Staff Machine Learning Engineer - NLP, LLM, Deep-Learning

Eightfold.ai was founded with a vision to solve for employment in our society. For decades, the connection between individuals and opportunities has been based on who the individuals are and the strength of their network, vs. their potential. Eightfold leverages artificial intelligence to transform how to think about skills and capabilities for individuals as well as how jobs and career decisions are made. Eightfold offers the industry’s first AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform how organizations plan, hire, develop and retain a diverse workforce, enabling individuals to transform their career. If you are passionate about solving one of the most fundamental challenges of our society - employment, working on hard business problems and being part of an amazing growth story - Eightfold is the place to be! About AI Team The AI / Machine Learning team is building the industry's leading Machine Learning models for use cases at scale. This team is also responsible for pushing the boundaries of applied Machine Learning on a challenging and diverse dataset. In this senior level role, You will own, train, build and deploy cutting edge deep learning models across all Eightfold products, end to end. You will apply your expertise in building and deploying ML models in production at scale. You will collaborate on various ideas and ensure that there is a highly reliable, world class platform to run ML models on. You will help build high performance and flexible infrastructure and services that can rapidly evolve to handle new technologies, techniques and modeling approaches You will implement and operate an intuitive, easy to use and flexible ML development framework. Build data pipelines that are able to generate structure from unstructured data Create industry best practices for Machine Learning in Recruiting and HR Technology Do it responsibly to provide equal opportunity for everyone by extending our internal model fairness platform Work with various product teams to apply deep learning as relevant Must haves: Strong foundation in Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning, and NLP Hands-on experience in applying Natural Language Processing solutions to challenging real world problems. Ability to work cross functionally & interface with data science experts across Eightfold customer base Familiar with Language models, transformers like BERT, GPT-3, T-5 etc. Exceptionally strong knowledge of CS fundamental concepts and ML languages ( like Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, R, and Scala, etc. ) Ability to innovate, as proven by a track record of software artifacts or academic publications in applied machine learning. Prior experience building and deploying machine learning models in production at scale Understanding of data and/or ML systems with ability to think across layers of the stack - REST APIs, micro-services, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed systems. Extensive experience with scientific libraries in Python (numba, pandas) and machine learning tools and frameworks (scikit-learn, tensorflow, torch, etc.). Experience of implementing production machine learning systems, working with large scale datasets and solid understanding of machine learning theory. Metrics-focused and passionate about delivering high quality models. Experience with analyzing large data sets, using Hadoop, Spark Bachelor's degree or 10 years of equivalent experience Nice To Haves: Experience with real-time technology problems Familiar with Pandas / Python machine learning libraries Familiar with Spark, MLLib, Databricks MLFlow, Apache Airflow and similar related technologies. Familiar with a cloud based environment such as AWS Familiarity with MLOps tools and pipelines (MLflow, Metaflow). Eightfold Engineering Values & Benefits We are a team of self-starters who excel in their fields. We believe in giving you responsibility, not a task. We want you to have ownership and pride in the work you are doing, and see the positive impact of your work on your colleagues, our customers, and people around the world. We have a mindset of continuously improving. There is no detail which is beneath us, and we can dive into anything needed. We focus on executing fast and delivering value to our customers every single day. We believe in providing transparency and support, so you can do the best work of your career. CA Pay Transparency The information below is provided for candidates hired in California location. In California, the standard base pay range for this role is USD $163,000 - $245,000 annually. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards, benefits and discretionary bonuses. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and geographic location within the state.