Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Operations      ·      Brisbane/ Remote     ·    Full time

This role is available for applicants based in Brisbane as well as for remote candidates within Australia.

Max Kelsen is an industry-leading artificial intelligence and software engineering agency. We have been named AWS Data, Analytics and Machine Learning Partner of the Year, ranked 29th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for 2020, as well as 64th overall and 13th within Australia in the Financial Times Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies list for 2021.

Why Max Kelsen?

We are a rapidly growing company that believes in providing opportunities for career progression. Culturally we want our team to be open, honest, and challenge each other to be better. This does not mean we are perfect, but it does mean that we have a burning desire to keep on improving.

When you come on board at Max Kelsen, you will tackle challenging problems and work with interesting clients including Fortune 500 companies, often building solutions that have never been implemented before. Recently, these have included an application that helps to slow degenerative eye disease in children, and another that improves the effectiveness of skin cancer therapies.

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the team at Max Kelsen. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead and execute projects with clients from a wide range of industries, using your skills to architect, build, tune and deploy machine learning solutions to solve real-world consulting and research problems. You will be a part of a team of talented engineers and apply your skills to a variety of challenging problems, with a focus on sending cutting-edge models through to production and assisting in developing the internal engineering team.

You will be joining a growing team of Machine Learning Engineers who work across professional services (consulting) and product development. In order to solve problems across a variety of projects, we maintain a strong emphasis on knowledge transfer and skill exchanges within the ML team which we achieve both formally (Code Reviews, coaching & mentoring) and informally (Fortnightly ML catch up sessions).

Max Kelsen is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are aware that some individuals tend to only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the criteria. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We’d love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit!

Expected Skills and Experience:

• At least three years professional data science and machine learning experience, with experience leading projects and evidence of multiple successful projects or research/open-source contributions
• Advanced proficiency in Python and experience writing quality production code (familiarity with other relevant languages is a bonus)
• Deep experience using and developing data analysis libraries (NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Spark etc) to manipulate and analyse data
• Deep experience in a wide variety of modelling techniques (including unsupervised, tabular, vision, NLP, time-series) and libraries (including sklearn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience on R&D focussed projects, such as implementing approaches from papers or conducting robust experimental analyses of a selection of techniques.
• Strong software engineering skills and ability to review and improve an existing codebase using best practices, with experience deploying and maintaining machine learning models in production.
• Experience with cloud computing technologies, familiarity with provisioning and managing cloud resources
• Can create and deliver project presentations and results to client stakeholders in a clear and professional manner
• Have the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to team members and clients

About Max Kelsen:

Some companies are product or service centric, but we are people centric. Without our unique, diverse team we wouldn’t be able to do the work we do. Every day we strive to make Max Kelsen a place where everyone feels seen, heard and valued. Our team is encouraged to ask questions, offer solutions and be included in our journey.

In terms of working remotely or from home, we fully endorse this and support our teams to work from wherever they do their best work. We provide all the necessary equipment to work from home including monitors, keyboard, mice, and noise cancelling headphones. Our focus is delivering great outcomes for our clients, not clocking up excessive hours each week.

Enjoy an additional day of birthday leave, 2 days of charity leave to support a cause you’re passionate about, and utilise 5 days of professional development leave to ensure your career prospects continue to grow.

We value spending time together and creating strong connections, so we bring the team together a few days a month for what we call Deep Bond Days. We hold a monthly Town Hall and team BBQ at the office to ensure everyone is kept up to date on changes across the organisation. We also have an active social club with frequent lunches, talks and free social events. Previous events have included private cinema screenings, trivia nights, various sporting activities, and more.

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