# Staff Machine Learning Engineer

**Company:** [Hive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hive)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Neural Networks
**Posted:** 2021-12-10

> Develops, deploys, and optimizes state-of-the-art ML models for production at scale, handling terabyte datasets and neural networks. Requires 8+ years experience, expertise in PyTorch/TensorFlow/Python, and focus in CV/NLP.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, code, train, tune, deploy, and analyze ML models for production use cases at scale with high throughput and uptime.
- Write and maintain scalable, performant code shared across platforms.
- Contribute to product and core backend systems with improvements.
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Develop novel, accurate, performant ML algorithms.
- Conduct metric-driven research experiments to improve model performance.
- Provide mentorship and onboarding to ML engineers.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration.
- Contribute to strategic direction and roadmap planning.
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data handling.

## Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related field.
- **8+ years** of experience building web applications.
- Experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices.
- Delivered scalable backend APIs.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with bias towards action.
- Experience writing code and training across distributed systems.
- Ability to understand and make well-reasoned tradeoffs in feature design.
- **Expert** in machine learning frameworks such as **PyTorch** or **TensorFlow**.
- **Expert** in scripting languages such as **Python** and/or shell scripts for data analysis.
- Subject matter expert in at least one ML focus area (e.g., **computer vision** or **natural language processing**).
- Lead end-to-end development of new products.

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