annotation tools, QA processes, and security and compliance standards.
Founded in 2008 on the belief that “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not”, Sama is driven by the mission to expand opportunities for those who are underprivileged. As a certified B-corp, Sama has provided worker training programs to increase economic opportunity for more than 13,000 people from underserved communities. By connecting our customers with amazing talent in East Africa, we've impacted more than 59,000 workers and their dependents.
Today, our vision is to provide data scientists, ML engineers, and data operations teams with an indispensable, integrated platform for AI data preparation, labeling, and collection.
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Our Culture:
Sama is quite unique. We are a technology company with a social mission. People that thrive in a high-growth environment, love working on the bleeding edge of technology, and really care about having a positive impact on the world are a great fit for the Sama culture. Our core values are One Team, One Goal - Deliver. Period. - Trust & Transparency - Customer First - Humanity.
Our Benefits:
Sama offers competitive compensation commensurate with experience and a full benefits package, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance, long-term disability insurance, life, and AD&D insurance, employer-matching Group RRSP (Canada) and 401K (US), generous holiday and vacation policies, sabbaticals, a monthly fitness stipend, and professional development opportunities.
At Sama, we pride ourselves in being a diverse and equal opportunity employer.