Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Sage Group plc
London
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Job Title Principal Machine Learning Engineer JobDescription Sage AI is a nimble team within Sage, buildinginnovative services and solutions using generative AI and machinelearning to turbocharge our users productivity. The Sage AI teambuilds capabilities to help businesses make better decisionsthrough data-powered automation and insights. We are currentlyhiring a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to help us buildmachine learning solutions that will provide insights to empowerbusinesses and help them succeed. As a part of our cross-functionalteam including data scientists and engineers you will help steerthe direction of the entire companys Artificial Intelligence andMachine Learning initiatives. This is a hybrid role - three daysper week in our London office. If you share our excitement forapplying artificial intelligence and machine learning, value aculture of continuous improvement and learning and are excitedabout working with cutting edge technologies, apply today! Youwill: 1. Design and implement product features and services thatuse AI and ML to augment and simplify our customers workflows 2.Develop our internal ML platform to support our machine learningsystems and our own efficiency 3. Monitor and optimize the qualityand performance of our models, services, and tools 4. Collaboratewith our AI Platform team to extend the capabilities of our machinelearning platform 5. Design and write robust production-qualitycode to support our machine learning systems 6. Build and operatepipelines for accessing and enriching data for machine learning 7.Train, tune, and ship models 8. Mentor other ML engineers, softwareengineers, and data scientists in best practices 9. Work withproduct managers and data scientists to translate product/businessproblems into tractable machine learning solutions KeyResponsibilities You have: 1. Keen interest in artificialintelligence and machine learning and extensive practicalexperience with it 2. Expert knowledge and experience with relevantprogramming languages (incl. Python), frameworks (incl. Pycharm,OpenAI, HuggingFace, Spark, Azure, AWS) 3. Extensive experiencewith cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) 4. Ability to writehighly performant code working with big data 5. Bachelors degree,preferably in a field that strongly uses data science / machinelearning techniques (e.g. computer science/engineering, statistics,applied math) 6. Fluency in data fundamentals: SQL, datamanipulation using a procedural language, statistics,experimentation, and predictive modelling 7. Strong quantitativeand analytical skills with significant experience with data sciencetools 8. Ability to communicate complex ideas in machine learningto non-technical stakeholders You may have: 1. Experience with oneor more ML Ops frameworks - MLFlow, Kubeflow, Azure ML, Sagemaker2. Strong theoretical foundations in linear algebra, probabilitytheory, or optimization 3. Experience and training in finance andoperations domains 4. Deep experience with ML approaches: deeplearning, generative AI, large language models, logisticregression, gradient descent 5. Experience wrangling complex anddiverse data to solve real-world problems Whats it like to workhere: You will have an opportunity to work in an environment whereML engineering is central to what we do. The products we build arebreaking new ground, and we have a focus on providing the bestenvironment to allow you to do what you do best - solve problems,collaborate with your team and push first class software. Ourdistributed team is spread across multiple continents, we promotean open diverse environment, encourage contributions to open-sourcesoftware and invest heavily in our staff. Our team is talented,capable, and inclusive. We know that great things can only be donewith great teams and look forward to continuing this direction.Function Product Country United Kingdom Office Location London WorkPlace type Hybrid Advert Working at Sage means youre supportingmillions of small and medium sized businesses globally withtechnology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future ofAI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks,like entering invoices and generating reports, and more timepursuing their ambitions. Our colleagues are the best of the best.Its why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor.Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinaryteams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock downbarriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience theirpotential. Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/ Watch a video aboutour culture: youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE We celebrateindividuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace allbackgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you needsupport applying, reach out at . Learn more aboutDEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/J-18808-Ljbffr

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