Machine Learning Engineer
Scale is looking for a Machine Learning engineer to join our Machine Learning Infrastructure team to help build systems that accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning models, especially large language models (LLMs). You will partner closely with Machine Learning researchers and customers to understand requirements and apply your own domain expertise to build high performance and reusable APIs.
The ideal candidate is someone who has strong ML fundamentals and can also apply them in real production settings. In particular, this role has a core focus on optimizing inference and fine tuning for LLMs. They should also be comfortable with infrastructure and large scale system design, as well as diagnosing both model performance and system failures.
- Role:
- Build highly available, observable, performant, and cost-effective APIs for model inference and fine tuning for LLMs.
- Engage with ML researchers and stay up to date on the latest trends from industry and academia.
- Participate in our team’s on call process to ensure the availability of our services.
- Be a self-starter who can own projects end-to-end, from requirements, scoping, design, to implementation.
- Have good taste in building systems and tools and know when to make build vs. buy tradeoffs, as well as having an eye for cost efficiency.
- Have attention to detail and a good sense for automation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- SF or NYC based and able to be in person.
- 2+ years of experience building machine learning training pipelines or inference services in a production setting.
- Experience with LLM deployment, fine tuning, training, prompt engineering, etc.
- Experience with LLM inference latency optimization techniques, e.g. quantization, DeepSpeed, etc.
- Nice to haves
- Experience working with a cloud technology stack (eg. AWS or GCP).
- Experience building, deploying, and monitoring complex microservice architectures.
- Experience with Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as code (e.g. terraform).
About Us:
At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how machine learning can build innovative products. Our products provide access to human-powered data for hundreds of use cases and are used by industry leaders such as Open AI, Lyft, Meta, GM, Samsung, Airbnb, NVIDIA, and many more. We’ve recently raised $325 million in Series E funding at a valuation of $7B+ and are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
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