Machine Learning Engineer, Violations

About Scale

At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including : generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles.

With our recent Series F round, we're accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations.

About Data Engine

Our Generative AI Data Engine powers the world's most advanced LLMs and generative models through world-class RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback), human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment.

The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI.

About our Fraud team

The Fraud team works on preventing violations to our terms and service. They protect our platform against potential fraud, cheating, and abuse that are emerging in the GenAI era.

The team works at the intersection of machine learning, analytics, and security. We're looking for Machine Learning Engineers to join this team.

In this role, you'll be given the opportunity to build cutting-edge models to make an impact in the AI industry, and meaningfully drive millions of dollars in revenue.

You'll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies.

Responsibilities :

• Develop state-of-the-art models to detect and combat fraud, cheating, and spamming in the GenAI ecosystem. Your work will play a crucial role in maintaining the trust and reliability of our AI solutions.
• Design and implement features that elevate model performance, ensuring our solutions stay ahead of emerging threats and challenges.
• Define and drive key performance indicators that directly influence business success.
• Assess technical tradeoffs with a critical eye, making decisions that balance innovation, efficiency, and practicality.
• Uphold coding standards and architectural principles by crafting clean, well-documented, and modular code.
• Actively engage in code reviews, offering constructive feedback, and actively contributing to continuous improvement efforts across the engineering department.

Requirements :

• Strong understanding of machine learning approaches and algorithms
• Able to build out ML pipeline from feature generation to model deployment
• Able to prioritize duties and work well on your own
• Ability to work with both internal and external partners
• Skilled at solving open ambiguous problems
• Strong collaboration skills

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training.

Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant.

You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to : Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO.

Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is :

$176,000 $220,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE : Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us :

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time.

Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI.

Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.

S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an affirmative action employer and inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.

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