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Sizzle is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. We’re looking for a superstar engineer that is well versed with AI and audio technologies around audio detection, speech-to-text, interpretation, and sentiment analysis.  

You will be responsible for:

Developing audio algorithms to detect key moments within popular online games, such as:

Streamer speaking, shouting, etc.

Gunfire, explosions, and other in-game audio events

Speech-to-text and sentiment analysis of the streamer’s narration

Leveraging baseline technologies such as TensorFlow and others -- and building models on top of them

Building neural network architectures for audio analysis as it pertains to popular games

Specifying exact requirements for training data sets, and working with analysts to create the data sets

Training final models, including techniques such as transfer learning, data augmentation, etc. to optimize models for use in a production environment

Working with back-end engineers to get all of the detection algorithms into production, to automate the highlight creation

You should have the following qualities:

Solid understanding of AI frameworks and algorithms, especially pertaining to audio analysis, speech-to-text, sentiment analysis, and natural language processing

Experience using Python, TensorFlow and other AI tools

Demonstrated understanding of various algorithms for audio analysis, such as CNNs, LSTM for natural language processing, and others

Nice to have: some familiarity with AI-based audio analysis including sentiment analysis

Familiarity with AWS environments

Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment

Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results

Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Skills:

Machine Learning, Audio Analysis, Sentiment Analysis, Speech-To-Text, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, TensorFlow, OpenCV, AWS, Python

Work Experience:  2 years to 10 years

About Sizzle

Sizzle is building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube videos. Presently, there are over 700 million fans around the world that watch gaming videos on Twitch and YouTube. Sizzle is creating a new highlights experience for these fans, so they can catch up on their favorite streamers and esports leagues. Sizzle is available at http://www.sizzle.gg">www.sizzle.gg. 

We're looking for an experienced and mature engineer (2-6 yrs experience), who wants to build incredible products while shaping the architecture, tools, and engineering culture of our company

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build our native Android application using Java or Kotlin.
• Set up our backend using either the MEAN (Mongo, Node) or Django stack.
• Collaborate with the design team on feasibility and design reviews.
• Set up DevOps processes - CI/CD and release management.
• Hire an additional backend engineer to scale the application based on requirements.

Requirements:

• You possess strong computer science fundamentals.
• You have native Android application development skills - with Java/Kotlin as a framework.
• You have strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• You have built backends for mobile applications - using the MEAN or Django stack.
• You have some mobile app projects that are worthy of public view (Play Store, Github).
• You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome open collaboration and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
• We’re a fast-paced environment so while we value robustness, we also hope for speed. You’ll hop from project to project and should be a self-starter.
• You are open to learning new stuff (important).
• You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback (important)

You’ll be our: Interaction Design Manager

You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

You’ll be aligned with: Customer Experience Lead

You’ll be the member of: Customer Experience Team

What you’ll do :

As a design leader, you will be working with Product managers, Experience managers and Engineering teams to define strategies and lead the creation of great unparalleled customer experiences

You will be owning & driving the quality of Customer and Business-facing interfaces designed across customer journeys

You will be designing how designers design. Dream, explore, create, and nurture other designers’ skills and processes, identifying areas for improvement through collaborating across functions at company

Involve yourself in increasing the effectiveness of the entire team by helping to define and adapt design processes that elevate the productivity and well-being of the Interaction Design Team

Manage communication and documentation within the interaction design team, partner with other functions, external contacts, and contribute to a company-wide understanding of the role of design

Introduce new ideas, new processes, and new tools to best support an efficient process, creative work, and consistently high-quality execution

Facilitate project scheduling, establish deadlines, ensure the team is aware of key milestones, lead team meetings, and coordinate creative/design reviews throughout the entire product lifecycle

Here’s what we are looking for:

6-9 years in Interaction Design, with an emphasis on digital product design

Experienced in managing design team and comes with a deep understanding of design methodology and the creative process

Experienced in collaboration and building relationships - interfacing with Research, Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams

Experienced in scoping, managing, and facilitating design sprints and workshops with large interdisciplinary teams

Must be driven by outcomes and committed to continuous learning

Experience in working with rapid-growth companies or startups is an added advantage

What you'll bring :

Degree in design from Tier 1 Design schools would be preferred but is not a mandate

6-9 years of relevant experience

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related
• Previous work experience as a Manual Testing in OTT Platform - MUST
• Complete understanding of STB, Set up box (MUST)
• Understanding of testing protocols
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong communication skills

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
• Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
• Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
• Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
• Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
• Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
• Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues

• 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
• Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
• Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
• Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
• Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
• Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
• Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
• Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Experience in working with docker is a plus
• Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
• Strong communication skills — both written and verbal

• Good experience and exposure of cloud native architecture, development and deployment on public clouds AWS, Google Cloud etc
• Responsible for Linux server installation, maintain, monitoring, data backup and recovery, securtiy and administration
• Understanding of clusters, distributed architecture, container environment 
• Experience in networking, including linux, software defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks
• Knowledge of several middleware such as MySQL, Apache etc
• Responsible for managing network storage
• Disaster recovery and incident response planning
• Configuring/monitoring firewalls, routers, switches and other network devices

• Support the globally distributed cloud development and teams by mainitaning the cloud infrastructure labs hosted in a hybrid cloud environment
• Contribute towards optimization of preformance and acost of running the labs