Job Summary:
X, The Moonshot Factory is an innovative company focused on early-stage geoscience AI projects. The Senior Applied AI Engineer will translate cutting-edge AI research into real-world products, driving high-impact outcomes through experimentation and scalable training infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Act like an owner; be fearless in diving deep, asking questions, proposing solutions, establishing consensus and then making things happen.
• Define ML experiments, perform data reviews, train and test various multimodal ML architectures.
• Extensive use of AI for code tooling.
• Get your hands dirty! Identify, design, and implement a set of experiments and move them to MVPs.
• Have fun, learn from your teammates and teach them as well!
Qualifications:
Required:
• MS/PhD in CS or equivalent practical experience in ML, and 6+ years of professional experience building and releasing production software (in addition to internships)
• 3+ years of hands-on industry experience in AI research, scalable model training, evals, and model deployments.
• Experience with multi-model models is strongly preferred.
• ML Ops experience - setting distributed training and eval pipelines.
• Hands-on experience building scalable data pipelines and managing ML workflows.
• Substantial experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries, such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, or TensorFlow.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience using AI code generation tools.
• Strong Python proficiency.
Preferred:
• Experience in early-stage or startup environments, where engineers take ownership and drive product development from the ground up.
Company:
X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.