Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer

What this role involves

SoundCloud is seeking a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead ML strategy and execution for recommendation, personalization, and search systems. The role involves architecting large-scale ML systems, exploring advanced modeling techniques like LLMs and transformers, and growing a high-performing team. This role reports to the CTO and focuses on bringing ML-powered features to market.

Skills this posting asks for

• deep neural networks
• large language models
• recommender systems
• multi-modal embeddings
• transformer architectures
• feature engineering
• model serving infrastructure
• feature stores
• pipeline orchestration
• model registry
• versioning
• agentic workflows
• llm-assisted systems
• machine learning
• deep learning
• natural language processing
• distributed systems
• python
• tensorflow
• pytorch
• kubernetes
• mlflow
• airflow
• spark

Requirements

• Level: principal

From the employer’s posting

SoundCloud empowers artists, tastemakers and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is a creator-first platform helping artists build and grow their careers by providing them with the most advanced tools, services, and resource…