Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join Synthesia's Assisted Creation team and contribute to the development of an AI-based co-pilot for its video generation platform. You will work end-to-end on machine learning projects, taking sole ownership of initiatives and iteratively delivering solutions. Collaborate directly with product managers to shape product direction and evaluate your work's impact on commercial objectives. This role requires extensive experience in software development, particularly with LLMs and building performant applications. The position is remote, based in an EU country or Switzerland, and offers a competitive salary, stock options, and 25 days of paid leave.

Requirements

• Have prior experience training and deploying LLMs, ideally with open-source models
• Have 5+ years of experience working in software development
• Have extensive experience building performant, consumer-facing applications
• Have experience that ranges from early-stage start-ups to well-established organizations
• A good level of spoken and written English is required

Responsibilities

• Work end-to-end, contributing to Assisted Creation’s machine-learning efforts
• Have sole ownership of projects that span months, requiring you to be able to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively
• Work directly with the product manager responsible for your project, meaning that you will be expected to ideate and focus on the commercial problem you're solving. You will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the product
• Evaluate your work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary
• Consider the team's long-term direction and ensure we are developing the engineering capabilities to stay ahead of the challenges we will likely encounter in 6-12 months

Preferred Qualifications

• Be an owner
• Focus on outcomes over inputs and plans
• Make the journey fun
• Default to simple

Benefits

• The salary starts at EUR/GDP/CHF 120.000 base + stock option plan
• 25 days of leave + local holidays