Intermediate Machine Learning Engineer, AI Powered: Custom Models

NLP PEOPLE; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a backend developer to join its Custom Models team, focusing on AI advancements. The role involves developing evaluation techniques, collaborating on AI features, and guiding implementations. Candidates should have strong machine learning experience, particularly with Python, and a relevant degree. GitLab offers a fully remote environment and values a diverse team.

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Home office support

Growth and development budget

Parental leave

Well-being benefits

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in machine learning.
• Experienced in performance and optimization problem-solving.
• Self-motivated and strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop evaluation techniques for AI feature quality assurance.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers as a machine learning specialist.
• Keep up with industry trends and new models.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Data Science

Communication

Problem Solving

Optimization

Education

Master’s degree in ML or Data Science

PhD in Machine Learning or related field

Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensiveAI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Ourmissionis to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running ouroperationson our product and staying aligned with ourvalues. Learn more aboutLife at GitLab.

Thanks to products likeDuo Enterprise, andDuo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

An overview of this role

The Custom Models team is responsible for Duo Self-Hosted, a key component in GitLab AI that allows customers to run GitLab Duo features on completely private environments, connecting GitLab to their own AI models. They work collaboratively with numerous teams to ensure a complete lifecycle of assessing models, evaluating features, implementing controls for customization and guaranteeing a smooth experience for our largest customers.

Why us? This isn't just a job; it's your chance to shape the future of AI at GitLab. Your expertise in backend development will be critical to your success. Ready to dive into the future of AI at GitLab? Apply now! We're excited to meet potential candidates like you and welcome a new star to our team. Let's shape the future together!

What you’ll do

• Develop evaluation techniques to assist feature teams on guaranteeing the quality of their features on new models.
• Evolve the Evaluation Runner, our internal tool for scaling AI Feature evaluation
• Keep up with the industry to explore brand new models.
• Deploy and manage LLMs internally for evaluation and development.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders as a machine learning specialist, guiding them on effective implementation of AI features.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale machine-learning environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate as a reviewer or project maintainer in one or more engineering projects.

What you’ll bring

• A relevant Master’s degree and 2 or more years of experience in ML or PhD degree with a focus on Machine Learning or Data Science.
• Professional experience with Python.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our Values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Two of more of

• Professional experience with prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Experience with evaluation of Machine Learning models or AI features.
• Experience with model deployments on cloud platforms like AWS and GCP.
• Proven experience designing and implementing LLM evaluation systems.
• Strong understanding of ML model architectures.
• Expertise in ML evaluation metrics and dataset management.
• Demonstrated ability to build production-grade ML infrastructure.
• Practical experience with Python-based ML frameworks and evaluation tools (e.g., Langsmith, DSpy).

Bonus qualifications

• Have contributed a Merge Request to GitLab
• Have contributed to ML open source projects

About the team

The Custom Models team is a team formed of GitLab team members from around the globe. Engineers are primarily located across various European countries, with some distributions in Australia, New Zealand, America, and Canada.

The team works closely with these other teams within the organization:

• AI Framework
• MLOps
• Model Validation
• Duo Chat

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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