What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Machine Learning Engineer position at Laurel?
Job Description
Job Description
Laurel's Mission to Return Time :
We're a team that is connected by time. Life has taught us its true value and finite nature. We value every minute and are on a mission to return time . And we live and breathe that mission in everything we do — from how we build our product that saves our customers time to how we operate as a company.
Come work with a team that's intelligent yet humble, visionary yet gets things done. A team that's only getting started at cracking a problem that affects every person who uses a screen to work.
Come build a company that will stand the test of time as we look to understand time itself.
We all waste a staggering amount of time at work (~33%) because we have no idea where we are spending it. Worse yet, we continue to operate in a factory model that simply does not apply to creative work. Our big bet is that by understanding time, we'll be able to move away from it as a unit of value. In the future knowledge economy (lawyers, accountants, engineers), contributions will be assessed on value added, not the underlying time spent adding it.
Ambitious mission to say the least, so where are we starting? We have created a new market category called Time Automation that automates the timekeeping process for professionals and allows us to collect time data at scale. Before Laurel , professionals had to manually record every six minutes of their day into antiquated timekeeping software. Not anymore. We are moving away from a world in which humans tell a machine what they did at work, to our version of the world in which the machine tells the human.
We are looking for individuals who share our passion of returning time. Come join us on our journey as we spend time solving time. It will be a long road but if we're even half right, we'll change the way work is measured and performed forever.
About the Role
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead efforts to build models and services that support our core timekeeping product. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and deploy cutting-edge machine learning to support core product features. Beyond developing models, you'll build and shape our engineering services that support training and deploying models.
Responsibilities
Machine Learning and Language Models :
- Leverage and customize pre-trained language models (e.g., GPT, BERT, LLama) to solve specific text-processing problems for downstream applications.
- Develop and implement advanced text embedding techniques for tasks such as similarity search, clustering, and semantic understanding.
- Integrate embeddings into scalable systems for personalization
- Lead the development of core NLP components like tokenization and named entity recognition.
- Research and implement cutting-edge methods for text representation, generation, and augmentation.
Engineering :
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication :
Other engineering duties :
What We're Looking For
The following are our non-negotiables for candidates.
Nice to haves
The following are things that we are looking for in a standout candidate and would help make this role a perfect fit.
Flexibility and Logistics :
LI-Remote
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At Laurel , we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge the status quo. If you're interested in joining us on our mission to return time, then we encourage you to apply, even if you don't perfectly match every single bullet on the job description. We promise to review your application . Laurel is an equal opportunity employer, and we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment, free from discrimination or harassment, for all employees.
Salary : $160,000 - $210,000
