Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Applied Research; Remote

Employer Industry: Education Technology

• Salary range up to $185,000/year
• Bonus eligible position
• Remote-first culture that offers flexibility and promotes work-life balance
• Comprehensive health and wellness programs, including generous time off and self-care days
• Opportunities for professional development and education reimbursement
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment that values integrity and teamwork

• Research and develop production-grade Machine Learning models, optimizing them for scaled production usage
• Collaborate with AI team, Engineering teams, and subject matter experts to explore product challenges and recommend ML/AI solutions
• Curate and generate optimal datasets while adhering to responsible data collection and maintenance practices
• Investigate and address weaknesses of models in production, implementing pragmatic solutions
• Write clean, efficient, and modular code with automated tests and documentation, and present findings to peers and stakeholders

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, applied math, or related field
• At least 5 years of industry experience in Machine/Deep Learning, Computer Science, and Software Engineering
• Strong understanding of the mathematics and theory behind machine learning and deep learning
• Academic publications in peer-reviewed conferences or journals related to Machine Learning
• Proficiency in Machine/Deep Learning development skills, including popular platforms like AWS Sage Maker, PyTorch, and more

• Experience working with text data to build Deep Learning and ML models; experience in other modalities such as vision and speech is a strong bonus
• Familiarity with building front-ends for demos, POCs, and prototypes
• Experience with advanced prompting, agentic-systems, and fine-tuning or training LLMs
• Showcase of previous work (e.g., via a website or open-source code)
• Essential dev-ops skills, including Docker and AWS services

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