Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Hybrid role in Palo Alto, CA)

Who We Are

OpenTeams is the services marketplace where open source software users can find, vet, and contract with service providers. At OpenTeams we believe in a culture of do-ers, learners, and collaborators. We are looking for people who are motivated, humble, curious, and respectful of others. In order to meet the demands of our high growth business, we are looking for talented individuals to provide insights, solutions, and strategy to our internal leadership team and client partners. 

Client: Start-up Full stack AGI company building next-gen models, infrastructure and silicon inspired by principles from neuroscience and physics

Duration: Contract to Hire

Location: Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)

Pay: $80/hr. – $100/hr. 

You will work with our client’s machine learning and product teams to improve their machine learning models, infrastructure, and datasets as well as integrating this technology into their products, and building out the product suite. This role is located at the interface between specialized ML and product roles; the engineer will also serve as a jack-of-all-trades tackling problems wherever they arise in our stack.

The role will include the following responsibilities:

• Aiding ML engineers in pretraining and finetuning our specialized foundation models
• Utilizing and finetuning existing open-source models for product development
• Creating datasets and pipelines for finetuning specialized models across various modalities
• Building out specialized product features and infrastructure around our ML models
• Performing research and keeping up with the latest academic research in order to translate breakthroughs into real products

This role is a contract to hire position in Palo Alto, CA and would require in-person attendance at our client’s office 2-3 days/week.

Skills and abilities

• High level of general programming skill and aptitude, Python strongly preferred but not absolutely required
• High level of aptitude in machine learning, experience with Pytorch and LLMs preferable, but not required
• Research skills, as evidenced by graduate level education (PhD preferred) and scientific publications are a strong nice-to-have
• Experience with standard web programming (backend, frontend, etc.) and general product development are nice-to-have
• Ability to develop and maintain codebases from scratch in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to be independent and self-motivated and take responsibility for leading significant projects
• Ability to learn new skills and adapt quickly, along with strong communication skills are important

Why You Should Join

You’ll become an important part of a collaborative, remote-first team. We are a passionate and ambitious team, with a proven record of success building multiple companies. We strive to provide a working environment that gives you room to learn and grow. OpenTeams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for recruitment, interviews, employment, training, compensation, promotion, and related activities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any and all other protected classes and in accordance with all applicable laws.