Machine Learning Engineer (NLP)

About Writesonic

Writesonic's AI-powered writing assistant is used by 200,000 businesses and individuals to automate their writing and save 80% of their time and energy. Writesonic can automatically create articles, blogs posts, ads, landing pages and product descriptions by just inputting absolutely minimal amounts of text.

Our customers love us, as evidenced by the 5000+ 5-star reviews on platforms like G2, TrustPilot, and Capterra.

Writesonic is backed by Y Combinator and a rock-solid group of top investors in silicon valley. We are building a real business fueled by real revenue — not just venture capital.

We're a small, creative, and hard-working team looking for people with a founder mindset to join us. You are serious about building and can wear many hats. Your day-to-day work will directly influence how customers and partners interact with our products.

About the role

We are expanding the functionality of our application based on market requirements and customer feedback. So, we are looking for talented AI/ML engineers who can understand our domain, research the market, own the application and drive the development of new AI models for building customer-requested features from the ground up.

This position says founding engineer. We really mean that. You'd build critical AI (mainly NLP/NLG) features from the ground up, and deliver 5x faster than you have at previous jobs. We're looking for someone who is serious about building, and who can wear many hats. Your day-to-day work will directly influence how customers and partners interact with our products.

🙋 Who you are

• You care more about solving customers' problems and building a delightful experience than about using a particular technology to do it.
• People describe you as "extremely productive."
• You are excited about working on a small team and helping us set the long-term vision for our engineering organization and product direction.
• You have a strong grasp of engineering and ML fundamentals.
• You stay up to date with the latest research in AI.
• You're flexible, trustworthy, energetic, and a great communicator.
• You like to quickly learn and implement new technologies, and perform POC to explore the best solution for the problem statement.

🔨 What you'll do

• Take ownership of Writesonic's AI models and architecture, all the way to deploys, monitoring, debugging, and overall reliability.
• Research the market and competition, and come up with new features or ways to improve the system.
• Ship major features often, iterate on those features, and build out our core AI infrastructure.
• Be exposed to every level of the company, working closely with the CEO to meet business goals and working off customer feedback.

Required Technical Skills and Qualifications

• 3+yrs of industry experience as a machine learning and software engineer. Ideally, with a focus on NLP/NLU/NLG.
• BSc, MSc, Ph.D. degree from a reputed university in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related technical field.
• Experience with building, deploying, and scaling production-level AI applications.
• You can read a research paper or mathematical description of an algorithm/model and translate that paper into high-quality code.
• Experience building backend systems at scale with a focus on data processing/machine learning/analytics.
• Experience building microservices.
• Experience with Python (recommended), Go, and/or Java/Scala.
• Experience with SoTA modeling techniques, such as transformers (e.g., BERT, GPT-N)
• Experience with using code for NLP/NLG/NLU (NLTK, Gensim, spaCy, TensorFlow, Pytorch, etc.)

Our Technology

AI

• GPT-based AI models
• BERT, BART, and other transformers models

Frontend

• NextJs/React with Redux
• TypeScript
• tailwindcss

Backend

• Python (FastAPI)
• PostgreSQL
• Kubernetes for deployment and orchestration