Technical Lead Software Development

Technical Lead - Software Development - FTE - Bay Area, CA

This will be a 2-days-hybrid role in San Francisco, CA.

• As our Tech Lead in AI/ML, you will play a crucial role in the hands-on development of mentoring peers and delivery of AI products powered by our internal AI models and machine learning pipelines.
• You'll identify new opportunities for AI solutions throughout the organization, and set the direction and roadmap required to implement MLOPS.
• You will partner with the team through the creation of AI models, and develop, and deploy LLM-based applications in production, evaluating and improving their performance and accuracy over time.
• Collaborating closely with Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you'll ensure seamless integration of AI technologies into our products, setting new standards for data quality and model performance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain an AI/ML platform that is accurate, secure, and fast.
• Lead workstreams within a lean and agile environment from requirements gathering to creating a plan of actionable tasks for the team.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to data team members on architecture, software development best practices, and new technologies.
• Establish evaluation criteria for data quality tracking and production ML model tracking.
• Partner with product, research, and engineering to ensure product changes are integrated effectively.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years in MLOps, ML engineering, MLOps, and data science with 2+ years leading and mentoring agile teams.
• Proven expertise in deploying essential MLOps components like CI/CD, model registry, and input loading.
• Skilled in creating and launching diverse models (statistical, LLM, GenAI, GPT 3.5/4.0) from POC to production.
• Proven ability to manage projects and programs, leading small teams (2-5 members) and directly handling data analysis, modeling, data pipeline setup, and MLOps.
• Skilled in AIML, using platforms like AWS, Amazon Bedrock, and Snowflake, and proficient in Python, SQL, Tableau, and Alteryx.
• 3+ years of experience working with Jupyter Notebooks, Git, GitHub, JIRA, and weights & biases, enhancing collaboration and version control in project development.
• Significant collaboration with research teams, contributing hands-on research skills that advance project outcomes.
• Previous experience working in Private Markets, Financial Services, or FinTech space.
• 2+ years of Tech Lead and management experience would be preferred, (taking on the role of player-coach and providing mentorship).
• Experience migrating data sets and workflows between legacy data platforms and services. Familiarity with stream processing and event-driven architecture would be preferred.
• Comfortable moving quickly and working in a fast-paced, agile XP, lean environment.
• Experience in leading offshore and nearshore teams is highly valued.

Location:

San Francisco, CA

Work Setting:

Hybrid