Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

Overview and Responsibilities:

Paramount is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the team! The ideal candidate will be curious about applying machine learning! This includes deep learning sequence models, LLMs & reinforcement learning, and applying it to existing products and services to improve their efficiency and the overall user experience across our digital properties. In this role, you will apply datasets like traffic/video/consumption, purchase/subscription, and third-party sources to model, analyze, and predict user behavior. You will also take ownership of machine learning products from conception through delivery and monitoring.

Responsibilities:
• Craft and develop highly scalable and reliable machine learning solutions to improve user experience
• Overcome engineering challenges with deploying machine learning solutions at scale
• Investigate new ways machine learning can improve products and determine viability of solutions
• Keep up with machine learning research and commercial product offerings across a wide variety of machine learning fields including NLP, recommendations, image and video
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Effective communication is important as this is a distributed team
• Pioneer new product ideas for how machine learning can improve products and take ownership from inception through implementation
• Deliver recommendations across Paramount and PlutoTV platforms that serve millions of customers daily
• Work on innovative online inference solutions applying machine learning to both video and personalization presentations
• Curate our content platform to craft and develop sophisticated products to collect, transform and enrich data in a fast, scalable and reliable way for ourselves and our customers

Basic Qualifications:
• 2+ years experience bringing machine learning software products to production
• Lead on design and optimization of Online inferencing and developer experience
• MA/MS in Statistics/Data Science/Computer Science or related quantitative subject areas with specialization in data mining or machine learning techniques
• Knowledge of both supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques in major types of approaches that they should be familiar with LTR (Learning to rank), Transformer Architectures, Sequences models for offline and online inference
• Have full stack experience in data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, productionalization, and monitoring of data science products
• Kubernetes - must know basics, APIs - good working knowledge, Message Queues (PubSub) - good working knowledge, and distributed processing like Ray and large DBs like BigQuery
• Proficiency in Python and associated machine learning packages is a must Python, Tensorflow and/or PyTorch, (tensorflow preferred), experience with a Python web framework (Django/Flask) is preferred
• TFServing, TF Servables or TorchServe experience
• SQL skills

Additional Qualifications:
• Go or Java experience
• Communicate concisely and persuasively with engineers and product managers
• Experience with Tensorflow Extended (TFX), KubeFlow and related tools
• Experience using project management tools like those from Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git and Bitbucket)
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, ML Engine, and APIs)
• Background in Deep Learning for personalization is a plus
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud deployments
• Experience with elasticsearch
• Desire to contribute to the open-source community (i.e., blogs, source code, etc)

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Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

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