"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."—Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Primer is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer for our deep technology team. You will anchor and help grow a special team within this well-funded, rapidly growing artificial intelligence startup. You will create the technology that transforms all of our products, and makes entirely new ones possible.

Primer's mission is to build machines that read, write, and understand. We power decision-making for some of the largest government, finance, and corporate customers in the world. The technology that makes this possible is constantly evolving. At any given time, we are replicating a deep learning experiment described in a scientific paper published the day before, fine-tuning a neural question-answer system to build a working prototype, and productionizing a rigorously tested model for deployment to customers. You will be the technical lead of this process, building our machine learning factory.

You have an insatiable need to ship code. You understand the challenges, and you relish the hard work and rewards of creating products that solve real-world problems at scale. You are comfortable with the fact that most experiments will fail. You learn voraciously. And you are a team player, sharing the joy of building something far greater than any one engineer can build alone.

Your responsibilities

• Tech-leading the team through all stages of the development process: from rapid prototyping of a machine learning proof of concept through productionizing 
• Building the infrastructure that accelerates feature extraction, transformation, and model serving
• Designing python libraries and APIs
• Working closely with directors, product managers, and engineers to keep machine learning effort aligned across the company
• Actively shaping our practices, tooling, and infrastructure
• Teaching, mentoring, and hiring to grow and nurture your team

What you bring

• 5+ years of demonstrated ability to build, ship, and operate complex ML-powered services at scale
• Mastery of test-driven development and continuous integration
• Agile competency and scrum-master experience
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow
• Familiarity with the latest ML research
• The curiosity, discipline, and intelligence to learn rapidly

What we offer

• Smart, kind, engaged co-workers who are at the top of their game
• An honest and open environment for the free exchange of ideas
• Real products with real impacts on a global scale
• Team outings and bi-weekly company happy hours
• Four catered meals per week
• Lively, puzzle and art-loving office in the SF Financial District
• A rather surprising amount of sports activities
• The opportunity to turn science fiction into reality

Primer is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Please see the United States Department of Labor's EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.