Senior AI Engineer

New York, NY, United States (On-site)

Contract (4 months 28 days)

Published 1 hour ago

stakeholder management

Docker & Kubernetes

DevOps / CI/CD

product development

Python

HTML / CSS

AI Engineering

unit testing

agile methodology

As part of the Video platforms and Development team, Senior Staff AI Engineers are responsible for the design and maintenance of AI Engineering initiatives. This includes internal workflows, new technology initiatives, and consumer-facing systems. The successful candidate will work closely with clients (users) to complete the analysis and design of systems and follow the implementation to completion. Senior Staff AI Engineers expected to lead other AI Engineers and develop standards and best practices across the AI Engineering landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Provides, guides and uses professional concepts in developing resolution to critical issues.
• Train and fine-tune models using LoRA and other parameter-efficient techniques
• Design, train, and evaluate multimodal models from scratch
• reinforcement learning techniques to model development and optimization
• Experience with audio/speech ML tasks such as speaker diarization and speaker identification
• Deploy, debug, and maintain distributed systems in cloud environments
• Optimize inference pipelines using tools and techniques such as TensorRT, quantization, and pruning
• Monitor and maintain models in production, including handling data drift and system failures
• Perform data gathering, cleaning, and curation to build high-quality training and evaluation datasets
• Comfortable working with a gated, continuous deployment workflow that requires unit, component, and integration tests
• Applies extensive knowledge of theories, practices and design matters.
• Works on issues that impact program success or addresses future concepts and products. Implementation of solutions requires a longer-term view which impacts strategic goals and objectives spanning several functions.
• Exercise a wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
• Knowledge of media management strategies and distribution workflows
• Work closely with Product and Operations to design and optimize workflows
• broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or several related disciplines
• Contributes to development of company objectives across and principles to achieve goals
• Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Expert experience, understanding and knowledge of digital and broadcast production operations and workflows
• 5+ years working with the AWS cloud
• 1+ years working with the Azure cloud
• Strong knowledge of industry trends and best practices
• Strong experience with the C4 model and other traditional design artifacts
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Desired characteristics:

• 7+ years of a programming languages such as Java, Golang, Python, JavaScript
• Knowledge with broadcast production or video content management systems
• Familiarity with client-side web technologies (React, Angular, JavaScript, CSS, HTML)
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment practices
• Docker, Kubernetes experience a plus
• BS in CS, EE or equivalent experience required

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a co…