Staff Software Engineer, ML

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Slack is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to craft and implement ML-powered search features that leverage our data to make Slack a fabulous, robust, safe, and valuable product for our users.

What you will be doing

• Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers and Frontend Engineers to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base.
• Produce high-quality results by leading or contributing heavily to large multi-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.
• Mentor other engineers and deeply review code.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• 8+ years experience with machine learning and software engineering.
• Put machine learning models or other data-derived artifacts into production at scale, especially for search applications.
• Experience with functional or imperative programming languages: PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, Scala or Java.
• Built with common ML frameworks like pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, XGBoost, or Scikit-learn
• Experience building batch data processing pipelines with tools like Apache Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Map Reduce, Airflow, Dagster, or Luigi.
• Worked on generative AI apps with Large Language Models and possibly fine tuned them
• An analytical and data driven mindset, and know how to measure success with complicated ML/AI products.
• Led technical architecture discussions and helped drive technical decisions within the team.
• The ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• Strong communication skills and you are capable of explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other specialists.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or a related field, or you have equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

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For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 184,600 to CAD 310,700.