Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build AI products that drive business growth. The role involves collaborating with teams across the organization to develop scalable AI solutions and educate stakeholders on AI applications.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage AI to automate workflows and deliver new AI-powered product experiences
• Develop scalable AI systems and platforms
• Collaborate across diverse teams to develop AI solutions by understanding and generalizing the problems of cross-functional stakeholders
• Lead AI innovation by building and open sourcing advanced frameworks and tools to enhance workflows and set industry standards
• Drive alignment with Block's AI strategy by acting as a company AI expert and educating other teams about how to apply cutting-edge AI to their domains
• Support the adoption of AI best practices across the company by providing guidance and sharing expertise

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in training and deploying ML models, developing ML software, and shipping customer-facing ML products
• Deep understanding of modern ML techniques (e.g. Large Language Models) and the ML lifecycle from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models
• Ruthless pragmatism when solving new and unconventional problems
• A desire to understand our clients' needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems. As a platform team, our main customers are internal developers and products
• Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring as well as the ability to quickly adapt to a new domain, hack MVP's, and iterate to improve product
• Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders