Staff Engineer - AI Technology

Role purpose

• We’re seeking a highly skilled and experience software and system architect to design and implement our AI Innovation Platform.  You will be responsible for designing and implementing a robust, scalable, and maintainable solution empowering our organization scale and innovate with AI.  This platform will support engineering teams across Syngenta to leverage resources from hyperscalers, internal Data Science teams, as well as building core reuseable services.
• You will work closely with our Product Manager, Product Designer, and Engineering teams to design the platform, define best practices, and guide technical decisions ensuring the overall quality and performance of the platform
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background as an Architect and experience implementing and using AI (LLM or otherwise) based solutions.

Accountabilities

• Lead the design and architecture of the AI Innovation Platform ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements and provide architectural guidance and support.
• Define and promote best practices for software development utilizing AI helping to upskill our teams with new design and architectural patterns.
• Stay up to date on latest trends and new technologies in the AI space, evaluate their potential to introduce into our ecosystem based on their potential impact.
• Work closely with Product and Business stakeholders to understand the needs of the business and engineering teams ensuring the platform meets the needs of the users.
• Define implementation approaches, algorithms, and code structures to meet requirements.
• Architect experience and responsibility includes defining, prototyping and recommending the technology solutions, detailing the implementation design and identifying interfaces with other products for integration.
• Derive architecturally significant software requirements both functional and quality attributes.
• Technical discussions with project partners in globally distributed team.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

• Experience with design patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and practices, including bounded contexts, domain models, and ubiquitous language.
• Familiarity with modern architecture patterns like serverless, microservices architecture patterns and best practices, including service decomposition, containerization, and orchestration with tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of implementing automation strategies for build, test, deployment, and monitoring processes, using tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI or similar.
• Deep understanding of performance optimization techniques for applications, including code profiling, caching strategies, and resource management.
• Experience defining and implementing quality matrices for projects, including code coverage, static code analysis, and automated testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, or Jasmine.
• Good expertise on any of the Cloud platform (preferably AWS).
• Abreast of latest AI technologies & tools and ability to evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies as per the requirement.
• Experience with scaling and performance of large systems and web applications.
• Graduate with 10 to 12 years of experience in design and development.
• Database solutions such as SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo / DynamoDB, etc.
• Strong in Object Oriented Programming concepts.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS) for deploying and managing JavaScript applications, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills. Knowledge with RESTful APIs / GraphQL APIs
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization and reviewing clean/maintainable code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Needs to be motivated, creative and curious, with a customer-centric mind-set
• Able to engage with business and technical leaders with confidence and integrity
• A clear and effective communicator both at a team level and senior stakeholder level
• Able to manage ambiguity and ensure expectations are set appropriately
• The ability to balance a dynamic workload and prioritize effectively
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and adapting to change
• Understand the main constraints and business objectives which our main stakeholder/business partners operate in

Innovations

Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participate in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets.

Syngenta is one of the world’s leading agriculture innovation company (Part of Syngenta Group) dedicated to improving global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 60,000 people in over 100 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.

A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace environment are enablers of our ambition to be the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture. Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet.

To learn more visit: www.syngenta.com

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Health and wellness benefits.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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