Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing engineering team. You’re the perfect fit for this role if you are passionate about solving problems in NLP, have a great appreciation for science and want to transform how it is done. Reporting into the Engineering Manager, Engineering.

You Will:

    • Continuously improve the performance and scalability of ML models that are at the core of BenchSci’s products
    • Leading and providing technical direction for BenchSci’s ML team
    • Work with BenchSci's Product Managers and Scientists to correctly capture the nuances of biology
    • Lead or consult the authoring of engineering design proposals following the unified Platform Stream roadmap at BenchSci
    • Leverage a deep understanding of the business context and the team’s goals to unlock independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements
    • Proactively identify new opportunities (from both internal and external sources) and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects
    • Respond with urgency and drive urgency in own team to operational issues, owning resolution within one's sphere of responsibility
    • Advocate for code and process improvements across your team, and help to define best practices based on personal industry experience and research
    • Participate in sprint planning, estimation and reviews. Take ownership of deliverables, and work with teammates to ensure high-quality deliverables

You Have:

    • 5+ years of software development experience 
    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Mathematics
    • Strong experience with NLP
    • Experience with computer vision problems
    • A degree in computer science with a focus in machine learning and at least three years of experience in the industry
    • Strong experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and image processing libraries such as OpenCV and scikit-image
    • Experience with data processing frameworks
    • You have a constant desire to grow and develop
    • You have strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
    • A team player who strives to see teammates succeed together

Nice to have:

    • Experience with GCP and its tools including VertexAI and BigQuery
    • Experience implementing proprietary LLMs/Multimodal LLMs like Gemini or GPT series
    • Experience implementing and/or fine-tuning open-sourced LLMs/Multimodal LLMs
    • Research publications in ML/AI-related fields
    • Background in Life Science (cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, microbiology)
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