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Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Platform Integrity Engineering, Level 7

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2 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +5 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$235k - $414k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and scale machine learning models and systems to detect harmful content and bad actors, support content moderation, promote content quality, and ensure regulatory compliance.
  • Set and align machine learning strategies with company objectives in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Design, train, and optimize advanced machine learning models and apply emerging ML technologies to complex problems.
  • Provide technical direction across the ML community and lead complex technical initiatives.
  • Improve the ML technology stack and organizational performance in collaboration with leadership.
  • Evaluate product requirements and trade-offs, deliver scalable solutions, and advocate for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management best practices.
  • Mentor and collaborate with engineers, executives, management, and globally distributed cross-functional teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, mathematics, or statistics, or equivalent years of experience.
  • 9+ years of post-bachelor's machine learning experience, or a master's degree with 8+ years of post-graduate ML experience, or a PhD in a related technical field with 5+ years of post-graduate ML experience.
  • At least 2 years of technical leadership experience or experience serving as a domain expert for a technical organization.
  • Experience developing and shipping performant and scalable machine learning models.
  • Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or related deep learning frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and LLM/VLM approaches and algorithms.
  • Preferred experience in online safety and integrity, Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, Content Quality, multimodal models, LLMs/VLMs, and behavioral-signal modeling.
  • Preferred advanced degree, executive partnership experience, delivery in rapidly changing distributed environments, collaboration with diverse engineering groups, and contributions to AI publications.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that include long-term-success participation.
  • Default-together work policy requiring team members to work in an office 4 or more days per week.
  • Reasonable accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities or special needs.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

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About Snap

5,001-10,000 employees

Snap Inc. builds Snapchat, a visual messaging app, and supports augmented reality through Lens Studio and Spectacles, plus related services like Bitmoji. The company monetizes primarily via advertising and sponsored AR experiences for consumers, creators, and brands. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, it is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker SNAP.

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