Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer

at  Wikimedia Foundation

SUMMARY

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join a small team spread across UTC -5 to UTC +3 (Eastern Americas, Europe, and Africa) and will report to the Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Ilias Sarantopoulos. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, developing, training, documenting, deploying, and managing production machine learning models. In this role, you will work with product teams, SREs, researchers, and the volunteer community on machine learning models making Wikipedia and similar projects better.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of experience in an MLE and/or MLOps role as part of a team deploying production models.
• Experience with popular Python ML libraries.
• Strong English language skills.
• Experience with global coworkers.
• Experience with remote work and/or async work.

• Working with internal customers (e.g. other teams inside the Wikimedia Foundation) and external customers (e.g. Wikipedia editors and other volunteers) to build, deploy, and manage productionized, scaled machine learning models. This includes communicating with the customers early to assess needs, working with them to scope out the appropriate tooling that might be needed, gathering the training data, training the model is a repeatable process, deploying the model on a deployment cluster, and monitoring that model over time.
• Helping other teams at the Foundation and the broader community understand the work conducted on the team.