Lead Machine Learning Scientist
The New York Timesabout 3 hours ago
Base Salary
$166k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and training of embedding models for representation learning.
- Fine-tune and evaluate language models for custom use cases and content enrichment.
- Productionalize embedding and language models in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Define shared practices around evaluation and responsible AI use.
- Identify and act on novel project opportunities to solve critical problems.
- Scope ongoing product improvements and prioritize team requests.
- Build relationships across the organization to meet project goals.
Requirements
- PhD plus 4+ years experience, or 7+ years experience in a relevant field.
- 4+ years of experience reframing challenges as Machine Learning tasks.
- 4+ years of experience with data cleaning, preparation, and model selection techniques.
- 2+ years of experience coding and deploying in production environments using Python.
- 2+ years of experience building production systems using LLMs or deep learning models.
- 1+ years of experience mentoring peers or junior ML scientists.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
- Company-matching 401(k) plan.
- Paid vacation and sick days.
- Paid parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.