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Senior Data Researcher, Applied ML

Essential AI

Role Overview

Essential AI is seeking a Senior Data Researcher to join our Applied Machine Learning team in San Francisco. This role involves conducting research on techniques and methodologies to select and curate data that advances model capabilities and/or makes training more effective. Your work will directly impact our product use cases and overall data strategy, incorporating user feedback and industry knowledge.

Responsibilities

  • Experiment with strategies for curating, cleaning, structuring, and augmenting data at a large scale.
  • Design efficient metrics that provide signals on data quality.
  • Develop proxies to evaluate performance of different data sources / data preparation strategies on downstream model performance.
  • Incorporate knowledge of product use cases and feedback into our data preparation strategy.
  • Collaborate closely with our data infrastructure and crawling teams to enable rapid experimentation.

What We Are Looking For

  • 3+ years of industry work experience with data metrics benchmarking, curating, cleaning, structuring, and augmenting data at a large scale.
  • Highly skilled with Python.
  • Strong ML fundamentals and first principles thinking that guides your approach to research.
  • Ability to write, debug and optimize distributed code, and understanding of data orchestration and automation tools (or strong willingness to learn).
  • Familiarity with a distributed framework like Spark, Ray, etc.
  • Strong problem solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • You enjoy building things from the ground up in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Additional Information

  • We are based in-person in SF and fully onsite 5 days a week.
  • We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
  • The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is up to $225,000 in San Francisco, CA.
  • Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data.
  • In addition to cash pay, full-time regular positions are eligible for equity, 401(k), health benefits, and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.

Benefits
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  • Medical insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • 401(k)

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