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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

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Responsibilities

  • 01Frame and prototype ML and agentic solutions for problems that do not yet have an established approach
  • 02Design, build, and productionize end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment
  • 03Build and improve abuse behavior detection that generalizes across defenses
  • 04Design, launch, and iterate on AI agents that automate trust decisions including orchestration, tool interfaces, and guardrails
  • 05Build benchmarks, evaluation harnesses, and instrumentation to measure agentic and model decision quality
  • 06Develop specialized models for trust and safety use cases using LLMs and AI agents
  • 07Write, review, and ship clean, testable code for models and pipelines
  • 08Work with large-scale structured and unstructured data to improve ML models
  • 09Partner with front line defense teams to validate solutions through experiments and quantify impact

Requirements

  • 015-10 years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning with track record of building and productionizing models at scale
  • 021-2+ years of hands-on experience with LLMs and GenAI technologies including building with agentic frameworks, orchestration, and evaluation
  • 03Strong programming skills in Python
  • 04Familiarity with Scala, Java, or equivalent
  • 05Solid understanding of Machine Learning best practices including training/serving skew minimization, A/B testing, feature engineering, model selection
  • 06Knowledge of algorithms such as gradient boosted trees, neural networks, transformers, and deep learning
  • 07Experience with ML frameworks and tooling such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent
  • 08Experience with data engineering and building end-to-end ML pipelines including both batch and real-time systems
  • 09Experience designing evaluation methodology for ML or LLM systems including benchmarks, ground truth, offline/online metrics, calibration
  • 10Comfort with ambiguity and bias toward action
  • 11Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software applications
  • 12Experience with test-driven development, incremental delivery, and deployment practices
  • 13Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in CS/ML or related field