Senior Machine Learning Scientist (USA Remote)

Turnitin is a recognized innovator in the global education space, partnering with educational institutions to promote honesty and fairness. The Senior Machine Learning Scientist will focus on model training and maintenance, dataset construction, and integrating Machine Learning into various educational products.

Responsibilities:

• Work with subject matter experts and product owners to determine what questions should be asked and what questions can be answered
• Work with subject matter experts to curate, generate, and annotate data, and create optimal datasets following responsible data collection and model maintenance practices
• Answer questions and make trainable datasets from raw data, using efficient SQL queries and scripting languages, visualizing when necessary
• Develop and tune Machine Learning models, following best practices to select datasets, architectures, and model parameters
• Utilize, adopt, and fine-tune Language Models, including third-party LLMs (through prompt engineering and orchestration) and locally hosted LMs
• Stay current in the field - read research papers, experiment with new architectures and LLMs, and share your findings
• Optimize models for scaled production usage
• Communicate insights, as well as the behavior and limitations of models, to peers, subject matter experts, and product owners
• Write clean, efficient, and modular code, with automated tests and appropriate documentation
• Stay up to date with technology, make good technological choices, and be able to explain them to the organization