Batoncorporation

Machine Learning Engineer ($400k - $600k salary)

New York. Posted a month ago

The role

You will build algorithms for personalisation, recommendations, search and real-time decision-making. You will own models, data pipelines and supporting infrastructure from problem definition to deployment.

What you will do

  • Design, develop and deploy recommendation models
  • Build scalable data pipelines and use large datasets
  • Develop and optimise machine learning infrastructure
  • Work closely with product teams to integrate models
  • Design experiments and combine offline evaluation with A/B testing
  • Experiment with deep learning, natural language processing and reinforcement learning
  • Monitor, optimise and iterate on deployed models
  • Develop models for fraud detection, abuse prevention and content moderation
  • Collaborate with engineers and data scientists
  • Identify useful developments in ML research

Required qualifications

  • Experienced Machine Learning Engineer with a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and statistical modelling
  • Experienced in building and deploying recommendation systems in production
  • Familiar with retrieval, ranking and personalisation techniques, including embeddings, candidate generation and challenges such as cold starts and sparse data
  • Proficient in Python and frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
  • Strong software engineering skills and hands-on experience deploying models
  • Skilled in building and maintaining ML infrastructure, including data pipelines, model deployment, monitoring and systems that scale to large datasets
  • Comfortable working across the entire ML lifecycle
  • Experienced working in startups, delivering at a high pace through ambiguity, shifting priorities and limited resources
  • Hands-on and resourceful
  • High-agency and ownership-driven
  • Highly collaborative

Nice to have

  • Experience with production fraud detection, abuse prevention or content moderation systems
  • An interest in blockchain, crypto and SocialFi technologies

Benefits

  • Unmatched ownership and autonomy
  • Exposure to systems operating at the edge of crypto scale
  • The ability to ship fast and see real-world impact immediately

About the company

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and operates the entire technology stack behind pump.fun, the largest memecoin launchpad in production today.