Machine Learning Engineer, Fraud EPD New York, NY

Company: Scale AI, Inc.
Location: New York
Posted on: January 24, 2025

Job Description:

At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we're accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations.About This RoleThis role will lead the development of trust & safety models to detect fraud & violations on our platform at large scale. The ideal candidate will have experience in industry working on trust & safety to detect misuse via account and behavioral signals. Successful candidates will be impact oriented, have strong foundations in machine learning, and experience in deploying ML services to production. This position requires not only expertise in classical machine learning but familiarity with neural networks and large language models, along with strong intuitions in regards to testing detection systems in the presence of extreme class imbalance. You will contribute to the future of AI by ensuring we deliver high quality data to leading foundation model builders by ensuring that the contributors on our platform are trustworthy and high quality.Ideally you'd have:

• Practical experience deploying machine learning models to production in a microservices cloud environment.
• Familiarity with LLMs and proficiency in frameworks like scikit-learn, Pytorch, Jax, or Tensorflow. You should also be adept at interpreting research literature and quickly turning new ideas into prototypes.
• At least three years of experience addressing sophisticated ML problems, either in a research setting or product development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to operate cross-functionally.
• Experience working with cloud technology stack (e.g., AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment.Nice to have:
  • Hands-on production experience developing models for detecting trust & safety violations.
  • A track record of published research in top ML venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with open source LLM fine-tuning or involvement in bespoke LLM fine-tuning projects using Pytorch/Jax.Compensation: Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training.The base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is: $176,000 - $220,000 USD.About Us:At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an affirmative action employer and inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com.
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