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Staff machine learning engineer

248k – 298kNew York, NYSan Francisco, CADenver, COOnsite8+ YOE
Summary

Technical leader building AI tools using LLMs and embeddings to help companies measure and reduce carbon emissions. Requires 8+ years in ML/AI engineering, full lifecycle experience, and strong full-stack skills.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Prototype, develop and iterate on new product areas for Watershed, giving our customers powerful AI tools for transforming data and identifying ways to reduce their emissions
  • Productionize and launch core technologies to power AI features on top of a wealth of operational sustainability data
  • Collaborate with product and other AI engineering teams to set product and technical strategy
  • Build evals, fine tune, create agent harnesses to build reliable AI powered systems
  • Keep up with developments and state-of-the-art in AI to determine what is relevant to Watershed
  • Write performant, well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in Machine Learning / AI engineering
  • Experience building products using LLMs, embeddings and other ML technologies
  • Full lifecycle experience of building, deploying and monitoring products that leverage LLMs, embeddings or other ML technologies
  • Experience leading cross functional teams in an innovative fast moving environment
  • A strong foundational understanding of machine learning models and practice, including model evaluation and performance
  • Strong full-stack development skills
Skills
LLMsEmbeddingsMachine LearningAIModel EvaluationFine-tuningAgent HarnessesFull-stack DevelopmentPythonKubernetes
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