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You will be the primary software engineering expert for a product area, working as part of a cross-functional agile team and owning the successful launches and ongoing operations of high-profile products in production.\nThis is a senior software engineering / MLOps role focused on building and operating production services and platform capabilities, not a model research role. Data science experience is valuable but secondary to production engineering and operational ownership. Your focus will be on driving new feature delivery, maintaining operational excellence, and collaborating on enhancements to our shared ML platform.\nIn addition to technical expertise, this job requires strong collaboration skills. 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