Comcast’s Technology & Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards.

The Voice Control Platform (VREX) is part of Comcast Cable’s Technology & Product (T&P) organization and serves the larger company with advanced NLP technologies for searching and discovering any type of content in the entertainment catalog available.

The Voice control Platform needs an engineer that is familiar with scalability principles and micro-services. We will be handling voice requests of millions of customers and are transitioning our platform that operates reliably and efficiently with the latest at-scale technologies.

You will work with other engineers and researchers with backgrounds in advanced fields such as natural language processing, information retrieval, and knowledge representation. As a key member of the team, you will help define, refine, and test state of the art algorithms, and scale the associated systems for high performance, stability, and availability.

Comcast T&P encourages career development with regular opportunities for training and programs for innovative cross-team projects such as week-long Hackathon and job rotation programs over the summer.

Core Responsibilities

  • Writing production-quality, tested code.
  • Understanding the code base for your components in depth.
  • Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
  • Collaborating with our quality assurance and technical operations teams to provide outstanding customer service.
  • Participating in code reviews and helping the team to be effective and agile.
  • Staying educated on technical developments and tools necessary for the design and maintenance of complex, distributed platforms.

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field.
  • Generally 2-5 years of relevant work experience, including extensive programming experience and strong object-oriented skills including Java server-side development.
  • Experience as part of a team doing state-of-the art, object-oriented software development including continuous integration, test-driven-development, automated unit and integration testing.
  • Experience with versioning tools. GIT a plus.
  • Must demonstrate an understanding of software design patterns and the practical application of those patterns.
  • Experience with high-scale, distributed web service development (hands-on experience with RESTful web services).
  • Experience with noSQL databases like: Cassandra or MongoDB.
  • Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
  • Knowledge of major open frameworks and platforms including Spring and Docker.
  • Knowledge of Docker Swarm. Deployment orchestration tools.
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
  • UNIX/Linux background: facility with command-line utilities; familiarity with system administration tools and concepts.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and micro-services a plus.
  • Experience with Elasticsearch and Lucene.
  • Experience with various data interchange and representation formats such as JSON, XML.
  • Strong initiative: must be able to take high-level requirements, ask questions and get clarifications, decompose into deliverable software components, design and implement solution to meet functional, performance, and quality acceptance criteria.
  • Excellent communication: must be a good listener, willing to ask questions, and able to clearly communicate ideas with team members and external groups.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

Desired Skills and Experience