Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI

Requirements:

• 6+ years experience as a Machine Learning engineer building tooling and services for machine learning applications in production.
• Experience with designing and building machine learning tooling and infrastructure for training, deploying, inference and validation of models.
• Experience with distributed systems and platforms for AI integrations across a breadth of applications such as LLM APIs, Cloud based and open source tooling.
• Leading architecture designs to execution independently and track record of improving the team’s overall AI development velocity.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams.
• Effective documentation and communication skills on a distributed team.

Nice to Haves:

• Knowledge of and experience with using LLM solutions across different cloud providers
• You have previously successfully contributed to an open source project.
• Track record of not only building one, but multiple projects deployed with an active user base.
• Experience with responsible AI, transparent algorithms, and putting users’ needs first.
• Excellent communication skills, both in written and presentation form. You have the ability to quickly distill sophisticated topics into concepts that are tailored for your target audience.
• You are a lifelong learner, and continue to refine and improve your skills when you see an opportunity to do so.
• Experience with the browser extensions architecture or ecosystem.
• Experience working in open source environments.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the design, development, and integration of Generative AI solutions in Firefox, collaborating cross functionally with product management, full stack engineering and design.
• Build infrastructure for training and inference of LLMs and small language and vision models for use cases on the web and mobile Firefox product experiences.
• Implement robust validation and testing procedures to ensure the developed models' generalizability and reliability
• Continuously monitor and optimize deployed models for performance and efficiency

Perks and Benefits:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)