Senior ML Platform Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

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Bloomberg’s Engineering AI department has 400+ AI practitioners building highly sought after products and features that often require novel innovations. We are investing in AI to build better search, discovery, and workflow solutions using technologies such as transformers, gradient boosted decision trees, large language models, and dense vector databases. We are expanding our group and seeking highly skilled individuals who will be responsible for contributing to the team (or teams) of Machine Learning (ML) and Software Engineers that are bringing innovative solutions to AI-driven customer-facing products. At Bloomberg, we believe in fostering a transparent and efficient financial marketplace. Our business is built on technology that makes news, research, financial data, and analytics on over 35 million financial instruments searchable, discoverable, and actionable across the global capital markets.
Bloomberg has been building Artificial Intelligence applications that offer solutions to these problems with high accuracy and low latency since 2009. We build AI systems to help process and organize the ever-increasing volume of structured and unstructured information needed to make informed decisions.
Our use of AI uncovers signals, helps us produce analytics about financial instruments in all asset classes, and delivers clarity when our clients need it most.
We are looking for Senior ML Platform Engineers with strong expertise and passion for building platforms for (Gen) AI applications.
As a Senior ML Platform Engineer, you will have the opportunity to create a more cohesive, integrated, and managed AI development life cycle to enable the building and maintenance of our AI systems. Our teams make extensive use of open source technologies such as, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, KServe, Argo, Buildpacks, and other cloud-native MLOps technologies. From technical governance to upstream collaboration, we are committed to enhancing the impact and sustainability of open source.
Join the AI Group as a Senior ML Platform Engineer and you will have the opportunity to:

Architect, build, and diagnose multi-tenant AI platform systems
Work closely with AI application teams to design seamless workflows for continuous model training, inference, and monitoring
Work with AI experts to understand workflows, pinpoint, and resolve inefficiencies, and to inform the next set of features for the platforms
Collaborate with open-source communities and AI application teams to build a cohesive MLOps experience
Design CI/CD automation frameworks that incorporate regulatory requirements
Develop cloud-native deployment patterns for AI systems across environments
Troubleshoot and debug user issues
Provide operational and user-facing documentation

We are looking for a Senior ML Platform Engineer with:

4+ years of experience working with an object-oriented programming language (Python, Go, etc.)
Experience designing cloud-native, distributed platforms
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Argo, and container orchestration technologies
Previous experience with modern CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows
Familiarity with implementing automation for model development lifecycles
A proactive mentality and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and management
A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar field of study or equivalent work experience
An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms

We give back to the technology community and you can read more about our outreach at: http://www.techatbloomberg.com/ai

Salary Range = 160000 - 240000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
Salary Range = 160,000 - 240,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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How we rate this

Senior ML Platform Engineer - Artificial Intelligence at Bloomberg rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

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How do you monitor a model once it's live, and how do you know it needs retraining?
How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?

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