Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whatnot is hiring a Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build and scale infrastructure powering machine learning and self-hosted large language model applications. The role focuses on productionizing ML models, large-model serving, and distributed GPU training and inference across the company.
Responsibilities
- Own the infrastructure powering AI and ML models across critical business surfaces–supporting growth, recommendations, trust and safety, fraud, seller tooling, and more
- Prototype, deploy, and productionalize novel ML architectures that directly shape user experience and marketplace dynamics
- Design and scale inference infrastructure capable of serving large models with low latency and high throughput
- Build distributed training and inference pipelines leveraging GPUs and both model and data parallelism
- Stretch beyond your comfort zone to take on new technical challenges as we scale AI across Whatnot’s ecosystem
Skills
- 7+ years of professional experience developing machine learning systems and algorithms
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems for consumer-scale loads
- 1+ years of professional experience developing software in Python
- Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
- Experience with operational, search, and key-value databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis
- Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Apache Kafka, Flink
- Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested, reproducible work
- Exceptional documentation and communication skills
Benefits
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work; company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence
- Flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs
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