GoFundMe · 3 weeks ago
AI Platform Lead Architect
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$216K/yr - $324K/yr
9+ years expGoFundMe is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. They are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to design their AI platform and develop next-generation machine learning services, collaborating with a motivated team to deliver impactful solutions.
CrowdfundingInternetPeer to Peer
Responsibilities
Design and implement AI platforms to enable scalable and secure access to LLMs from multiple model providers for diverse use cases
Design and implement agentic workflows, agentic tool ecosystems, and LLM prompt management solutions
Design, build, and optimize scalable model training, fine tuning, and inference pipelines, ensuring robust integration with production systems
Influence technical strategy and approach to developing embedding stores, vector databases, and other reusable assets
Lead initiatives to streamline ML and AI workflows, improve operational efficiency, and establish standardized procedures to achieve consistent, high-quality results across our AI systems
Design and develop backend services and RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI, integrating seamlessly with ML pipelines and services
Take operational responsibility for team-owned services, including performance monitoring, optimization, troubleshooting, and participation in an on-call rotation
Collaborate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, including data and applied scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, to deliver reliable and scalable ML-driven products
Coach and mentor fellow ML engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence within the team
Employ a diverse set of tools and platforms including Python, AWS, Databricks, Docker, Kubernetes, FastAPI, Terraform, Snowflake, Coralogix, and GitHub to build, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available machine learning infrastructure
Qualification
Required
9+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning engineering, AI development, software engineering, or related fields, emphasizing secure, large-scale, distributed system design, AI/ML pipeline development, and implementation
Extensive experience designing, developing, and operating scalable backend systems, applying software engineering best practices such as domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and microservices
Deep expertise in agentic workflows, AI evaluation solutions, prompt management, and secure AI development and testing practices
Strong knowledge of relational and document-based databases, data storage paradigms, and efficient RESTful API design
Experience establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit and integration), and deployment practices
Strong leadership skills, including effective planning and management of complex projects, mentoring of team members, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture
Excellent communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred)
Proficient in Python and provisioning cloud-based infrastructure via code (AWS preferred)
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred)
Proficient in Python and provisioning cloud-based infrastructure via code (AWS preferred)
Sense of humor is optional but appreciated
Benefits
Competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits
Financial assistance for things like hybrid work, family planning, along with generous parental leave, flexible time-off policies, and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being
Learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow
Diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups
Volunteering program
Company
GoFundMe
GoFundMe is the world’s largest fundraising platform, helping people, causes, and charities raise money fast and efficiently.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2015-07-02Series A
2014-04-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Timothy Cadogan
CEO
Steve Froehlich
Chief Customer Growth Officer
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