Software Engineer

About the role

Assaia International AG provides AI-based software solutions for global airports and airlines. We were founded in February 2018 in Switzerland, headquartered in Zurich and New York and we have a fast-growing team located across Europe and North America. Assaia offers AI-based computer-vision solutions that monitor and analyse aircraft turnaround processes from video streams. Assaia’s solutions help airports and airlines improve on-time performance, efficiency, safety, and sustainability metrics, helping them get their passengers to their destinations on time. We work with aviation companies across the world including New York JFKIAT, Toronto Pearson, United Airlines, British Airways, London Heathrow and more.  See details and demos on our website and Linkedin! We are looking for a proactive Software Engineer to join our ML Core team to help us develop efficient and scalable ML pipelines. You will build frameworks and tooling for internal customers aimed to help them train, postprocess, and analyze ML models, as well as develop ML core logic in a real-time production system, bridging the gap between ML models creation and their end users. Develop and maintain backends and tooling for internal ML customers, including core ML pipelines for use in both offline internal processing and real-time production systems.
Work with ML researchers to adopt and optimize experimental ML pipelines, turning them into scalable mature solutions.
Maintain and optimize inference software infrastructure for both offline and real-time production use.
Participate in architecture discussions and communicate with other teams to identify their needs and potential to optimize their work through improvements in our pipelines and tooling. 
Strong production experience with Python.
Solid knowledge of software development best practices and understanding system design.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with: SQL, NoSQL, message brokers, web frameworks (Django, FastAPI or others).
Proactivity and ability to deliver new features by yourself while communicating with internal customers.
Ability to understand and navigate through existing codebases of different sizes and complexity.
Confident use of LLM-tools to write code.
Very good verbal and written English skills (at least B2+).
Nice to have Experience with things from our stack: Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery, Triton Inference Server, GitLab CI.
Experience or curiosity about ML domain.
Assaia is a unique place where you can work on a technically advanced and innovative product for an exciting and important industry. You will be working in a diverse international team of smart people who can learn a lot from each other – all this without leaving your home – or sunbed, if you wish!  Your input will be valuable and we actively ask everyone to share their thoughts and ideas to help steer the direction of the company’s development. Additionally, we offer: Participation in making important decisions, your ideas will be heard and implemented.
Always remote work and a flexible schedule.
Paid vacation, paid sick leaves.
Paid relevant courses/online education.
Great company culture based on honesty and mutual respect.
Live team events.
We are a team of 120 now. We are looking forward to expanding it with you!