Machine Learning Research Engineer, Miro
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Visual workspace for innovation
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Visual workspace for innovation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower teams to create the next big thing, powered by AI at every step of the way.
Role
Who you are
- Strong foundation in ML theory and statistics, including hypothesis testing, probability distributions, regression, classification, and optimization techniques
- Solid engineering fundamentals. You are comfortable writing production-level Python and have a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system design
- Deep proficiency in Python and the modern ML stack, with hands-on experience using libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Gradient Debugging: Expertise in PyTorch or JAX, including experience with distributed training (e.g., DDP, FSDP) and debugging complex gradient issues
- Applied Research: Ability to read, implement, and improve upon the latest academic papers (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR). You don't just use libraries; you understand the math underneath them and can reproduce results in peer-reviewed papers
- Track record of end-to-end ML delivery, from exploratory data analysis (EDA) and feature engineering to training, validation, and deploying models in a production environment
- Experience with large-scale systems, capable of designing resilient architectures that handle vast datasets and high-throughput inference requests
- Strong engineering mindset, valuing code quality, testing, modularity, and maintainability just as highly as model accuracy
- Option A: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field plus ~3+ years of professional ML engineering experience
- Option B: No formal degree, ~6+ years of industry experience demonstrating equivalent proficiency in building and shipping ML systems
What the job involves
- Miro is looking for a Machine Learning Research Engineer to serve as the technical "North Star" for our Machine Learning organization
- You will operate as an Individual Contributor, driving the architectural decisions behind the "Intelligent Canvas."
- Your challenge is unique in the industry: You are not just processing text. You are building models that understand spatial relationships, visual diagrams, and unstructured collaboration
- You will research, prototype, and ship novel architectures that combine Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to make Miro the smartest collaboration platform on earth
- Design, train, and ship production-grade ML models—including deep learning, NLP, and computer vision systems—that solve complex business problems and power core product features
- Conduct deep exploratory research on massive datasets to uncover novel patterns in user behavior and content creation, translating raw data insights into new predictive modeling opportunities
- Apply advanced fine-tuning strategies (e.g., PEFT, LoRA) to adapt state-of-the-art foundation models to specific domain tasks, rigorously experimenting to maximize performance
- Architect scalable ML pipelines for data processing, feature engineering, training, and evaluation, ensuring high data quality and system reliability
- Optimize model performance for latency, throughput, and resource utilization, balancing model complexity with production constraints (e.g., overfitting vs. underfitting, compute efficiency)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineers, product managers, and software engineers to translate business requirements into technical ML specifications and integrate models into user-facing applications44
- Champion MLOps excellence by automating deployment workflows, implementing CI/CD for ML, and establishing robust monitoring for model drift and health
- Stay at the forefront of ML research, evaluating novel algorithms and techniques (e.g., Transformer architectures, quantization) to drive innovation and technical strategy
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of employees worldwide have moved to remote working, but existing tools are holding back the potential for collaboration. Tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams already provide remote communication platforms to millions of users, but they generally compromise on features required to emulate the team collaboration experience.
Miro has created a platform that provides enterprise tools such as collaborative whiteboards and mind-map software into an accessible and integrated service. As opposed to providing an 'all-in-one' add on, Miro allows businesses to customize and integrate the tools and resources within their individual platform to cater to the team's specific requirements.
Miro’s initial strategy of offering free and discounted subscriptions and then moving to paid models has paid off. The platform currently has over 100M users and is trusted by enterprises such as VMware, Zendesk and Frog. And as part of its ongoing battle with Zoom, Miro acquired video-chat startup Around in 2022, to remain competitive in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$400m
SERIES C
Apr 2020
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $476.8m
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrey Khusid
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to Miro, they founded Vitamin Group specializing in digital technologies and multimedia projects.
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