Full-Time Senior Machine Learning Scientist (UK Remote)

Turnitin is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our products and services.

At Turnitin, working remotely is our default. We respect local cultures, embrace diversity, and respect personal choice. Our diverse community of colleagues is unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Machine Learning is integral to the continued success of our company. You will join a global team of curious, helpful, and independent 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 across Turnitin to integrate Machine Learning into a broad suite of learning, teaching, and integrity products. Your contributions will have global reach and scale.

Responsibilities:

• Work with subject matter experts and product owners to determine questions that should be answered.
• Work with subject matter experts to curate, generate, and annotate data, and create optimal datasets.
• Answer questions and make trainable datasets from raw data, using efficient SQL queries and scripting languages.
• Develop and tune Machine Learning models, following best practices.
• Utilize, adopt, and fine-tune Language Models (LLMs).
• Stay current in the field - read research papers, experiment with new architectures and LLMs.
• Optimize models for scaled production usage.
• Communicate insights, as well as the behavior and limitations of models, to peers, subject matter experts, and product owners.
• Write clean, efficient, and modular code.
• Stay up to date with technology and make good technological choices.

Requirements:

• Experience working with text data to build Deep Learning and ML models.
• Strong understanding of the math and theory behind machine learning and deep learning.
• Software engineering background with at least 3-5 years of experience.
• Machine/Deep Learning development skills, including experiment tracking.
• Understanding of Language Models, using and training/fine-tuning.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field with relevant industry experience.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with coding for at-scale production.
• Dev-ops skills.
• Familiarity in building front-ends.
• Experience with advanced prompting, fine-tuning, or training LLMs.

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