Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Primer
$180-260k
Automating data analysis
Open for applications
Automating data analysis
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-260k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the world a safer place.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or PhD degree in computer science, related field or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years as a backend software engineer, integrating and deploying ML driven functionality.
- Mastery of data structures and algorithms and an ability to use them practically when implementing solutions
- Experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g. Numpy, PyTorch, TensorFlow); bonus for experience with LLMs and natural language processing
- Experience authoring APIs in Python or Golang
- Curiosity, enthusiasm, and a love for teaching and learning
What the job involves
- As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer you will take the lead on building and improving our data-driven products, and seeing them through from research to production
- You’ll be constantly learning and mentoring, expanding Primer's skills across the stack and bringing in new technologies and methods to the team
- You will partner with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, and other technical leaders to solve the ultimate challenge: Empowering humans with artificial intelligence tools
- Understand the landscape of NLP problems and help us make the strategic investments that ensure Primer’s capability and leadership in the space
- Design & develop distributed architectures, libraries and systems with company-wide impact
- Work on massive datasets, integrating with features such as event and topic detection, relation extraction, summarization, entity recognition, document classification, multilingual NLP and knowledge base generation
- Collaborate and influence cross-functional teams to drive our technology vision and roadmap
- Triage issues and debug/resolve by identifying sources of issues and impact on operations and quality
- Improve and promote engineering best practices and design patterns across the company and motivate other engineers to follow your high standard
Our take
Primer is a leading technology company specializing in advanced machine learning. Since its founding, Primer has developed a suite of products built on a core set of computational engines: Structure, Ensemble, Event, Context, Difference, and Story. These engines form the foundation of Primer's analytic pipeline, enabling powerful document analysis and insight generation across multiple languages.
The modular architecture of Primer's platform allows for continuous development and improvement, providing customers with access to a diverse range of document types. By automating the extraction of information, large-scale, insight identification, and the generation of readable text and graphics, Primer makes complex data accessible and actionable.
This technology has been deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and financial institutes. Its solutions have been used to address critical challenges, such as helping the Pentagon assess disinformation campaigns and identify Russian interference in Azerbaijan.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$69m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $237.1m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Our comprehensive benefits prioritize the well-being of you and your family, offering premium medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Additionally, our wellness initiatives encompass mental health support and fitness incentives
- Programs for parents: Birthing parents receive up to 18 weeks of fully paid leave, while non-birthing parents enjoy 8 weeks. We also provide coverage for in vitro fertilization and egg-freezing
- Home-office stipend: All new hires are offered stipends for home office setup and mobile phone and home internet expenses
- Flexible time off: We value rest and rejuvenation outside of work and offer generous and flexible time off in addition to 12 paid holidays
- Retirement/401K: Start now to save for your future. We offer financial benefits and services to give you financial peace of mind
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sean Moriarty
(CEO)Lead Independent Director at Eventbrite and Member of the Board of Directors at CoachArt. Former CEO and Board Director at Leaf Group.
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