Senior Machine Learning Engineer

<h3><strong>Your turn to start the conversation.<br/></strong>Write the future at Rasa.</h3><p>Conversation. It’s the thread between our product and our people. The tool that enables us to forge relationships through compassion and expertise. To find the connection between our differences. It keeps us close together across borders and backgrounds and helps us create our shared vision.</p><p>Rasa means tight-knit. We get to the point and have the courage to ask ‘why?’. Because through relentless experimentation, passion, and vision, we’re transforming the way people interact with organizations through AI. </p><p>That’s Rasa. That’s our message. </p><p><strong>Join us and add yours. </strong></p><p></p><h3><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h3><p>We’re looking for a <strong>Senior Machine Learning Engineer</strong> to join our Engineering team. You will build and evolve Rasa’s core Conversational AI engine, leveraging LLMs. You’ll have opportunities to lead architecture decisions as well as algorithm<a href="http://implementations.you" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> <u>i</u></a>mplementations. You’ll be collaborating with engineers in your team and across the organization.</p><p>Together with the team, you’ll build<a href="https://rasa.com/product/rasa-pro/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><u> Rasa Pro</u></a>, our Conversation AI infrastructure product, which enables Enterprise developers to build, deploy, and maintain complex AI assistants in a production environment.</p><p>Full-time - 100% remote - Location: The UK, Germany, or Serbia </p><ul><li><p><em><strong>This is a remote position, but we cannot hire anybody outside of the UK, Germany, or Serbia for this position. </strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Rasa can assist with work authorization (visa sponsorship) for candidates located in Germany only. </strong></em></p></li></ul><p></p><h3><strong>ABOUT THIS ROLE</strong></h3><p>Software Development at Rasa is not only about writing code. Your team will need your support to come up with good architectural designs, and quality code, and break an ambitious vision down into milestones and issues. We’re not here to chase state-of-the-art on established benchmarks. To ship machine learning products that make a difference for our enterprise customers and our community, you’ll need to:</p><ul><li><p>Develop new machine learning tools that help developers build great conversational software, and enable them to build things that they can’t currently.</p></li><li><p>Take responsibility for feature work beyond just implementation, considering the whole product experience.</p></li><li><p>Contribute to good architectural designs, and quality code, and help break an ambitious long-term vision down into milestones and issues.</p></li><li><p>Share and learn good software practices through code reviewing with your peers.</p></li><li><p>Think lean, prototype ideas quickly ask the right questions, and move forward projects with uncertainties within the context of the team.</p></li><li><p>Mentor junior developers and help them develop great software engineering skills.</p></li><li><p>Navigate our tech stack: Python, LiteLLM, LangChain, vLLM, HuggingFace, Unsloth, Milvus, TensorFlow, Transformers, Dask, Redis, Postgres, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes among other technologies and frameworks.</p></li></ul><p><em>Please keep in mind that we are describing the background we imagine would best fit the role. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements, yet you are confident that you are up for the task, we absolutely want to get to know you!</em></p><p></p><h3><strong>ABOUT YOU</strong></h3><ul><li><p>You take pride in teaching and learning from teammates, and enjoy constructive peer review in a respectful environment</p></li><li><p>You have a learning mindset and work on continuously developing your skills and knowledge. </p></li><li><p>You're comfortable being lean, and you fix problems without waiting for someone to tell you to</p></li><li><p>You can effectively communicate what you’re working on with your teammates and other business functions</p></li><li><p>You're able to deliver work under evolving requirements</p></li><li><p>When someone presents the results of an experiment, you ask questions that cut to the heart of the matter</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Requirements</strong></h3><ul><li><p>Experience in designing and building complex machine learning systems for natural language processing applications</p></li><li><p>Experience teaching &amp; communicating technical material</p></li><li><p>Advanced knowledge in Python or another programming language and experience with LLMs</p></li><li><p>Ability to think ahead and anticipate technological challenges</p></li><li><p>Comfortable with the mathematics behind machine learning</p></li></ul><p><em>Please keep in mind that we are describing the background that would best fit the role. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements, yet you are confident