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PhD University Grad Machine Learning Engineer 2026 (USA)

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5 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA +2 more
Entry Level / Mid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$163k - $214k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
  • Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data to build intelligent models.
  • Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code.
  • Use machine learning and natural language processing to solve modeling and ranking problems.
  • Design, build, and test models to predict engagement for notifications.
  • Build content recommendation systems for push, email, and in-app notifications.
  • Work on large-scale applied machine learning projects.
  • Scope and independently solve moderately complex problems.

Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field required.
  • Machine Learning experience in ranking, computer vision, NLP, content recommendations, and information retrieval.
  • Proficiency in at least one systems language (Java, C++, Python) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch).
  • Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop/Spark and scalable real-time systems.
  • Experience in research and solving analytical problems.
  • Strong communicator and team player with problem-solving skills.
  • Preferred: Publications in machine learning, AI, or related fields.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache SparkC++JavaMLflowPythonPyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

AI & MLData Science