Machine Learning Engineer (6 month contract)

What’s CrowdRiff? 

Good visuals are appealing to the eye, but great visuals tell stories that reignite your desire to discover, spark your creative imagination and even influence what we buy, eat, and do. That’s why CrowdRiff exists: to empower destination marketers to showcase their unique destinations through powerful visual storytelling solutions.

✨ CrowdRiff is built around the idea of pushing the boundaries of exploration; and our dedication to finding experiences that feel more authentic and undiscovered make us who we are. We like to think of ourselves as modern-day explorers, who believe in taking action now and thrive in an open, challenging, and encouraging environment. 

Our team is a quirky and diverse crew that has one thing in common: our love for great visuals. Picture this. You will contribute to amplifying unique travel experiences like scuba diving in Tahiti 🌊, exploring Napa’s wine country🥂, bungee jumping in Queenstown 🤩and much more while having access to some of our amazing travel perks that allow you to immerse yourselves in local communities and culture.

At CrowdRiff, you have the freedom, autonomy, and resources to set the course of your own future along with an incredible crew. We understand that to feel empowered and to keep forging new paths professionally and personally, we need to pull out all the stops. That’s why we take a proactive approach and set not only professional but also personal goals for all CrowdRiffers. To make this possible, we offer opportunities related to training, tuition, conferences, workshops, or anything else that will help you achieve your goals under our ‘DevDollars’ program. 

Every day, we work across departments, time zones, and even oceans to reach our goals and delight our customers - all while being remote. If you are looking to make travel an incredible experience today, and for future generations, and are passionate about visuals & tech, you’re just our type. 💯

Your Role: Machine Learning Engineer (6 month contract)

CrowdRiff is leading the transformation of the Destination Marketing Industry, integrating AI technology into our products. As a Machine Learning Engineer on our new solutions, you will join a Product Development team that will help fine tune foundational models and improve the quality of our content and reliability with our customers. 

You will work, learn, and develop with a very agile, nimble team which includes a product manager and small group of software developers who are all invested in your success. You’ll primarily work in Python with help from all of the managed services offered by Google Cloud.  

Our product has many interconnected parts which requires systems design thinking to build something that is useful and intuitive, while elegantly serving the needs of our users. Immerse yourself in the Destination Marketing industry and solve the important challenges that help these destinations and their communities thrive.

• Collaborate with other developers to develop data pipelines and architectures related to data collection, storage, processing, and analysis for our AI solutions.
• Conduct model training and hyperparameter tuning.
• Monitor and troubleshoot machine learning models to ensure accuracy and performance.
• Perform requirements analysis, working with team members of different levels and documenting solutions.
• Work with large-scale data sets and manage data flow between systems.
• Communicate your findings through quantitative data analysis and qualitative visuals and insights.

• Strong experience of working with NLP.
• Experience fine tuning LLMs.
• Experience deploying LLMs in production.
• Track record of delivering robust, scalable and production-ready solutions with ML models.
• 6+ years of development experience and application development.
• Operated in fast-paced environments with uncertainty, within a growing company.
• Highly organized with a strong commitment to meeting your goals.
• Energized by ambiguity and capable of investigating with little guidance towards possible solutions. 
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, software development principles, and design patterns.
• Experience collaborating with your leadership peers and bringing conversations to next steps.
• Ability to reason trade-offs and make technical decisions under a certain level of uncertainty.
• A passion for your craft.
• Bonus if you're passionate about travel and photography.

Want to hear more? Visit our website and learn more about our team. 

Upon request, CrowdRiff will provide job applicants with any accommodations they may require for the interview process, candidate assessments, and all other applicable steps within the recruitment and selection process. When requested, CrowdRiff will consult with the applicant to provide suitable accommodations. 

CrowdRiff is proud to be a diverse and equal opportunity employer and as such does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origins, age, sexual orientation, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.  Selection decisions are solely based on job-related factors.