Discord · 8 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety)
Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people every month, primarily for gaming. They are seeking an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Safety ML team, focusing on building and deploying machine learning models to enhance user safety.
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Responsibilities
Analyze data to identify risk patterns and inform the design of machine learning models
Build, iterate on, and evaluate models that detect risk and anomalous behavior
Work with product, engineering, legal, and Trust and Safety partners to deliver effective ML solutions
Work with partner teams in Trust & Safety to curate golden label sets at scale and improve data labeling techniques for model training
Deploy models into production systems, writing backend code as needed to ensure scalability and reliability, and monitor performance
Document modeling approaches and systems, and apply current machine learning best practices
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in ML engineering or applied ML roles
Strong coding skills in Python and fluency in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
Experience building performant machine learning systems at scale and have driven the execution of projects from ideation to production
Ability to think from first principles, approaching complex problems with creativity, clear reasoning, and pragmatic solutions
A growth mindset: seeking feedback, reflecting on decisions, and continuously improving
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a history of partnering effectively across engineering, data science, legal, policy, and product teams
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field (Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc
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Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
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