Staff Software Engineer, Applied Research, Foundation User Models

Job description

Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in software development. - 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. - 5 years of experience with ML design (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine-tuning). - Experience with Transformer-based models (e.g., BERT, T5, GPT, ViT), including attention mechanisms and architecture variations. Preferred qualifications: Understanding of modern recommendation architectures (e.g., two-tower models, sequential user modeling) and how to integrate Large Foundation Models into existing ranking/retrieval stacks.Understanding of modern recommendation architectures (e.g., two-tower models, sequential user modeling) and how to integrate Large Foundation Models into existing ranking/retrieval stacks. - Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms. - 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. - 3 years of experience wo...