Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
Hiire is helping a wellfunded UKbased startup hire a Senior Backend Engineer for their new office in Porto.
The company
Our customer is a business identity platform that enables the onboarding of businesses of any size easily and instantly. Our products create trust for financial service providers (our customers) to verify onboard and monitor businesses (their clients) seamlessly.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Natural Language Processing) to join our team. You will be an early shaper of the design and architecture of the core AI technology powering the product and work closely with the founding team to deliver 10x value to our clients.
As an earlystage startup we pride ourselves on our ability to roll up our sleeves and build from scratch. We will be shipping code frequently and learning as we go while satisfying all critical security performance and uptime requirements for our clients.
We all love to build scale and grow: Our leadership team has experience building products scaling teams and optimizing for growth while working with ambitious engineers from tech unicorns.
If youre passionate about building products that make a complex problem easy this job is for you. As one of the first engineering hires youll have the opportunity to shape both the product and the engineering culture. You should be ready to move fast embrace uncertainty and wear different hats.
Responsibilities
- Develop ML functionality at the core of our platform;
- Train and evaluate models for intelligent document processing web data parsing classification search and matching;
- Implement productionlevel code to seamlessly integrate models into the main application;
- Influence and shape the data science culture within the organization;
- Continuously enhance data science practices and processes to align with the industrys best standards.
Qualifications
- Effective and selfdriven builder;
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field;
- 5 years of experience in machine learning and/or data science;
- 3 years of experience in Natural Language Processing
- LLMs classical NLP methods
- NER models
- syntax parsers
- text embeddings & approximate nearest neighbors search;
- Experience with any of the following NLP tasks
- named entity recognition
- intelligent document processing
- website parsing & classification
- sentiment analysis
- information retrieval
- entity matching & linking
- spelling correction;
- Strong knowledge of Mathematical Statistics;
- Algorithms & Data Structures ML Theory;
- Strong knowledge of Python & SQL;
- Experience training & finetuning Transformers or Large Language Models (Huggingface Transformers OpenAI Llama 2 Langchain);
- Experience serving Neural Networks in production (PyTorch ONNX TorchServe Triton);
- Experience developing & maintaining production ML services;
- Experience with adhoc analytics data visualisation and BI tools (Superset Redash Metabase);
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow Prefect);
- Experience writing data processing pipelines & ETL (Python Apache Spark);
- Experience with web sing;
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment;
- Work authorisation in Portugal.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive salary package (including equity);
- Flexible working policy (hybrid);
- Standard benefits;
- 22 vacation days;
- Sick days and compassionate leave as needed.
Employment Type
Full Time
