Senior Director of AI Engineering

Location United States of America
Contact name: Rebaz Has

Contact email: rebaz@deepabacus.com
Job ref: 66
Published: about 1 month ago

The Company 

 

This company is a global AI writing assistant with top-tier customers including Twitter, Pinterest and Spotify. Backed by strong funding and world-class founders, operators and angels, this group is set to grow exponentially in coming months. They are looking for a Senior Director of AI Engineering to join as a hands-on technical manager to help turn their research plans into reality.  

What You’ll Do

 

  • Report to the CTO and work closely with leadership peers in Engineering and Product to develop and execute long-term research strategy 

  • Design and develop state-of-the-art innovations in NLP technology

  • Lead and manage a team of NLP experts and assist with recruitment, mentoring and alignment with cross-company teams

  • Oversee and contribute to the entire AI/NLP effort and shape the roadmap for the future of this fast-growing group

 

What You’ll Need 

 

  • Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field 

  • Strong machine learning and NLP fundamentals

  • Solid background working hands-on with transformer-based neural network architectures and large language models, e.g. BERT and T5

  • Strong Python skills

  • Hands-on experience using LLMs over an API, e.g. GPT-3

  • Leadership experience in applied research and development 

  • Experience using Docker, Kubernetes and microservice architectures