Staff Machine Learning Scientist

About Qarik

Co-founded by Google Cloud Engineering leaders Qarik is an IT Solutions company focusing on Google Cloud Platform. We’ve grown to 100 employees in less than three years and continue to attract brand-name (F1000) clients. We are an engineer-driven company where your talent is truly appreciated and maximized. Unlike the traditional model where consultants can remain long beyond project completion we enter our engagements with the end in mind. Core to our ethos is the ability to solve complex problems and teach clients to do the same.

In this role you'll be joining our growing team focused on building Generative AI applications for document summarization classification and question and answer using unstructured and structured data. This team works with companies of all sizes from startups to Fortune 100 that are leaders in their fields pushing the limits of possible.

You will develop applications on Google Cloud work with customers to understand their requirements suggest new ideas and features to the team to further improve the product and implement the new functionalities with a passion for quality. You will implement best practices and state of the art techniques for AI and LLMs and work on research experimentation and implementation of novel methods.

Responsibilities

• Required hands-on experience with design and implementation of applications using Large Language Models (LLM). More specifically:

• Python programming.

• Google PaLM OpenAI GPT LLaMA or similar models.

• LangChain LlamaIndex or similar frameworks.

• Advanced prompt engineering.

• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

• Vector databases (GCP Vector Search ChromaDB Pinecone pgvector or similar).

Ideal candidate will also have experience in one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.

• LLM model fine-tuning.

• Embedding model fine tuning.

• Shell scripting.

• Google Cloud Vertex AI (AutoML AI APIs etc.).

• Classic Machine Learning (ML frameworks neural net models development training tuning serving).

• MLOps (ideally on GCP).

• Data Engineering (including SQL).

Personal Attributes

• Strong ethics.

• Strong technical aptitude.

• Engineering mindset/developer background.

• Strong sense of ownership and teamwork.

• Curious always learning to get better.

• Enjoys working with clients.

• Excellent communication skills.

Desired Locations

• Pittsburgh Detroit New York or Chicago but open to any location (including outside of the US) as long as you are willing to overlap US East Coast morning.

Open to any location in the US as long as you are willing to overlap the US East Coast morning.

Why Qarik?

● Qarik offers a competitive employee compensation and outstanding benefits package.

● The job is fully remote with work hours and vacation flexibility for work/life balance.

● You will work on a team where people respect each other have a shared goal of customer success and work together instead of competing against each other or counting the lines of code or number of PRs to meet personal annual OKRs. Most of your teammates think this is the best team they have ever worked on so far in their careers.

● We are using the latest AI tech and pushing the boundaries possible constantly learning new stuff and creating new cool things together.

Qarik is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression national origin disability or protected veteran status. For further information please contact our [email protected] .