Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Your opportunity

As a crucial member of our team, you'll play a pivotal role across the entire machine learning lifecycle, contributing to our conversational AI bots, RAG system and traditional ML problem solving for our observability platform.

Your tasks will encompass both operational and engineering aspects, including building production-ready inference pipelines, deploying and versioning models, and implementing continuous validation processes. 

On the LLM side you'll fine-tune generative AI models, design agentic language chains, and prototype recommender system experiments.

What you'll do

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to contribute significantly to our machine learning initiatives, shaping the future of AI-driven solutions in various domains. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in machine learning and ready to take on diverse challenges, we encourage you to apply and join us in our journey towards innovation.

This role requires

• Proficiency in software engineering design practices.
• Experience working with transformer models and text embeddings.
• Proven track record of deploying and managing ML models in production environments.
• Familiarity with common ML/NLP libraries such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers, and SpaCy.
• 5+ years of developing production-grade applications in Python.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes and containers.
• Familiarity with concepts/libraries such as sklearn, kubeflow, argo, and seldon.
• Expertise in Python, C++, Kotlin, or similar programming languages.
• Experience designing, developing, and testing scalable distributed systems.
• Familiarity with message broker systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Knowledge of application instrumentation and monitoring practices.
• Experience with ML workflow management, like AirFlow, Sagemaker, etc.
• Fine-tuning generative AI models to enhance performance.
• Designing AI Agents for conversational AI applications.
• Experimenting with new techniques to develop models for observability use cases
• Building and maintaining inference pipelines for efficient model deployment.
• Managing deployment and model versioning pipelines for seamless updates.
• Developing tooling to continuously validate models in production environments.

Bonus points if you have

• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem.
• Past projects involving the construction of agentic language chains

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to resume@newrelic.com.

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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