Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Scribd

Scribd offers Scribd Flex, allowing employees in partnership with their manager to choose a daily work-style that suits their needs, balancing flexibility and community connections. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all employees to build collaboration, culture, and connection, regardless of location.

GRIT stands for setting and achieving Goals, achieving Results within job responsibilities, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively influencing the broader Team through collaboration and attitude. Scribd hires for GRIT, emphasizing passion, perseverance, and these standards.

The role involves driving technical direction for platform and product-facing ML initiatives, leading complex cross-team projects from conception to production, mentoring engineers, establishing best practices for scalable ML systems, and influencing the ML Platform roadmap and architecture.

The team builds the Orion ML Platform with core infrastructure like feature store, model registry, model inference systems, and embedding-based retrieval, and delivers ML integrations for product features such as recommendations, personalization, and AskAI LLM experiences.

Strong candidates demonstrate GRIT by setting and achieving goals, delivering results, innovating, and collaborating with teams. Experience leading ML system design, architecture, optimization for high-scale real-time applications, cross-team projects, and mentoring aligns with the role's expectations.