Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end model development: design, build, test and maintain machine learning systems and algorithms
• Lead machine learning system designs, set engineering standards, lead technical meetings and proactively engage and mentor other engineers
• Help debug, do code review, and support general machine learning initiatives led by other members of the Machine Learning team.
• Define data sourcing and labeling strategy for your technical domain, proactively identifying future data needs and partnering with the Sr. Technical Program Manager to drive planning and prioritization
• Work closely with specialists at Thorn to create data labeling guides and support labeling efforts. This may involve engaging with sexually explicit material that is not child sexual abuse material
• Look for opportunities to streamline and reuse work, proactively identifying cross-team dependencies. Anticipate technical risks across ML systems, define architectural guardrails, establish best practices for scalability and reliability
• Represent Thorn as a technical thought leader at conferences and other external forums, advancing the field and strengthening strategic partnerships
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, product owners, and designers to drive requirements, define scope of work, engage with users, and translate user needs into features and deliverables
• Collaborate with engineers on product teams to maintain and deploy models, algorithms and model serving infrastructure
• Look for opportunities, in collaboration with the Sr. Technical Program Manager, to improve the innovation -> impact cycle across product, academic collaborations, and other external partnerships

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