Senior ML Engineer

Description

Summary: This role involves owning ML-driven product features, partnering across teams to define ML problems, and designing and shipping scalable ML systems. Highlights: 1. Own ML-driven product features from identification to impact 2. Shape ML architecture and MLOps practices, driving innovation in Generative AI 3. Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the company **About Us** Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the \#1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. We are a team of 600\+ fully remote people in 60\+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 200M\+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community! We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission\-driven, flat, life\-celebrating, no\-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team. **About You** You believe in the power of ML and AI to build amazing, interesting, and insightful products and services for humanity… and you’d love to do that in chess! **What you'll do** * **Own ML\-driven product features**, identifying opportunities through to modeling, deployment, experimentation, and impact. * **Partner with Product, Leadership, Growth, and Data Science** to determine which problems should (and shouldn’t) be solved with ML, define success metrics, and iterate based on real\-world performance. * **Design, build, and ship scalable ML systems**, including data pipelines, training workflows, and production model serving infrastructure. * **Prototype rapidly and iterate regularly**, developing repeatable evaluation frameworks, running experiments, and improving models based on results * **Shape our ML architecture and MLOps practices**, establishing standards for experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining as we scale. * **Drive innovation in Generative AI**, exploring how we can best use LLMs and agents to power new user experiences and internal productivity tools. * **Provide technical leadership and mentorship**, mentoring more junior team members, influencing our roadmap, and raising AI/ML literacy across the company. **Preferred Skills** * 5\+ years of demonstrated, hands\-on experience building scaled ML systems, training large ML models, or equivalent experience. * 1\+ year of AI engineering experience. * Strong technical skills and judgment around coding, testing, and building for scale. * Strong practical ML knowledge, solid knowledge of ML theory, and a working understanding of the AI application stack and lifecycle in the context of foundation models, from evaluation to deployment. * High sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast\-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment. **About the Opportunity** * This is a full\-time opportunity * We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!) \- You can learn more about us here: * https://www.chess.com/article/view/how\-chess\-com\-virtual\-team\-works\-together * https://www.chess.com/about