Senior ML Engineer - LLM Applications (Remote - United Kingdom)

Yelp; Manchester; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm seeks a Senior ML Engineer to leverage generative AI in developing impactful user-facing products. This role involves working with large-scale datasets and deploying ML models at scale, ensuring high availability and performance. You'll collaborate with product managers and engineers to define problems, curate datasets, and productionize models. Join a cooperative team that values authenticity and creativity, and enjoy a dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth and learning.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase plan

25 days paid holiday

Remote work reimbursement

Private health insurance

Flexible hours

Wellness expense allowance

Regular hackathons

Quarterly team offsites

Qualifications

• Experience in deploying ML models and data pipelines.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Java, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Define problems and gather requirements with product managers.
• Develop and validate generative AI models and fine-tune as needed.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Data Analysis

Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning

AI Technologies

Tools

Apache Spark

AWS Redshift

AWS S3

Cassandra

AWS Athena

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Senior ML Engineer - LLM Applications (Remote - United Kingdom)

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Summary

Yelp's engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code within their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

We connect people with great local businesses. We handle millions of users sending hundreds of millions of photos, videos, and reviews. Our core content group and mining and text intelligence team organize these reviews and photos into data products. We are looking for experienced engineers eager to learn and contribute to building applications using generative AI. You will work with large-scale visual and textual datasets to develop impactful user-facing products and features utilizing the latest LLMs and ML models. Responsibilities include deploying data pipelines or ETLs for new online and offline data products, leveraging machine learning to create multi-modal models, and deploying ML products at scale.

This role requires you to be located in the United Kingdom. We value great people and encourage applications even if you don’t meet every requirement listed. At Yelp, diversity and inclusion are core to our values.

What You'll Do

• Define problems and gather requirements collaboratively with product managers, teammates, and engineering managers.
• Collect and curate datasets necessary for evaluating and training generative models.
• Develop and validate results of generative AI models.
• Fine-tune models as needed.
• Productionize models for offline and online usage.
• Balance scale, latency, and availability depending on the problem context.

What It Takes To Succeed

• Proficiency in Python, Java, or C++.
• Experience in open-ended data analysis, pattern recognition, and statistical insights.
• A passion for learning and applying cutting-edge AI technologies.
• Understanding of building data pipelines for training and deploying ML models or ETL pipelines for analytics and product features.
• Experience deploying live software services in production environments.
• Familiarity with technologies like Apache Spark, AWS Redshift, AWS S3, Cassandra, AWS Athena, Kafka, Flink, and service-oriented architecture.

What You'll Get

• Ownership of projects from day one within a collaborative and dynamic environment.
• Competitive salary, pension scheme, and employee stock purchase plan.
• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus a floating holiday.
• £150 monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses.
• £81 caregiver reimbursement for dependent care.
• Private health insurance including dental and vision.
• Flexible hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
• Regular hackathons, learning groups, and career development support.
• Participation in digital events and conferences.
• £81 monthly wellness expense allowance.
• Quarterly team offsites.

Yelp values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other protected statuses.