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Block · 2 days ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$194K/yr - $343K/yr

8+ years exp

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment, utilizing Machine Learning and AI across its products. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to develop scalable ML/AI systems and collaborate with diverse teams to enhance platform solutions and support critical ML systems.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop scalable ML/AI systems and platforms

Be on the cutting edge of advancements in ML/AI across the industry

Collaborate across diverse teams to deliver impactful platform solutions by understanding and generalizing the problems of cross-functional stakeholders

Support critical ML systems used for fraud detection, language models, recommendation systems and underwriting

Influence our roadmap and ensure we're working on the highest impact problems within the ML infrastructure domain

Qualification

Machine LearningML InfrastructureCloud ComputingProduction Quality CodeMLOpsTechnical Stakeholder EngagementSoftware DevelopmentData GatheringModel EvaluationDeep LearningPythonGolangTypeScriptReactGRPCAWSNVIDIA TritonONNXCommunicationCollaborationAdaptabilityProblem Solving

Required

8+ years of experience in software development and/or machine learning experience with a focus on internal platforms or infrastructure

Deep understanding of architectures for ML-backed solutions and the ML lifecycle - from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models (both classical ML and deep learning/LLMs)

A desire to understand our clients' needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems. As a platform team, our main customers are internal developers and products

Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring as well as the ability to quickly adapt to a new domain, hack MVP's, and iterate to improve product

Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases

Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred

Golang, Python, TypeScript, React

gRPC, Protocol Buffers

AWS (Sagemaker, EC2, EKS), Databricks

NVIDIA Triton, vLLM, ONNX

Benefits

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Company

Block

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Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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