Senior Software Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

Bloomberg’s Engineering AI department has 400+ AI practitioners building highly sought after products and features that often require novel innovations. We are investing in AI to build better search, discovery, and workflow solutions using technologies such as transformers, gradient boosted decision trees, large language models, and dense vector databases. We are expanding our group and seeking highly skilled individuals who will be responsible for contributing to the team (or teams) of Machine Learning (ML) and Software Engineers that are bringing innovative solutions to AI-driven customer-facing products. 

At Bloomberg, we believe in fostering a transparent and efficient financial marketplace. Our business is built on technology that makes news, research, financial data, and analytics on over 35 million financial instruments searchable, discoverable, and actionable across the global capital markets.

Bloomberg has been building Artificial Intelligence applications that offer solutions to these problems with high accuracy and low latency since 2009. We build AI systems to help process and organize the ever-increasing volume of structured and unstructured information needed to make informed decisions. Our use of AI uncovers signals, helps us produce analytics about financial instruments in all asset classes, and delivers clarity when our clients need it most.

Our engineers are responsible for architecting and implementing machine learning systems end-to-end, overcoming unique challenges that come with such systems in the financial domain. Some projects where we are looking for experienced software engineers include unified search, question answering, query parsing, financial instrument (e.g., fixed income) pricing, dialogue understanding.  

Join the AI Group as a Senior Software Engineer and you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with colleagues on production machine learning systems and applications
• Design, experiment, and evaluate software systems
• Write, test, and maintain production-quality code
• Represent Bloomberg at conferences and open-source communities
• Demonstrate technical leadership by owning cross-team projects
• Build the libraries and frameworks that support fault tolerant and testable systems

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with:

• 7+ years of experience working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience 
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• An honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders and management