Senior Machine Learning Engineer, A.I. Initiatives

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Requirements:

• 4+ years of software-engineering experience
• 2+ years of developing applications with machine-learning models
• Experience in a newsroom or collaborating with journalists or other creative professionals on software development
• Technical proficiency and recent experience working with large-language and transformer models
• Deep knowledge of machine-learning frameworks
• Experience evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of different A.I. models
• Full-stack engineering skills for developing front-end web applications and agents with server-side components

Responsibilities:

• Build prototypes that use machine-learning techniques for the betterment of The Times news report
• Develop new algorithms, fine-tuning large-language models, and create other infrastructure for the team’s work
• Collaborate with the A.I. team and other desks in the newsroom to assess the value of each prototype and help determine those worth pursuing further
• Stay up-to-date on the latest A.I. research and model development, to help inform the team’s work and spread technical proficiency throughout the organization
• Develop relationships with other technologists in the newsroom and on product teams, to learn from their existing work with A.I.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.