Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Cypress Group is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for a growing digital services company developing AI-powered product capabilities involving sensitive consumer information. The role will take machine learning projects from exploration through production, build language-model and data systems, establish evaluation and safety practices, and guide architecture while mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain machine learning features used in customer-facing products
- Develop applications that use language models, information retrieval, classification, ranking, and structured data extraction
- Turn unstructured content and user activity into useful signals for search, recommendations, personalization, and content organization
- Build dependable data and model pipelines for development, testing, production inference, and performance analysis
- Establish practical methods for evaluating accuracy, usefulness, safety, and business impact
- Create safeguards for sensitive use cases, including automated checks, human review, testing for misuse, and clear escalation procedures
- Monitor production systems for changes in quality, reliability, speed, and operating cost
- Work with product managers, software engineers, data specialists, and domain experts to translate business needs into measurable technical outcomes
- Guide technical architecture, develop shared engineering practices, and mentor other engineers
Skills
- - Substantial experience delivering machine learning systems in production
- - Advanced programming skills in Python or a comparable language
- - Hands-on experience with modern natural language processing and generative AI techniques
- - Strong understanding of machine learning, statistical analysis, experimentation, and model evaluation
- - Experience building reliable data, training, inference, and evaluation workflows
- - Familiarity with production practices such as automated testing, version control, repeatable deployments, observability, and incident response
- - Experience processing large datasets using cloud-based or distributed systems
- - Ability to turn loosely defined product questions into clear technical plans and success measures
- - Strong written and verbal communication across technical and nontechnical teams
- - Search, retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation systems, or ranking models
- - Products that handle sensitive information or operate in a regulated setting
- - Privacy, security, auditability, or responsible-AI reviews
- - Real-time data, product analytics, or controlled experiments
- - Rapid development of simple prototypes for user testing
- - Adversarial testing and defenses for language-model applications
- - Human-in-the-loop review systems
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