Within AI Platform, the Azure ML team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models.

Responsibilities

As a (Senior) Machine Learning Engineer in our team, you will:

• Collaborate with researchers and data scientists to design sophisticated machine learning models

• Implement and fine-tune neural network architectures, including transformer-based models

• Optimize model performance, scalability, and efficiency

• Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance, robustness, and generalization

• Explore novel techniques and approaches to enhance model capabilities

• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in Computer Vision, Multimodal, deep learning, and AI research

• Work with large-scale datasets, preprocess them, and create appropriate data representations

• Select relevant features and ensure data quality for training and evaluation

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including researchers, software engineers, and product managers

• Communicate technical findings and insights effectively

• Deploy trained models in production environments

• Monitor model performance, troubleshoot issues, and iterate on improvements

Qualifications

Required Qualifications -

• Total 8+ years of relevant experience

• Depth in Data Science, Generative AI and Engineering

• Background in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and multimodal learning

• Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) to develop production-grade quality product

• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation

• Proficiency in Agile development practices and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

• Experience with vision models, diffuser models, multimodal models. Some examples are ViT, DeiT, BEiT, DINO, DINOv2, SAM, Stable diffusion, CLIP, BLIP, LLaVA etc.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively

• Good understanding of statistics, linear algebra, and probability theory

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and distributed computing

Preferred Qualifications -

• Preferred training & fine-tuning experience on large data

• Preferred experience with audio, NLP algorithms

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