Senior Software Engineer, Podman AI Lab

Podman Desktop team is looking for a senior software engineer  to join its distributed team of software and quality engineers as the team expands. New areas of work are largely AI related, like support of the InstructLab project to build an Open Source based AI approach to training Granite LLM, expansion of the AI applications set, and support of various new Red Hat products like RHEL AI and Openshift AI..

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer with knowledge and experience in both front end developement and AI, machine learning, or deep learning technologies. You will join a very strong team, and be part of a successful project covering new technologies and products.

What you will do

• Help expand and maintain Podman Desktop and AI Lab code base as more AI features are added to the AI Lab plugin.

• Debugging, implementing features, writing patches, tests, reviewing other people's PRs.

• Help with releases and documentation when needed.

• Being part of the upstream, engage with the community like answering on the public channel and commenting on issues.

What you will bring

• Proficiency in Typescript or JavaScript language.

• Some practical experience with AI, Large Language  Models

• Experience developing container based applications

• Experience contributing in an upstream open source project.

• Strong self-motivation and organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

The following is considered a plus:

• Experience with Linux, bash, containers or Kubernetes.

• Experience as maintainer of an Open Source project.

• Familiarity with participating in an agile development team.

• Maintenance of an AI based application

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