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.