BLACKBIRD.AI protects organizations from narrative attacks that cause financial and reputational harm. Our Constellation AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform – identifies key narratives that impact an organization/industry, the influence behind them, the networks they touch, the anomalous bot behavior that scales them, and the cohorts and communities that connect them. This information enables organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird.AI to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats.

As a Senior/Principal Software Engineer reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will not only optimize data pipelines for our advanced real-time streaming cloud-hosted analytics platform but also lead the development of new features and capabilities. Your role will be pivotal in shaping the future of our platform, offering the chance to solve some of the most challenging data problems in the industry. You will be the key driver of our collection, analysis, and visualization processes and will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform.

This Engineer will also work with our AI research and development team and be responsible for a broad range of cutting-edge applications in machine learning, addressing critical challenges impacting businesses, governments, and society.

This Engineer’s responsibilities will also encompass writing ETL processes, designing database systems, and developing tools for query and analytic processing, all focusing on real-time streaming applications. Additionally, you will elevate performance tradeoffs, own the database architecture, and lead build automation, continuous integration, and deployment efforts while ensuring adherence to security requirements.

As a Senior/Principal Software Engineer, you’ll have the chance to:

• Design and implement real time distributed data processing systems analyzing public data and detecting emergent threats.
• Focus on research and development in information extraction, multilingual NLP, automated summarization, graph network analysis, Computer visions, and LLMs (Large Language Models).
• Oversee the gathering and annotating of large custom datasets for tasks like text or vision classification, unsupervised pre-training, translation, tagging, and related challenges.
• Apply your knowledge of machine learning performance evaluation techniques, recognizing failure modes and limitations in the process.
• Lead and manage the development and optimization of ETL processes for various data formats from social media, news, and web sources.
• Design and implement robust database systems and develop tools for query and analytic processing, focusing on real-time streaming applications.
• Conduct performance analysis and empirical studies, making strategic decisions on tradeoffs (e.g., cost vs. throughput/latency).
• Develop, manage, and oversee the database architecture for our real-time streaming cloud-hosted analytics platform.
• Spearhead build automation, continuous integration, deployment, and performance optimization efforts, upholding our strict security requirements.
• Drive the project management, leading the development of new features and capabilities.
• Design test suites and implement inline instrumentation to ensure data correctness.
• Design secure and scalable REST APIs.