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The Machine Learning Engineer II, Responsible AI joins the Responsible AI team within the Advanced Technologies Group. This role involves identifying and mitigating bias across various machine learning applications, including generative AI, while collaborating with trust and safety, user modeling, and content understanding teams to adopt fairness tooling. You will develop advanced ML approaches rooted in equitability, mentor junior engineers, and help define technical strategies for responsible AI safeguards. Key technical requirements include experience with transformer-based models, 2-tower architectures, and large-scale search and recommender systems. You will work with multi-modal signals like image, text, and graph data to solve problems related to fairness, ethics, and societal considerations in real-time interactive user experiences, ensuring models remain safe and aligned with company policies.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $235750 from 200 postings across 34 companies.
Identify, avoid, and mitigate bias across a wide range of ML applications, including generative AI.
Develop advanced ML approaches rooted in fairness, equitability, and responsible AI safeguards.
Collaborate with engineering teams to adopt and evaluate Responsible AI practices and ML Fairness tooling.
Measure, deploy, and refine fairness interventions and Responsible AI solutions at a large scale.
Mentor junior engineers on the Responsible AI team and across the company.
Define and drive technical strategy for Responsible AI with the team and senior leadership.
What we're looking for
Extensive real-world experience applying advanced ML methods to production systems with a track record in responsible technology.
Deep familiarity with cutting-edge ML architectures like transformer-based models, 2-tower architectures, and LLMs for large-scale Search and Recommender Systems.
Proven ability to measure, deploy, and refine fairness interventions and Responsible AI solutions at scale.
2+ years of work experience in engineering teams building large-scale ML-driven user-facing products.
Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related fields.
Publications at top ML conferences (preferred).
Experience using AI coding assistants like Cursor, Copilot, or Codex for development and testing (preferred).
Expertise in scalable realtime systems that process stream data (preferred).
Remote (San Francisco, CA)+225 days ago
$138,905–$285,982
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Recommendation Systems
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Graph Representation Learning
Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Big Data
Data Processing Pipelines
realtime systems
Cursor
Copilot
Codex
Remote (San Francisco, CA)+225 days ago
$189,721–$332,012
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Recommendation Systems
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Graph Representation Learning
Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Big Data
realtime systems
LLM
Copilot
Codex
Cursor