Senior Staff Engineer - HALO, Core AI

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 233,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their CORE AI team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your expertise in machine learning and technical leadership to drive data curation and enhance AI product evaluation. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data needs are met and contribute to the development of cutting-edge tools that support AI initiatives. This position offers a hybrid work environment, allowing you to balance remote work with in-office collaboration. If you're passionate about shaping the future of AI and thrive in a dynamic setting, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Generous health and wellness programs

Time off for employees

Annual performance bonus

Stock options

Flexible work hours

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software design and algorithm solutions.
• 2+ years in a leadership position.

Responsibilities

• Work with large-scale data to build systems for AI evaluation.
• Provide technical leadership and drive engineering best practices.

Skills

Machine Learning

AI Product Development

Technical Leadership

Model Evaluation

Education

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science

Masters or PhD in related fields

Job description

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Company Overview:

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.

Team Overview:
In this role, you will be a core member of LinkedIn’s CORE AI team and will partner closely with other verticals in Data and AI organization and other Product teams. You’ll be driving and managing all data curation and annotation efforts across LinkedIn. You’ll be at the forefront of transforming how we evaluate our most cutting-edge AI based products leveraging LLMs to enhance our processes. You will oversee the development and improvement of the tools and platforms that support these activities.

Success in this role hinges on building strong partnerships. You’ll work closely with teams across the company, ensuring their data requirements are met swiftly and effectively. Your vision, leadership, and strategic mindset will be critical as we push the boundaries of what’s possible.


Location:


At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, CA.
Responsibilities:


- Work with large-scale data to build systems which will leverage and support new techniques for evaluating AI based products
- Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and collaborator orgs, drive and perform best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional critical projects.
- Hold the team to a high ML craftsmanship bar and actively reduce ML tech debt, designing systems that scale with algorithms and with time, and improve engineering productivity.
- Partner with data science & analytics teams, product & infrastructure teams to build new innovative ideas to improve member experience.
- Bring together industry research and develop opportunities to contribute back to industry research


Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions

- 2+ years in a Lead, Staff, Principal, Architect, or similar technical Leadership position.

- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with Machine Learning or Recommendation Systems


Preferred Qualifications


- 10+ years of experience, including extensive work with leading solutions related to evaluation of complex systems, AI/Machine Learning and/or experimentation

- Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Economics and related fields
- Background in one or more of the following areas: experimentation, large scale evaluations, machine learnings, deep learning, Large Language Models (LLM)
- Demonstrated ability to work with peers in engineering across teams to set technical directions




Suggested Skills:
Model Evaluation
AI Product Development
Technical Leadership


You will Benefit from our Culture:

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $233,000 - $315,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet and IT Services and IT Consulting

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