IBM Hiring for Senior ML Engineer – Watson Orders at Mountain View, CA

Introduction
Watson Orders is a IBM Silicon Valley based technology development group targeting the development of world-class conversational AI. Our mission is to deliver advanced technology solutions that address real-world, data driven needs in a customer-facing the quick service restaurant, environment. We are focused on using state-of-the-art Machine Learning, AI, and related technologies to completely transform the customer experience!

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking to hire a Senior ML Engineer to join our growing team! This is a hands-on technical role where you will spend most of your time designing, coding, and implementing ML solutions to intent and understanding problems, along with ongoing evaluation of model performance both in isolation as well as using results from production use cases. We are looking for someone who has expertise designing and implementing ML training pipelines as we improve and scale our conversational AI products. As a Senior ML Engineer, you are a ML specialist who will collaborate with other engineers to tackle complex algorithmic and architectural challenges. You will:

• Investigate and experiment with new model architectures to improve existing ML models, training pipelines, and run-time inference performance
• Creatively balance the demands of production-level software engineering with exploratory research and development
• Work with teams to develop and improve ML pipelines that go all the way from R&D to at-scale deployment

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Extensive experience working with large production codebases

• Experience using PyTorch, MxNet, TensorFlow, or similar tools

• Hands-on experience with ML model deployment and inference in a production environment

• Experience with sequence-to-sequence neural networks (e.g. LSTMs, GRUs, Transformers, etc) in any domain

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience developing production-level Python

• Ability to build NLP data pipelines and perform data transformations to fit deep learning models for language learning or understanding

• Experience with MLOps and/or ML at scale

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

Are you craving to learn more? Prepared to solve some of the world’s most unique challenges? And ready to shape the future for millions of people? If so, then it’s time to join us, express your individuality, unleash your curiosity and discover new possibilities.

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It’s time to define your career.

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM offers a wide range of resources for eligible IBMers to thrive both inside and outside of work. In addition to a competitive benefits program consisting of medical and life insurance, retirement plans, and time off, eligible employees may also have access to:

• 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. Family care options are also available to support eligible employees during COVID-19.
• World-class training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform. IBM’s learning culture supports your restless attitude to grow your skills and build the depth and scale of knowledge needed to achieve your career goals.

·Well-being programs to support mental and physical health. ·Financial programs that empower you to plan, save, and manage your money (including expert financial counseling, 401(k), IBM stock discount, etc.).

• Select educational reimbursement opportunities.
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups where you can network and connect with IBMers across the globe.
• Giving and volunteer programs to benefit charitable organizations and local communities.
• Discounts on retail products, services, and experiences.

The compensation range for this position is based on a full-time schedule. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.