Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About Child Mind Institute

Were dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. Weve become the leading independent nonprofit in childrens mental health by providing gold-standard evidence-based care delivering educational resources to millions of families each year training educators in underserved communities and developing tomorrows breakthrough treatments.

Position Details:

As the Senior Machine Learning (ML) Engineer you will apply expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop and implement innovative ML solutions that have the potential to make a significant impact in the lives of children and adolescents struggling with mental health issues. You will work with researchers clinicians and software engineers within DAIR and across departments to design prototype deploy and maintain applied ML solutions to enhance our digital mental health tools.

This is an exempt full-time hybrid position located in our NYC headquarters office. The in-office requirement and schedule are subject to change based on the needs of the program and the organization. This position requires a minimum of four (4) days per week in the office on a schedule determined by your supervisor.

You Will:

Design implement and maintain machine learning models with a focus on NLP and LLMs for real-world application in the mental health field.

Perform analyses on large datasets using high-performance computing infrastructures.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML solutions into research projects and mental health tools.

Develop and maintain data pipelines for training evaluating and deploying models.

Leverage expertise to create innovative solutions to complex problems using state-of-the-art ML methods.

Ensure data quality security and compliance with privacy regulations.

Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.

You Have:

Masters degree in Neuroscience Psychology Engineering Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience.

8 years of experience in data analysis and data science fundamentals (e.g. algorithms data structures data visualization machine learning).

8 years of experience in at least one scientific programming language (e.g. Python/R Matlab) and related toolboxes or frameworks (e.g. Tidyverse Scipy Sklearn Polars Pytorch) is required.

5 years of experience working in a Linux environment using version control systems (e.g. GitHub) and software virtualization platforms (e.g. Docker).

3 years of practical experience developing and designing production-oriented machine learning technologies and systems including hands-on experience in NLP and modern ML/ (e.g. pytorch tensorflow SpaCy HuggingFace NLTK).

Experience can be concurrent with education.

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Pay Range

The salary range for the position is posted. Factors such as candidates work experience education/training job-related skills internal peer equity as well as market and business considerations affect the salary offered within this addition this salary may be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state and depending on the role) if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

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