Director, Applied Machine Learning Services

Remote (USA)

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Clarifai Inc.

Clarifai is the leading Full Stack AI, LLM, and computer vision production platform for modeling unstructured image, video, text, and audio data.

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About the Company

Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States and in Tallinn, Estonia.

We have raised $100M in funding to date, with $60M coming from our most recent Series C, and are backed by industry leaders like Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Osage.

Clarifai is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Your Impact

As the Director, Applied Machine Learning services you will lead the Machine Learning team on the front lines of delivering our world class product to our clients! You will work with an experienced team of Applied Machine Learning Engineers to bring solutions to customers in the realm of computer vision, natural language processing, and other AI endeavors. 

The Opportunity

  • This opportunity will involve managing a group of applied machine learning engineers and working to bring custom solutions using Clarifai platform and non platform tools to these customers  
  • Oversee and mentor applied machine learning engineers, provide leadership in determining  how to implement computer vision and natural language processing solutions
  • Contributie back to the Clarifai platform with new technologies to leverage work done for custom projects
  • Meet with external data science teams to suggest improvements on better ways to leverage the platform to achieve their goals.  
    • This will include detailed discussions on data related issues, training parameters, ways to approach model development, ontology and taxonomy decisions and how they impact model performance, evaluation and model metrics, etc.
  • Provide feedback and reviewing contracts and statements of work for realistic goals and targets
  • Be 'in the room' when decisions are made for large contracts and what obligations they entail.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of oversight, mentorship, and management of a team (3+ individuals).  
  • 5+ years work in CV, NLP, or other ML technology while solving real customer problems
  • Proficiency with implementing custom solutions in Python.  
  • 3+ years demonstrated professional programming experience in Python
  • Strong desire to work directly with customers implementing custom solutions, managing expectations, and providing guidance.

Great to Have

  • Project management experience (formal or informal)
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as Torch and Tensorflow
  • Some level of C++ and GoLang experience

Tags: Classification Computer Vision Deep Learning Golang Machine Learning NLP Python TensorFlow

Perks/benefits: Career development

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: United States
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