Company Description

We are a team of passionate, curious and diverse professionals who care about each other, our work, our company and the world. We are looking for someone who combines skill in machine learning with an ability to connect with people and see the wider context for a range of business problems.- Research, evaluate, and adapt state-of-the-art techniques to solve large-scale AI problems.- Drive innovation in Information Retrieval, Product Matching, Recommendation Systems, NLP, and Generative AI.
- Assess the applicability of emerging research and identify opportunities for adoption across multiple business initiatives.
- Design and conduct advanced experiments and feasibility studies to guide technical strategy.
- Develop scalable, reproducible, and maintainable machine learning solutions and research frameworks.
- Collaborate with Applied AI and Engineering teams to enable adoption of research outcomes.
- Mentor and support other scientists and contribute to the technical growth of the team.
- Lead or contribute to scientific publications, patents,



and conference submissions.
- Communicate technical vision, research findings, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders across technical and business functions.
- Promote engineering excellence, scientific rigor, and best practices across research initiatives.

Qualifications- Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or AI research.
- Demonstrated expertise in training transformer-based models for Information Retrieval, Recommendation Systems, Product Matching, NLP, or related domains.
- Experience training custom SLMs and /or small reasoning models.
- Advanced experience with Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and Git.
- Strong experience with Transformer architectures, embeddings, and representation learning.
- Experience w

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