Overview
Platform - ML R&D - Principal Research/Data Scientist Join to apply for the Platform - ML R&D - Principal Research/Data Scientist role at Elastic. Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What Is The Role
The R&D ML team is responsible for training, testing and optimizing a set of models and pipelines used across the whole stack. As a model architecture lead for retrieval and reranking, you will lead the design and post-training strategies of our next generations of in-house models that will be integrated in our product. While our current generation of models are text only, we plan to add multi modality in the near future. This is an outstanding opportunity to lead our effort and contribute to shipping the upcoming generation of Elastic’s models, which will then be served to our broad userbase. What You Will Be Doing
Strategic research & technical roadmap definition: identify promising new technologies for text-only and multi-modal models, look into post-training methodologies relevant for retrieval and re-ranking, and champion solutions that will fit best in Elastic. Tooling: improve our infrastructure and help scale to accommodate larger models: provide expert guidance on distributing data preparation, training and testing on multiple GPUs, help design, improve and write specs for our compute infrastructure Model variants exploration: investigate applying fine-tuning, quantization, distillation and other techniques to existing or upcoming models. Technical leadership: foster a culture of innovation and rigorous experimentation, coordinate knowledge sharing within the team; act as a senior technical authority and go-to expert for the modeling, training and testing challenges; mentor more junior members of the team helping them develop their skills and knowledge Communication: interact with various leads across the organization, communicate sophisticated concepts to high profile stakeholders, adjust and iterate on the roadmap according to internal and external inputs. What You Bring
Excellent comprehension of the industrial and academic state of the art on xLMs, more specifically in retrieval and reranking techniques Extensive professional experience in designing, training, and debugging various model architectures as well testing and implementing post-training strategies; proven track record of assessing, proposing and integrating frontier techniques to large scale products. 6+ years of professional software development experience in Python (pytorch). Experience with large-scale model training (between 0.1 and 7B parameters), distributed training, and model optimization techniques (e.g., quantization, pruning, efficient attention mechanisms). Excellent communication skills and gentle approach to leadership Strong attention to detail and highly organized Compensation & Benefits
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The typical starting salary range for this role is: $154,000—$243,600 CAD In addition to cash compensation, this role is eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being. Location & Equal Opportunity
Elastic is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. We encourage you to review our Privacy Statement. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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