Senior Machine Learning Engineer

We are seeking a talented and passionate Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our AI team and play a driving role in developing cutting-edge AI systems. As a key member of the team, you will design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models, including LLM optimizations. You will work on challenging data science problems while collaborating closely with business, product, and engineering teams to deliver impactful AI-driven features. As a Senior ML Engineer, you'll not only lead complex technical initiatives but also actively mentor junior team members and drive projects from ideation to deployment. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, leveraging advanced AI technologies to transform an industry ripe for digital disruption.

Responsibilities:

• Research, design, develop, and Deploy AI models and systems.
• Lead the research and development of AI models - a varied portfolio ranging from small classifiers to fine-tuning LLMs for specific use cases.
• Design, implement, and deploy AI-based solutions to solve business and product problems.
• Develop and implement strategies to track and improve the performance and efficiency of existing and new AI models and systems.
• Operationalize efficient dataset creation and management.
• Execute best practices for end-to-end data and AI pipelines.
• Work closely with the leadership team on research and development efforts to explore cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including full-stack engineers, product managers, QA engineers, data annotation experts, SMEs, and other stakeholders, to ensure the successful implementation of AI technologies.
• Build and mentor the AI team.
• Work closely with the AI and Engineering Leadership to support the hiring of top AI talent.
• Uphold our culture of engineering excellence by maintaining high standards in innovation and execution.

Requirements:

• You are a motivated Machine Learning Engineer with at least 5 years of relevant experience who is passionate about working on innovative projects in a dynamic environment.
• You thrive on solving challenging problems using advanced AI technologies.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Science or Engineering with strong programming, data science, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• 5+ years of experience building in ML and Data science.
• Recent demonstrable hands-on experience with LLMs - integrating off-the-shelf LLMs, fine-tuning smaller models, building RAG pipelines, designing agentic flows, and other optimization techniques with LLMs.
• Strong conceptual understanding of foundational models, transformers, and related research.
• Strong conceptual understanding of the basics of machine learning and deep learning, with expertise in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
• Recent demonstrable experience with managing large datasets for AI projects.
• Experience with implementing AI projects in Python and working knowledge of associated Python libraries - numpy, scipy, pandas, sklearn, matplotlib, nltk, etc.
• Experience with Hugging Face, Spacy, BERT, Tensorflow, Torch, OpenRouter, Modal, and similar services/frameworks.
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and bug-free code.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives from concept to operation while navigating challenges effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.