Machine Learning Engineer

Title :  Machine Learning Engineer

Job Type :  Contract

Contract Length :  6 months

Target Start Date :  ASAP

Work Location / Structure :  Remote

About the Opportunity :

Our client, a leader in Social Media and Content Platforms, is looking for a skilled  Machine Learning Engineer  to join their team for a six-month engagement. This project involves building ML capabilities for a user-facing product, including accelerating the ML development process from internal tooling and modeling to validation, deployment, and optimization in production, with a focus on automating moderation actions and Subreddit rule enforcement. This is a high-impact role that requires a self-motivated professional who can hit the ground running and deliver results quickly.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables :

This role is focused on the successful completion of specific tasks and deliverables. Your responsibilities will include :

• Design and Deployment :  Design, build, and deploy LLM and non-LLM based models to solve critical user-facing classifier problems.
• Model Iteration :  Help the internal team with rapid iteration of models that span a wide variety of content types (text / link / images / video).
• Tooling :  Build model testing / validation and other internal tools that help the team execute faster and accelerate the ML development process.
• Production Impact :  Your work will directly impact the automation of moderation actions and enforcement of community rules.
• Collaboration :  Work with the existing engineering team to contribute to the direction of the project and the team.

Required Skills & Experience :

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of successful contract engagements. The ideal candidate will have :

Bonus Points :