Engineering – Machine Learning, 23andMe

Engineering - Machine Learning, 23andMe

Company 23andMe
Job title Engineering – Machine Learning
Job location Sunnyvale, California, United States
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Direct multiple teams of senior engineers with responsibility for production-critical services
  • Leverage modern AI/ML technologies like transformer networks to solve sequence-based biological puzzles
  • Build the world’s best-performing predictive models by training them on the world’s largest genotype-phenotype database
  • Collaborate with data scientists and researchers to build internal infrastructure and services, improving their productivity through self-serve tooling and direct support
  • Coordinate with product managers on requirements, scope, and timelines for development
  • Define success metrics, and key results, and inspire your team to go beyond code and solve business-critical problems

Requirements & Skills:

  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in an engineering role, at least 4 of which are in a management role
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
  • A strong philosophy of iterative development, seeking feedback from stakeholders, resisting upfront over-engineering or scope creep, and a willingness to change direction
  • Experience with building and maintaining critical production systems with uptime requirements, on-call rotations, and emergency response
  • Experience collaborating with scientists and researchers and a passion for enabling and accelerating their work
  • Familiarity with state-of-the-art machine learning infrastructure-as-a-service such as AWS Sagemaker and/or pipeline tools such as MLFlow and MetaFlow
  • Proficiency with Python and related scientific libraries (numba, pandas, PyTorch)
  • With exceptional, multidisciplinary communication skills and a strong curiosity to learn about complex biological topics; we are solving some of the hardest problems in science, today

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