Senior AI Engineer

ML Engineer

HackerPulse is a new and growing company. We help software engineers showcase their skills using AI powered profiles. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and implementation of advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions. You will play a crucial role in taking the innovative work done by our research team and turning it into practical solutions for production deployment. By applying to this job you agree to receive communication from us.

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Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to the development of software and solutions, emphasizing ML/NLP as a key component, to productize research goals and deployable services.
2. Collaborate closely with the frontend team and research team to integrate machine learning models into deployable services.
3. Utilize and develop state-of-the-art algorithms and models for NLP/ML, ensuring they align with the product and research objectives.
4. Perform thorough analysis to improve existing models, ensuring their efficiency and effectiveness in real-world applications.
5. Engage in data engineering tasks to clean, validate, and preprocess data for uniformity and accuracy, supporting the development of robust ML models.
6. Stay abreast of new developments in research and engineering in NLP and related fields, incorporating relevant advancements into the product development process.
7. Actively participate in agile development methodologies within dynamic research and engineering teams, adapting to evolving project requirements.
8. Collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams, fostering open communication and cooperation between research, development, and frontend teams.
9. Actively contribute to building an open, transparent, and collaborative engineering culture within the organization.
10. Demonstrate strong software engineering skills to ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of deployable ML services.
11. Take ownership of the end-to-end deployment process, including the deployment of ML models to production environments.
12. Work on continuous improvement of deployment processes and contribute to building a seamless pipeline for deploying and monitoring ML models in real-world applications.

Qualifications:

1. Degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent practical experience, with a strong emphasis on machine learning and natural language processing.
2. Proven experience and in-depth knowledge of ML techniques, with a focus on implementing deep-learning approaches for NLP tasks in the context of productizing research goals.
3. Ability to apply engineering best practices to make architectural and design decisions aligned with functionalities, user experience, performance, reliability, and scalability in the development of deployable ML services.
4. Substantial experience in software development using Python, Java, and/or C or C++, with a particular emphasis on integrating machine learning models into production-ready software solutions.
5. Demonstrated problem-solving skills, showcasing the ability to address complex situations effectively, especially in the context of improving models, data engineering, and deployment processes.
6. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, essential for effective collaboration within cross-functional teams consisting of research, development, and frontend teams.
7. Proven time management skills to handle dynamic and agile development situations, ensuring timely delivery of solutions in a fast-paced environment.
8. Self-motivated contributor who frequently takes initiative to enhance the codebase and share best practices, contributing to the development of an open, transparent, and collaborative engineering culture.

Branch Overview

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in San Francisco, Lagos, Mumbai, Nairobi, and Tanzania, Branch is a for-profit, socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone, everywhere, deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. 

The founder and former CEO of Kiva.org leads the Branch’s mission-driven team. The company presents a rich opportunity for our team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. Most recently, Branch announced our Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms.

We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where human beings of all backgrounds can thrive. 

Job Overview

Branch launched in India in early 2019 and has seen rapid adoption and growth. We are looking for talented Machine Learning Engineers to join us and be part of this journey. You will work closely with other Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists to develop, improve, and deploy machine learning models and to solve other optimization problems. We make extensive use of machine learning in our credit product, where it is used (among other things) for underwriting and loan servicing decisions. We are also actively exploring other applications of Machine Learning in some of our newer products, with the ultimate goal of improving the user experience.

Machine Learning sits at the intersection of a number of different disciplines: Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Data Science, and others. At Branch, we fundamentally believe that in order for Machine Learning to be impactful, it needs to be closely embedded into the rest of the product development and software engineering process, which is why we emphasize the importance of software engineering skills and experience for this role.

As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. As an engineering team, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making. We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and we are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative, and customer-focused setting.

Here are some things you’ll do

• Credit Decisions: Core to our business is understanding and building signals from unstructured and structured data to identify good borrowers.
• Customer Service: Using machine learning and NLP, automate customer service interactions and provide context to our customer service team.
• Fraud Prevention: Identify patterns of fraudulent behavior and build models to detect and prevent these behaviors.
• Team work: Bring your experience to bear on the technical direction and abilities of the team, and work cross-functionally with policy and product teams as we improve processes and break new ground.

Minimum Requirements

We’re looking for a motivated and versatile engineer who understands the needs of a startup.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building software in a production environment. Startup or early-stage team experience is preferred.
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with various business stakeholders and company leadership on critical functional decisions and technical roadmap.
• Excellent software engineering and programming skills, especially Python and SQL.
• A diverse range of data skills, including experimentation, statistics, and machine learning, and have used these skills to inform business decisions.
• A deep understanding of using cloud computing infrastructure and data pipelines in production.
• Self motivation: You teach yourself new skills. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise. You roll up your sleeves and get stuff done.
• Team motivation: You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions. You are a great collaborator and teacher.
• The drive to make a positive impact on customers' lives.

Benefits of Joining

• Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
• Fully-paid Group Medical Insurance and Personal Accidental Insurance
• Unlimited paid time off including personal leave, bereavement leave, sick leave
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity leave and 3 months paternity leave
• Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
• $500 Annual professional development budget 
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance 
• Team meals and social events- Virtual and In-person

Branch International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not and will not discriminate in employment on any basis prohibited by applicable law. We’re looking for more than just qualifications -- so if you’re unsure that you meet the criteria, please do not hesitate to apply!

Data engineers:

Designing and building optimized data pipelines using cutting-edge technologies in a cloud environment to drive analytical insights.This would also include develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and builds out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity

Constructing infrastructure for efficient ETL processes from various sources and storage systems.

Collaborating closely with Product Managers and Business Managers to design technical solutions aligned with business requirements.

Leading the implementation of algorithms and prototypes to transform raw data into useful information.

Architecting, designing, and maintaining database pipeline architectures, ensuring readiness for AI/ML transformations.

Creating innovative data validation methods and data analysis tools.

Ensuring compliance with data governance and security policies.

Interpreting data trends and patterns to establish operational alerts.

Developing analytical tools, utilities, and reporting mechanisms.

Conducting complex data analysis and presenting results effectively.

Preparing data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.

Continuously exploring opportunities to enhance data quality and reliability.

Applying strong programming and problem-solving skills to develop scalable solutions.

Writes unit/integration tests, contributes towards documentation work

Must have ....

6 to 8 years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, testing, maintaining, monitoring, and owning scalable, resilient, and distributed data pipelines.

High proficiency in Scala/Java/ Python API frameworks/ Swagger and Spark for applied large-scale data processing.

Expertise with big data technologies, API development (Flask,,including Spark, Data Lake, Delta Lake, and Hive.

Solid understanding of batch and streaming data processing techniques.

Proficient knowledge of the Data Lifecycle Management process, including data collection, access, use, storage, transfer, and deletion.

Expert-level ability to write complex, optimized SQL queries across extensive data volumes.

Experience with RDBMS and OLAP databases like MySQL, Redshift.

Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Obsession for service observability, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting.

Knowledge or experience in architectural best practices for building data pipelines.

Good to Have:

Passion for testing strategy, problem-solving, and continuous learning.

Willingness to acquire new skills and knowledge.

Possess a product/engineering mindset to drive impactful data solutions.

Experience working in distributed environments with teams scattered geographically.

The Role:

As an ML Engineer at TIFIN, you will be responsible for driving research and innovation in a result-oriented direction. Your role will involve staying updated on the latest research trends and exploring advancements in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and their applications in conversational AI. You will also play a mentoring role and contribute to improving NLU capabilities using transfer learning from historical conversational data.

Requirements:

• Experience with training and fine-tuning machine learning models on large text datasets.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and at least 3 years of software development experience.
• Track record of thinking big and finding simple solutions while dealing with ambiguity.
• Proven experience as a Natural Language Processing Engineer or in similar roles.
• Good understanding of NLP tricks and techniques for semantic extraction, data structure, and modeling.
• Familiarity with text representation techniques, algorithms, and statistics.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as R, Python, and Java.
• Proficiency in Machine Learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Ability to design software architectures and solve complex problems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in projects related to information retrieval, machine comprehension, entity recognition, text classification, semantic frame parsing, or machine translation is a plus.
• Publications, patents, or conference talks in relevant fields are a bonus.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You will be involved in directly driving application of machine learning and AI to solve various product and business problems including ML model lifecycle management with ideation, experimentation, implementation, and maintenance.

• Your responsibilities will include enabling the team in moving forward with ML/AI solutions to optimise various components across our music streaming platforms.

• Your work would be impacting millions of users the way they consume music and podcasts, it would involve solving cold start problems, understanding user personas, optimising ranking and improving recommendations for serving relevant content to users.

• We are looking for a seasoned engineer to orchestrate our recommendations and discovery projects and also be involved in tech management within the team.

• The team of talented, passionate people in which you’ll work will include ML engineers and data scientists.

• You’ll be reporting directly to the head of the engineering and will be

instrumental in discussing and explaining the progress to top management and other stake holders.

• You’ll be expected to have regular conversations with product leads and other engineering leads to understand the requirements, and also similar and more frequent conversation with your own team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A machine learning software engineer with a passion for working on exciting, user impacting product and business problems

• Stay updated with latest research in machine learning esp. recommender systems and audio signals

• Have taken scalable ML services to production, maintained and managed their lifecycle

• Good understanding of foundational mathematics associated with machine learning such as statistics, linear algebra, optimization, probabilistic models

Minimum Qualifications

• 13+ years of industry experience doing applied machine learning

• 5+ years of experience in tech team management

• Fluent in one or more object oriented languages like Python, C++, Java

• Knowledgeable about core CS concepts such as common data structures an algorithms

• Comfortable conducting design and code reviews

• Comfortable in formalising a product or business problem as a ML problem

• Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field

• Industry experience with large scale recommendation and ranking systems

• Experience in managing team of 10-15 engineers

• Hands on experience with Spark, Hive, Flask, Tensorflow, XGBoost, Airflow

We are looking for an ambitious Co-founder and CTO to join and support our growth at Spacenos. The Person we are looking for will fill an entrepreneurial C-Level role and will enrich our team with the product development and delivery skills.

Skills Required

• 3+ years of experience as a technology leader. 
• Skilled in Java, ReactJs, Firebase, Google Cloud.
• Applied knowledge of Cloud Security, AWS, Machine Learning, AI and Tensorflow.
• Strong communication and team management skills. 
• Excellent resource handling and understanding of scaling principles. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and understand technological roadmap
• Develop feature rollout systems and processes
• Hire and manage outside/contracted engineering talent
• Structure and lead teams, individuals, and cross-functional relationships in a way that ensures productivity and communication.
• Collaborate with other teams to optimize user experience of products.
• Drive modern engineering principles and practices by implementing relevant techniques, processes, and best practices
• Clearly articulate plans and projects to both senior level executives and more junior team members.

Spacenos is the fastest-growing start-up which is innovating in the finance, edtech and marketing domain since 2015 and won multiple awards and recognitions from more than 40+ MNCs and Fortune 500 companies. Our Clients are based out of the U.S.A and Australia. We are funded & Supported by Government of Karnataka, Angel Investors and International Grants.

1. Apply for your CV and past work to be reviewed.
2. Receive a telephonic interview or assessment upon filling the final step form.

3. Receive offer letter if selected.

Our hiring process takes less than 24 hours from the time you receive the Final Step form.

Validity: Up to Dec 2023

- Apply soon, the earliest applicant would be preferred over the late applicants.

About the company: https://www.hectar.in/

Hectar Global is a financial technology company that provides a disruptive cross-border trading platform for the agricultural commodities market. Our platform utilizes machine learning and data analysis to provide insights and improve the trading experience for farmers, traders, and other stakeholders in the agricultural industry. Our mission is to bring transparency and efficiency to the agricultural commodities market, which has traditionally been fragmented and opaque. We are committed to driving innovation in the industry and providing a user-friendly and accessible platform for our customers.

Job Overview: 

We are seeking a highly skilled Head of Engineering to lead the development of our innovative and disruptive cross-border trading platform at Hectar Global. This person will be responsible for spearheading all technical aspects of the project, from architecture and infrastructure to data and machine learning.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers, including hiring, training, and mentoring
• Design and implement the technical architecture of the cross-border trading platform
• Ensure the platform is scalable, efficient, and secure
• Oversee the development of data models and machine learning algorithms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product and design, to ensure the platform meets user needs and is visually appealing and easy to use
• Work with stakeholders to identify business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system specifications, design documents, and user manuals
• Keep up to date with emerging trends and technologies in software engineering, machine learning, and data science
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Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on web applications and machine learning
• Proven track record of leading and managing a team of engineers
• Expertise in software architecture and design patterns
• Experience with data modeling and machine learning techniques
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Strong knowledge of front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with modern web frameworks, such as React or Angular

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS or Azure
• Familiarity with data visualization tools, such as D3.js or Tableau
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of financial markets and trading platforms

If you are a passionate leader with a proven track record of building innovative and disruptive products and teams, we would love to hear from you.

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Job Summary
The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.