Lead Machine Learning Scientist, New AI Products and Platforms

What this role involves

The New York Times is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Scientist to lead the design and training of embedding models and fine-tuning of language models for new AI products. The role involves productionalizing models, defining evaluation practices, and collaborating with engineering teams. This is a hybrid remote/in-office position reporting to the Director of Machine Learning.

Skills this posting asks for

• machine learning
• statistics
• computer science
• python
• embedding models
• transformer encoders
• two tower architectures
• language models
• fine-tuning
• information extraction
• semantic retrieval
• production deployment

Requirements

• 7 years of experience
• Level: lead
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

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