Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Search & Apply.io is a company that provides a scalable platform for deploying Enterprise AI Agents and AI Assistants. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and build AI systems, train and deploy ML models, and enhance their AI platform's capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, research and build AI systems for Vectara
- Train, evaluate and deploy ML models in the domains of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, AI Agents, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Model (MMLLMs)
- Improve the quality of Vectara’s AI Agents and RAG-as-a-service platform, working on features like agentic behavior, hallucination reduction/correction, and agent orchestration
- Publish technical blogs, papers, and patents
Skills
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 8+/7+ years of professional work experience after BS/MS applying machine learning to real-world problems, and crafting scalable and effective ML/AI solutions
- Strong domain knowledge in at least one of the following: RAG, LLM, information retrieval, Multimodal LLMs
- Excellent programming skills in Python. Proficiency in data/ML libraries such as pandas, transformers, and torch
- Familiarity with the technical details of deep learning concepts, such as Transformers, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), mixture of experts (MoE)
- Hands-on experience in training ML systems end-to-end from data curation to evaluation and deployment
- PhD in Computer Science/Engineering with 3+ years of industry experience
- Publications in prestigious venues such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR as a key author
- Experience as an ML engineer in an early-stage, high growth environment
- Expertise in the following areas: Embedding models, rerankers, Multimodal retrieval, question answering, and reasoning, Vector databases, BM25, Planning and reasoning in LLMs, Multilinguality in LLMs, NLG Evaluation such as hallucination detection
Benefits
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision begins on your first day!
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, and company rest days.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities and more.
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