Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Enterprise AI team is responsible for 7B$+ LOBs at LinkedIn across Hirer, Learning and Enterprise Jobs verticals. The Hirer AI team is responsible for connecting individuals to opportunities and is building the next generation recruiter platform consisting of GenAI powered tools such as AI assisted search and automated inMails. The exciting new charter of Hiring Assistant which will revolutionize recruiting workflows, is also LinkedIn's #1 priority.

The work in the team includes building, tuning and applying generative AI models where relevant, working with Open AI to power GAI applications where relevant and innovating on cutting edge search and recommendation models to retrieve the best candidates for a given role. As part of a new and fast growing team of top-notch scientists and engineers, you will experience all the excitement and dynamism of a startup along with the scale and technology of a world-class enterprise.  The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end model development and deployment of embeddings, retrieval, ranking, and classification models in large-scale production environments.  
• Build and deploy relevance models that power our various recommender systems and personalized intent engines.  
• Explore novel approaches for machine learning ranking and modeling downstream impact, as well as new ways of creating new product features by leveraging the cutting edge machine learning techniques in Generative AI, NLP.  
• Keep scalability and performance in mind through your design and engineering choices.  
• Work directly with partner data science, product, and infrastructure teams to take your ideas from conception to production.  
• Mentor junior ML engineers in applying advanced machine learning techniques to core problems such as entity resolution, lead scoring, and search relevance.  
• Represent LinkedIn in academic and industry circles by showcasing our innovation, data products and scientific expertise in bringing game-changing data products to market.  

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree OR Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of work experience.  
• 5+ years of experience in at least one of the following areas: Recommendation systems, Machine Learning, Statistical modeling/inference, Data mining, Graph/geometric deep learning, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Distributed Training.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in computer science, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline.  
• 5+ years of hands-on experience working on Recommendation systems, Machine Learning, Statistical modeling/inference, Data mining, Graph/geometric deep learning.  
• Large Language Models, Generative AI, Distributed Training.  
• Understanding of standard programming and software engineering practices.  
• Proven track record of publishing at academic and industry venues.  

Suggested Skills

• Machine Learning   
• Deep Learning   
• Generative-AI   
• Large Language Models   

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