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Block · 1 day ago

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$277K/yr - $415K/yr

12+ years exp

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment through various foundational teams. They are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build AI-powered solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Leverage AI to automate workflows and deliver new AI-powered product experiences

Develop scalable AI systems and platforms

Collaborate across diverse teams to develop AI solutions by understanding and generalizing the problems of cross-functional stakeholders

Lead AI innovation by building and open sourcing advanced frameworks and tools to enhance workflows and set industry standards

Drive alignment with Block's AI strategy by acting as a company AI expert and educating other teams about how to apply cutting-edge AI to their domains

Support the adoption of AI best practices across the company by providing guidance and sharing expertise

Qualification

Machine LearningAI product developmentMLOpsCloud computingLarge Language ModelsCommunicationProblem solving

Required

12+ years of experience in training and deploying ML models, developing ML software, and shipping customer-facing ML products

Deep understanding of modern ML techniques (e.g. Large Language Models) and the ML lifecycle from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models

Ruthless pragmatism when solving new and unconventional problems

A desire to understand our clients' needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems. As a platform team, our main customers are internal developers and products

Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring as well as the ability to quickly adapt to a new domain, hack MVP's, and iterate to improve product

Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases

Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Company

Block

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Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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