Lead Software Engineer

Join our growing AI team as a Lead Software Engineer (AI Data Systems) and help build the critical infrastructure that powers the future of intelligent, agent-driven systems at Upwork. You’ll be responsible for collecting high-quality training data, building scalable featurization pipelines, and delivering performant systems to support model training and inference at scale. This role involves designing and implementing systems to collect and curate high-quality training datasets, building scalable preprocessing pipelines, and leading the development of infrastructure that enables experimentation and deployment of machine learning models. Mentor engineers and foster a high-performance, collaborative engineering culture.