Lead Engineer, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

$190,000 - $219,000/Yr

Hearst Seattle Media - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

About the position

The Lead Engineer for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will spearhead an AI platform team that supports over 140 Hearst magazines. This role focuses on leveraging cutting-edge technologies in generative AI, deep learning, and machine learning to drive impactful business use-cases and enhance visibility across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Aware of generative AI industry trends, sufficient knowledge to identify opportunities for Hearst and lead projects based on generative AI
• Serve as a hands-on technical expert in generative AI, machine learning, and software engineering
• Oversee a team of engineers by providing daily feedback on projects and longer-term career development
• Guide projects from proof of concept to production, monitoring and retraining
• Perform analysis of projects to ensure they are conducted with rigor and adhere to modern engineering principles
• Partner with product to jointly identify, prioritize and establish acceptance requirements
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify/create metrics that are impactful to the business
• Become an expert on our available data and business to identify high-value projects that will lead to significant revenue opportunities
• Own and drive the foundational work of ML/AI at Hearst Magazines

Requirements

• A Master's (preferred) degree in computer science, data science or related technical field
• Minimum of eight years of professional machine learning and software development experience
• Minimum five years of experience leading ML/AI teams
• Experience in developing and implementing recommendation engines, leveraging data-driven algorithms to enhance user experience and engagement
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques for classification, clustering, regression, descriptive and inferential statistics
• Solid experience with techniques, frameworks and tools to productionize large language models systems and able to identify relevant techniques to establish a position and lead projects to improve the performance, robustness and scalability of existing systems
• Data analysis and algorithm development
• Experience with Python programming language and SQL database queries

Benefits

• Base salary between $190k - 219K annually, dependent on skills and experience
• Hybrid work model (3 days/week in NYC)