Machine Learning Engineer
You're looking for a team where you can drive decisions, be challenged and contribute valuable internal research to a larger research community. You want to collaborate with smart, creative, and energetic people. You’re comfortable with being uncomfortable. You look for projects where you can learn new technologies and techniques. You’re comfortable designing, developing, testing, and launching software. You’re creative. And if this sounds like you, you sound like someone we want on our team.
New Knowledge is on a mission to defend public discourse. We build products that repair online communities, identify manipulation, and help them communicate more authentically. In a world where social media is being manipulated on a massive scale, this is no small task. We care about protecting communities, brands, and companies from being targeted by the spreading of disinformation. The kind of people who work with us have to be passionate about that challenge and mission.
While we take our mission very seriously, we are also a team of fun-loving, laid-back, self described geeks who love tacos and topo chico.
What you’ll do:
Work with data scientists to deploy and build machine learning models
Interface with research teams to help build APIs to make our models accessible
Understand how machine learning models work, and how they could possibly apply
Build test frameworks to ensure reliable prediction outputs
Interface with Devops to build deployment tools to automate ML model deployments
Who you are:
You’re comfortable coding, and have a strong technical foundation
You’re interested in working with, and understanding machine learning models
You’re comfortable with Python
You have a passion for learning
You’ve had 3+ years experience developing and deploying machine learning model pipelines at scale in a fast-paced startup environment
Preferably you enjoy working with academics or have a research background
You’re enjoy working with, and learning from academics
You’re comfortable experimenting, and care about building reliable software
You’re creative and tenacious - you don’t give up
You understand the value and enjoy working as a part of a team
Building cool things that work excites you
You thrive off the energy and pace of a small team
You’re adaptable and looking for new things to work on
Why we love working here:
Chance to work on something we feel passionate about with smart, enthusiastic people
Competitive salary and healthcare
A business that trusts and embraces technology
A leadership team that wants to do it right and is open to new ideas
Lots of available and free parking
Unlimited vacation (and no, that is not code for you never take a vacation, we encourage and value time off)
Generous maternity and paternity leave (we love our families!)
Stocked kitchen full of healthy snacks
Professional development opportunities