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Netflix Research Engineer L5 - Machine Learning Efficiency 
United States, California 
57756327

23.06.2024
In this role, you will aid applied research and product development by conceptualizing, designing, and implementing engineering improvements related to large-scale deep neural networks. You would have proven expertise in efficiency optimizations using techniques such as quantization, model pruning, distillation, compute-efficient finetuning, etc. You have to be deeply knowledgeable in ML hardware and software to be successful in this role. Additionally, you need solid software development skills, a love of learning, a passion for solving problems, a bias to action, and effective collaboration with scientists.
What we are looking for:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering quality results.
  • Proven expertise in training and serving infrastructure for LLMs and other large foundation models.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with knowledge of statistical methods.
  • Strong software development experience in languages such as Python and Java.
  • Deep understanding of TensorFlow and/or PyTorch.
  • Familiarity with hardware and software accelerators and GPU-based optimizations
  • Great interpersonal skills.
  • Strong communication skills - written and verbal.
  • Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
Preferred, but not required, additional areas of experience:
  • Experience as a technical leader.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience in Search, Recommendations, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Conversational Agents, and Personalization.
  • Experience with Spark or other distributed computed platforms.
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms and large web-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience in applied research in industrial settings.
  • Open source contributions.
  • Research publications at peer-reviewed journals and conferences on relevant topics.
Links to some of our published work:
  • - Under review.
  • - PaRiS Workshop - WebConf 2023.
  • - RecSys 2022
  • - SIGIR 2022
  • - RecSys 2021
  • - SIGIR 2019
Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.