Senior NLP / ML Engineer - Team Lead
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be a key contributor to the design, development, and operation of Algolia’s NLP-related features
- Help the team plan, execute and ship releases respecting timelines and high quality development, working closely with the product and leadership teams
- Develop high impact solutions to support Algolia's AI ambitious growth plans
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to recommending a solution and testing it in controlled experiments
- Mentor other engineers to excel at their work and grow
- Ability to grow as a team lead or manager
REQUIREMENTS
- 4+ years of professional experience as ML engineer, preferable working on natural language problems
- Strong engineering skills with expertise in Python and fluency in natural language processing (tokenization, word embeddings, language models) and machine learning (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Transformer) tools & libraries
- Experience in implementing best practices for monitoring and maintaining ML models in a production environment
- Previously built, trained and shipped models on cloud services
- An ability to identify and prioritize high-impact problems and deliver solutions that provide reasonable trade-offs between urgency and quality
- Self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership
- Willing and able to speaking at tech and industry conferences
- Excellent spoken and written English skills required
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
PERKS
- Competitive pay and equity
- Coaching and sponsorship to participate and speak at leading industry conferences
- Ongoing professional education opportunities through internal & external workshops, including public speaking, language learning (English/French)
- Fun: we spend time together — team building, socializing and making tools that encourage getting to know teammates across offices and continents.
- Charitable contribution matching
- Unique referral rewards program: refer a candidate, and we’ll donate to your charity of choice
- Fully stocked kitchens
- Team workouts
- Meals & happy hours
BENEFITS
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Business Travel Insurance
- Relocation support
- Company Canteen (high standard)
- Flexible work hours and flexible time off