Full-Time Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Turnitin, LLC is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Machine Learning Scientist. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Remote based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Machine Learning is integral to the continued success of our company. You will join a global team of scientists and engineers, united by a commitment to deliver cutting-edge, well-engineered Machine Learning systems. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to integrate Machine Learning into a broad suite of products. Your contributions will have global reach and scale.
Responsibilities:
- Research and develop production grade Machine Learning models.
- Optimize models for scaled production usage.
- Work with colleagues to explore product issues, challenges and opportunities and then recommend innovative ML/AI based solutions.
- Work with subject matter experts to curate and generate optimal datasets.
- Investigate weaknesses of models in production and work on pragmatic solutions.
- Utilize, adopt, and fine-tune off the shelf models, including LLMs exposed via API and locally hosting LMs and other foundation models.
- Write clean, efficient, and modular code with automated tests and appropriate documentation.
- Work with downstream teams to productionize your work and ensure that it makes into a product release.
- Communicate insights to peers, subject matter experts, and product owners.
- Present and publish your work.
Requirements:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field.
- At least 5 years of industry experience in Machine / Deep Learning, Computer Science and Software Engineering.
- A strong understanding of the math and theory behind machine learning and deep learning is a prerequisite.
- Academic publications in peer reviewed conferences or journals related to Machine Learning.
- Machine / Deep Learning development skills, including popular platforms.
- An understanding of Language Models, using and training / fine-tuning and a familiarity with industry-standard LM families.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Bonus:
- Software development proficiency.
- Experience working with text data to build Deep Learning and ML models.
- Experience with deep learning in other modalities such as vision and speech.
- Familiarity in building front-ends for simple demos, POCs and prototypes.
- Experience with advanced prompting / agentic-systems and fine-tuning or training an LLM.
- Familiarity in coding for at-scale production, ranging from best practices to building back-end API services or stand-alone libraries.
- Essential dev-ops skills.