Principal AI/ML Engineer

Location: Portland, ME; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; and San Francisco, CA (hybrid 1-3 days onsite/ week)

Must have:

• Have 15-20 years of software design and development experience at a large scale.
• Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's AI/ML engineering needs, ensure the functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of this platform
• Help design the architecture and lead the implementation of the AI/ML infrastructure, platform and services
• Good experience in building machine learning supervised and unsupervised models.
• Experience in using LLM models
• Java & Python
• LinkedIn Page
• Excellent communication

Qualifications & Experience

• A technically deep and innovative Software Engineer leader able to act and deliver to the business needs.
• Have 15-20 years of software design and development experience at a large scale.
• Strong software development skills in his or her chosen programming language, but ready and willing to learn and program in Java and Python.
• Good experience in building machine learning supervised and unsupervised models. Experience in Reinforcement Learning is a plus.
• Experience in using LLM models a plus
• Broad understanding of distributed computing frameworks like Ray and Spark
• Demonstrable experience in Kubernetes and Terraform
• Experience with Sagemaker a plus
• Broad understanding of cloud architecture tools and services, such as S3, EMR, Kubernetes, Lambda functions. Experience in AWS and Azure is highly desirable.
• Deep technically; hands-on in architecture design, development, deployment, and production operation; familiar with agile software development and modern development tools and frameworks; holding strong engineering principles including automation and quality as well as best practices with a high bar. Extensive experience in full software development life cycle E2E including in production monitoring.
• Rich experience and deep expertise in the areas of Big Data and large scale data platforms, especially in AI and ML.
• Highly experienced and deep understanding of CI/CD automation.
• Rich experience in combined engineering practice and agile development. Experienced in leading and guiding teams for effective development using this approach.
• Excellent analytical skills; Capability in identifying and resolving complex problems.
• An understanding of and experience in payment organizations is a plus.
• A mentor to individual contributors of different seniority levels and expertise.
• Ability to encourage and foster a culture of visibility and transparency across teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong philosophy of continuous improvement
• Bachelor s degree in computer science or a related field. A higher degree in a related field is a plus.