Senior ML Engineer

BookMyMentor; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

BookMyMentor is seeking an ML Engineer (Applied Science) in Bengaluru, India. You will be responsible for training models aimed at improving English conversational skills using various innovative techniques and datasets.

The ideal candidate should have over four years of experience in model deployment and a customer-focused approach. Join us to empower non-native English speakers and innovate in the AI space!

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience shipping ML models in production.
• Experience in creating datasets and evaluations from scratch.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Train models for English conversational skill improvement.
• Experiment with different training strategies.
• Build task-specific evaluations and deploy models in production.

Skills

Model deployment

Dataset creation

Customer-focused approach

Team collaboration

NLP experience

Job description

Role Overview

We’re looking for an ML Engineer (Applied Science) to train models for various real-time English conversational skills improvement use cases. Example projects include:

• Personalised English learning exercise recommendation system
• Build demographic‑specific ASRs sensitive to various accents
• Empathy‑driven role play, similar to how an offline tutor would interact with a student
• Training models for grammar, vocabulary, accentuated pronunciation and similar speech feedback metrics

The role involves experimenting with different training strategies, creating datasets, building task‑specific evaluations, beating our internal SOTA, deploying in production, and repeating.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of strong experience shipping ML models in production. This is an applied science role.
• You’re comfortable creating datasets from scratch, as well as building task specific evals from scratch.
• You should think in a customer‑focused way, work in a tight‑knit and cross‑functional environment – being a team player and willing to take on whatever is best for the company.
• Mentor junior MLEs, or learn from battle‑tested ones. Contribute to hiring as we expand.
• Good to have: Relevant experience working with NLP, or other speech specific models.

About the Company

We are building audio‑AI to help the global population speak English better! Our advanced AI engines listen to you, provide detailed feedback on your essential speech metrics, and then provide guided practice for improvement. Being used in 200 countries & counting. At Stimuler, we’re building Speech AI models to empower the next 2 bn+ non‑native English speakers to enhance their conversational skills. We are Lightspeed‑backed, currently at 4 mn+ users from 200+ countries and won the Best AI App of 2023 by Google Play.