Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer, New Initiatives

Dropbox · Remote

Company

Dropbox

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Role Description

As a Staff Machine Leaning Engineer for this new division, you will be able to drive the future direction of a new initiative and push the boundaries on what the world thinks is possible by leveraging the latest advancements in ML. You will join a team of top-tier Machine Learning Engineers and be an inherent part of the product org to create and build delightful new experiences.

As a ground floor opportunity for this startup team, we need this staff engineer to build a top-tier truth-seeking culture with a lot of focus on impact and execution!

Responsibilities
  • You will serve as the ML thought leader to adopt and get ahead in the fast evolving landscape of ML
  • You will design, build, evaluate, deploy and iterate on machine learning models with thousands to billions of parameters (or more!)
  • You will push the limits of whats considered possible at scale and generate gains by leveraging the latest development in AI
  • You will work across teams and functions to bring your models, and features not considered possible before to life
Requirements
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other quantitative fields or related work experience
  • 10+ years of engineering experience with 6+ years building Machine Learning or AI systems
  • Experience working in a start-up or in a start-up like environment
  • Strong industry experience working with large scale data systems
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Familiarity with the latest development in LLMs
  • Proven software engineering skills across multiple languages including but not limited to Python
  • Experience with Machine Learning software tools and libraries (e.g. TF, PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
  • PhD in Computer Science or related field with research in machine learning
  • Experience building 0→1 ML products at large (dropbox-level) scale or multiple 0→1 products at smaller scale including experience with large-scale product systems
  • Experience with one or more of the following: Recommendation Systems, Search, Large Language Models (LLMs)
Total Rewards
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.

For candidates hired in San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro, the expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role is currently $240,600 - $283,000 - $325,500. 

For candidates hired in the following locations: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro) and Washington DC metro, the expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role is currently $216,500 - $254,700 - $292,900. 

For candidates hired in all other US locations, the expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is currently $192,400 - $226,400 - $260,400. 

Range(s) is subject to change. Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. 

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

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Date Posted

04/22/2023

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