Senior - NLP Machine Learning Engineer

Want to revolutionize Content Creation with AI?

Launched in February 2021, Jasper is an AI content platform that helps creators and companies of all types expand their creative potential.  More than 70,000 customers use Jasper to break through writer’s block, repackage their content, create original art, and adjust writing for language and tone.  We are at the forefront of teaching the world how to leverage artificial intelligence as a creative partner and growing a team that will pioneer the space even further.

About the role

As a Senior ML Engineer at Jasper your scope of responsibility may include hands-on contribution, architecture and designing highly-robust systems. This is a highly-visible role in Jasper with interaction across all levels of the leadership team (Head of Data & AI and Principal & Staff ML leaders).

You will help build the state of the art ML infrastructure that performs automated data retrieval, feature extraction, model training and deployment at scale. You will evaluate the latest ML technologies and come up with proposals to evolve our ML infrastructure. You will work the other ML engineers to produce high quality code through rigorous unit tests, code reviews, and documentation. You will execute on projects that span across multiple areas of the product.

Our teams are passionate about supporting new employees and growing a divers culture of ideas and collaboration. Our work is about using artificial intelligence to unlock creative potential. We see AI as a partner to creatives that can get them through writer’s block, over hurdles and out of the content hamster wheel. Ai should empower content creators to do their best work and get time and mental space back for new ideas. Our target market is composed of creatives (writers, designers, content marketers) and content-forward companies.  

The role is open to candidates located in the US and can be  remote within the United States. We have offices in Austin, TX and Salt Lake City, UT with employees based across the US. We've built a strong foundation to support remote employees engagement with other teams. We have a mix of experience levels and backgrounds, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing, mentoring and career growth. 

What you will do at Jasper

• Design and build the state of the art ML pipeline to retrieve/preprocess data, extract features, train and deploy models at scale.
• Design and develop CI/CD pipeline to train and deploy models to staging and production environments.
• Design and build the monitoring platform for our models to monitor, evaluate, and retrain if a deviation from stated accuracy goal is observed.
• Drive the technical roadmap and evolve our ML infrastructure.
• Own and lead the development of various modules in the ML pipeline.

What you will bring to Jasper:

• 5+ years of experience developing mission critical applications using Java or Python or similar object-oriented languages.
• 2+ years of experience building ML and Data pipeline architectures.
• 2+ years of background in AI, NLP, and Machine Learning.
• Strong knowledge of ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras.  
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience delivering successful software projects from concept to production.
• Strong experience in data structures and algorithms.

Compensation Range

At Jasper, we believe in pay transparency and are committed to providing our employees and candidates with access to information about our compensation practices. The expected base salary range at offer for this role is $171,000- $200,000. Compensation may vary based on relevant experience, skills, competencies and certifications._

The Engineering values that guide us:

• Engineering without ego  - We own our work, but within the framework of the team. We see features through to the end while respecting our team members' ideas
• Strong opinions, loosely held   - We fight for our ideas, but are open to hearing others' suggestions
• Ship fast, sustainably, and simply  - We move quickly without over-complicating but with a minimum of debt
• Scale each other  - We support and teach each other every day in order to be the strongest team possible

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive Health, Dental and Vision Coverage for our Employees and Families (Jasper.ai covers 100% of the premium for employees), 401(k) program with company matching, and flexible time-off to encourage a healthy work-life balance
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Our Corporate Headquarters is in Austin, TX. Employees are welcome to work in the office or remotely throughout the US.
• Generous budget for home office set up 
• Learning and Development opportunity, plus individual budget
• Growing a new business can be chaotic so we strive for a fun, creative, and collaborative work environment to help us meet our objectives
• Paid parental leave
• Travel Perk Program 

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels as we know the more inclusive we are, the better our product will be. We are committed to celebrating and supporting our differences. We believe that diversity is essential to innovation and makes us better able to serve our customers. We’re also passionate about supporting new employees and growing a culture of collaboration. We hire smart, curious people of all levels and backgrounds who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re interested in working for Jasper but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.