Summary

At Semandex, we are dedicated to creating innovative products and solutions that help our customers derive actionable intelligence from documents, images, video, and sensor observations faster than ever before.

We are seeking a software engineer with strong Python development experience and deep expertise in AI/ML, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Computer Vision. The ideal candidate should have extensive and hands-on experience designing, implementing, testing and scaling Python software, as well as a broad knowledge of AI/ML algorithms and applications.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Understanding the functional requirements of the software and exploring available options to enable the functionalities
• Monitoring the new research and public domain models in the area of Small/Large
• Language Models (LLM), Computer Vision and other Multimodal models
• Presenting and discussing proposed approaches with the team and arriving at the best viable option
• Designing and implementing the designed Python microservices
• Testing and deploying the services as part of the overall software
• Documenting the research and relevant data
• Collaborating with the team and contributing to a learning environment

Requirements

Must Have

• 5-7 years of experience in Kotlin, Java, Typescript/Javascript. Should know the JVM and the ecosystem of supporting tools inside and out
• Proficient with either MongoDB or ElasticSearch or both
• Strong familiarity with frameworks Jackson, JAX-RS, Jersey, REST API principles, kotest, gradle etc.
• Strong desire to learn new technologies on-the-go and adopting them for new projects
• High degree of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through launch Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and management for collecting requirements, identifying tasks, providing estimates and meeting production deadlines
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Must have

• US Citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance
• 2-5 years of hands-on experience with Python development
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Data Science or related fields
• Strong familiarity with ML libraries: Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, spaCy
• Knowledge of LLM frameworks (Langchain, Llamaindex) and LLM providers (sglang, vLLM, OpenAI)
• Experience developing in environments like Jupyter, Google Colab notebooks, Matplotlib, Plotly, and geoplotlib
• Familiarity with transformer architectures, embedding models, transfer learning, fine tuning
• Understanding of statistical methods and machine learning techniques (e.g., clustering, regression, neural networks, deep learning)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief technical and mission stakeholders
• Occasional travel to customer locations required

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Agentic AI frameworks like langgraph and MCP core concepts and modern RAG workflows
• Knowledge of the NLP techniques (TF-IDF, Bag of Words (BOW), NER, POS tagging)
• Experience with distributed data/computing tools (Spark, Hive, MongoDB, MapReduce)
• Familiarity with modern microservices architectures and cloud environments e.g. Docker, AWS, GCP, Jenkins, Teamcity
• Master’s degree in Computer Science/Data Science or related field

Benefits

• Possibility of remote/hybrid work
• Medical, dental and vision coverage, FSA
• Company matched 401K
• Gym membership program
• Tuition assistance

Semandex is an equal opportunity employer.