Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Responsibilities

• Everything involved in applying a ML model to a production use case, including designing and coding up the neural network, gathering and refining data, training and tuning the model, deploying it at scale with high throughput and uptime, and analyzing the results in the wild in order to continuously update and improve accuracy and speed
• Write and maintain scalable, performant code that can be shared across platforms
• Contribute meaningfully to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Develop novel, accurate, and performant ML algorithms for use at scale
• Conduct metric-driven research experiments to improve model performance
• Provide mentorship to and help onboard ML engineers
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with other teams
• Contribute to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
• Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
• Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Minimum Requirements

• You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
• You have 8+ years of experience building web applications
• You have successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• You have delivered scalable backend APIs
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
• You have experience writing code and training across distributed systems
• You have the ability to understand and make well-reasoned tradeoffs in designing features
• You are an expert in machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch or Tensorflow
• You are an expert in scripting languages such as Python and/or shell scripts, particularly for data analysis
• You are a subject matter expert in at least one focus area of machine learning, such as computer vision or natural language processing
• You can lead end to end development of new products