Founding ML Engineer — NLP & IR for Global Data

Crustdata (YC F24); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology firm in San Francisco seeks a Founding ML Engineer to lead the research and engineering of their core AI systems. You will convert messy, multilingual web-scale data into structured intelligence, resolve data discrepancies, and train ML models from conception to production. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in building production ML models in NLP or information retrieval, demonstrating a founding mentality and proficiency in Python and PyTorch.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and shipping ML models in production, specifically in NLP, information retrieval, or entity resolution.
• Strong experience with transformer architectures, having trained and fine-tuned encoder models.
• Familiarity with building and evaluating retrieval systems, classifiers, and embedding models.

Responsibilities

• Owning ML systems to process multilingual web-scale data into structured intelligence.
• Returning appropriate professional titles based on customer search queries.
• Resolving disparate data sources indicating the same company across millions of records.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

NLP

Information Retrieval

Entity Resolution

Text Classification

Job description

A leading AI technology firm in San Francisco seeks a Founding ML Engineer to lead the research and engineering of their core AI systems. You will convert messy, multilingual web-scale data into structured intelligence, resolve data discrepancies, and train ML models from conception to production. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in building production ML models in NLP or information retrieval, demonstrating a founding mentality and proficiency in Python and PyTorch.