3 days ago
Base Salary
$230k - $322k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to machine learning engineers, including driving designs, reviews, standards, and quality improvements.
- Develop technical strategy for content-based embeddings and relevance in advertising.
- Design and iterate on embedding models, aggregation pipelines, two-tower architectures, and sequence models.
- Use and fine-tune local and third-party LLMs and VLMs to build representations and embedding systems.
- Build data processing and model inference pipelines.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative evaluation through benchmarks, recommender-system metrics, and online experiments.
- Ensure ML-system reliability, scalability, and performance through testing, monitoring, and model-management practices.
- Review modeling and coding work and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level machine learning models.
- Staff-level technical leadership experience mentoring engineers, setting standards, and leading complex cross-functional projects without direct people-management authority.
- Strong experience with large-scale content-rich NLP and computer-vision problems and embeddings.
- A data-driven approach to ML-system development and willingness to investigate underlying metrics.
- Familiarity with advertising, search, and/or recommender systems.
- Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Preferred: experience with Python, PyTorch, Airflow, BigQuery, Ray, Kubernetes, Kafka, and GCP.
- Preferred: hands-on experience building or fine-tuning LLMs.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
- Family planning support, gender-affirming care, and mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
- Flexible-first work arrangement with remote work available from anywhere on the US East Coast in Eastern Time.
- Base salary range of $230,000–$322,000, with potential equity in restricted stock units and, depending on the position, commission.
- Interview recording, transcription, and summarization may occur, with an option to opt out before scheduled interviews.
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