Job title : Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Job Location : South Africa,
Deadline : December 21, 2024
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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.
You are responsible for:
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 in 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.
Required skills and experience:
5+ years of experience in an MLE and/or MLOps role as part of a team maintaining production models
Experience with popular Python ML libraries
Strong ML background, particularly solving NLP tasks
Strong English language skills
Experience with global coworkers
Experience with remote work and/or async work
Additionally, we'd love it if you have:
Experience in fine-tuning pre-trained models
Familiarity with ETL processes and data pipeline orchestration
Experience with any pipeline orchestration tool (Airflow, Kubeflow, Argo workflows etc)
Qualities that are important to us:
Great coworker on remote teams
Experience with volunteer communities and open-source software development
Positivity and solution focused
Independently motivated
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