Lead Machine Learning Scientist

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mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

The New York Times is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Scientist to join the New A.I. Products & Platforms mission. We are a team building the next generation of reader-facing A.I. experiences for one of the world's most trusted news organizations.

You will provide technical leadership to a team of ML scientists developing embedding models and semantic retrieval algorithms to power new A.I. experiences across our products. Your work will allow teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications that use large language models to promote our journalism and our business. Your team will design and train embedding models for representation learning and fine-tune language models for custom use cases and content enrichment. You will report to our Director, Machine Learning. This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Responsibilities

• You will lead the design and training of embedding models for representation learning, for example using transformer encoders and Two Tower architectures.
• You will lead the fine-tuning and evaluation of language models for custom use cases and content enrichment.
• You will productionalize embedding models and language models while working closely with engineering teams, to integrate ML and AI into user-facing products throughout The Times
• You will help to define shared practices around evaluation, responsible A.I. use, an...