Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Company Description
ServiceNow believes in the power of technology to reduce the complexity in our jobs. At ServiceNow, we make work, work better for people with modern digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity.
Built on the Now Platform, our product portfolio delivers the IT, employee, and customer workflows that matter—with enterprise solutions to help drive every part of a company’s digital transformation. Companies can simplify how work gets done, deliver intuitive experiences, and build digital workflow apps with a single cloud platform.
Job Description
Team
Come join our Platform AI (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) team and create core capabilities that power key next-generation ServiceNow solutions/products such as virtual assistants, chatbots, cognitive search, employee experience platforms, automatic knowledge curation, proactive customer service, and employee experience platforms. We are truly defining the future of work.
Role
As we scale our cutting-edge technology across our customer base, we are looking for a hands-on, highly motivated individual who can help us build models that leverage tacit knowledge from our database to give users reliable factual answers faster. If we succeed, our customers will love our products even more and trust us to solve more and more complex and demanding digital workflows.
What you get to do in this role:
As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer you will play a critical role in the Platform AI Semantic Search team. We’re looking for team-oriented problem solvers with a long-term mindset and with deep expertise in all aspects of enterprise software development. We are looking for team members to help us design and implement AI technologies in order to transform our end user experiences. Successful team members at ServiceNow have a passion to be a part of, lead, and grow amazing teams. You'll also work cross functionally to deliver innovative software designs and solutions to both internal and external developers and customers.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Architect, design, and build innovative search + AI/ML capabilities with high scalability and quality. Problem spaces includes:
- Knowledge Graphs
- Learning-to-Rank models
- Question Answering systems
- Snippet / Answer extraction
- Contextual Relevancy
- Implement cutting edge search capabilities and technologies ranging from keyword search and word/paragraph vectorization to knowledge graphs and ML.
- Design and architect tools, libraries, and frameworks with long term platform implications for high modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability
- Lead and coordinate work cross functionally to improve architecture, developing process and mentoring junior members in the team
- Design and deliver outstanding search experiences for our customers and developers
Qualifications
In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:
- 10+ years of software research and development experience with recent projects including AI and machine learning technologies.
- Passion for problem solving, software architecture, and development
- Expertise at building highly scalable frameworks for processing streaming data and query/result pipelines for end user and machine-driven query processing
- Experience with open source or commercial search technology such as Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, or Attivio
- Experience with open source technologies like Linux, Apache/Tomcat, and MySQL
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with relational databases and SQL
- Experience writing scalable REST APIs
- Expertise with Java 8+
- Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
The following semantic search-related skills are highly desired:
- Experience in applications of Knowledge Graph based reasoning to provide fast, accurate, factual answers to questions relating to specific topics
Deep and broad working knowledge of various search technologies including Lucene, Solr, Elastic, Attivio, text vectorization, and NLP/NLU.
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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