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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

CompanyOtter.ai
LocationMountain View, CA, USA
Salary$185000 – $242000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Holds a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field + 5 years of relevant industry experience
  • Has hands-on experience building ML models, and with finetuning/post-training LLMs or other foundation models
  • Demonstrates deep understanding of state-of-the-art ML models and current research landscape
  • Is able to deploy, monitor, and maintain ML models in production environments
  • Has proficiency in Python and core ML frameworks, such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, Jax, etc.
  • Is able to work with large datasets and perform data preprocessing and feature engineering
  • Is experienced working end-to-end with product/infra engineers, data scientists and PMs
  • Is experienced leading projects and mentoring junior engineers

Responsibilities

  • Build, optimize, and deploy robust SID/ASR/NLP/LLM pipelines powering summarization, chat, and other core product experiences.
  • Implement and scale training, fine-tuning, and inference for large language models (LLMs) using PyTorch or JAX.
  • Collaborate with research scientists to operationalize experimental models and bring cutting-edge ideas into production.
  • Own the reliability, latency, and scalability of AI-based systems and ensure they meet production standards.
  • Contribute to model monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement efforts using real-world conversational data.
  • Develop tools, infrastructure and data pipeline for automated training, evaluation, and deployment of ML models in a cloud environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with scaling large ML systems is a strong plus
  • Significant experience with ASR/TTS or sequence-based NLP tasks (such as summarization) is a strong plus