Responsibilities:

• Is an SME in Machine Learning
• Able to tech lead initiatives for Data Science and ML: task breakdown, project design, delegation, and review
• Produce "clean" and well-structured code, with detailed specifications. This means that your code is well-designed, simple, readable properly documented, well-tested, and is production ready
• Has influence over multiple teams and roadmaps
• Mentors junior engineers 
• Improves foundational processes and promotes best practices
• Contributes to the hiring and interview process

Competencies:

• Customer driven: Attentive to our customers’ needs and strive to deliver a seamless and delightful customer experience
• High Impact: Understand what the most important customer metrics are and find the right direction to impact them by working with Product Managers and through multiple agile iterations
• Ownership: Have ownership of projects from start to finish, make sure to have high quality implementation, and have urgency to move fast and find the most efficient ways to iterate
• Team Mentorship & Sharing: Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
• Agility: Organized and able to effectively plan and breakdown large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver. Can lead fast iterations
• Speak and Act Courageously: Isn’t afraid to fail, isn’t afraid to challenge status quo, speak up for contrarian view
• Focus and Move with Urgency: Able to prioritize for impact and move fast to deliver experiments and features to achieve customer value
• Intelligence: Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new codebase and frameworks

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other quantitative fields or related work experience
• 6+ years of experience building Machine Learning or AI systems
• Experience deploying and managing machine learning models in the cloud
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven software engineering skills in production environment, primarily using Python
• Experience with Machine Learning software tools and libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Databricks, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, mlflow, and Airflow
• PhD in Computer Science or related field with a focus on machine learning
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) or similar technologies
• Experience with one or more of the following: natural language processing, deep learning, recommendation systems, search relevance & ranking, and speech-to-text conversion.