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Uber Technologies, Inc. is the world’s largest, San Francisco-based mobile technology platform facilitating on-demand ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats), and freight transportation across approximately 70 countries.
The Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Applied AI joins the Applied AI team to deliver innovative solutions for core business problems. This role involves defining and leading the foundation model strategy for AI-native discovery experiences across Mobility and Delivery, specifically focusing on Search, Recommendations, and Conversational AI. You will own the end-to-end technical strategy, drive architecture decisions for multiple product surfaces, and lead cross-team initiatives spanning Retrieval, Ranking, Personalization, and LLM-powered assistants. Key responsibilities include defining long-term investment areas and mentoring senior engineers. The role requires deep expertise in transformers, retrieval systems, ranking, and embedding architectures. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency with PyTorch and distributed training while managing large-scale deep learning systems to solve complex problems in Personalization, Generative AI, Computer Vision, ML Optimization, and Geospatial AI.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $236000 from 195 postings across 33 companies.
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