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Description

United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Job overview and responsibilities

 
United Airlines is seeking talented people to join the Data and Machine Learning Engineering team. The organization is responsible for leading data driven insights & innovation to support the Machine Learning needs for commercial and operational projects with a digital focus. This role will frequently collaborate with data scientists and data engineers. This role will design and implement key components of the Machine Learning Platform, business use cases, and establish processes and best practices.

Build high-performance, cloud-native machine learning infrastructure and services to enable rapid innovation across United. Set up containers and Serverless platform with cloud infrastructure.You will design and develop tools and apps to enable ML automation using AWS ecosystemBuild data pipelines to enable ML models for batch and real-time data. Hands on development expertise of Spark and Flink for both real time and batch applicationsSupport large scale model training and serving pipelines in distributed and scalable environmentStay aligned with the latest developments in cloud-native and ML ops/engineering and to experiment with and learn new technologies – NumPy, data science packages like sci-kit, microservices architectureOptimize, fine-tune generative AI/LLM models to improve performance and accuracy and deploy themEvaluate the performance of LLM models, Implement LLMOps processes to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of large language models

 

This position is offered on local terms and conditions.  Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.

QualificationsWhat’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's degreeComputer Science, Data Science, Generative AI, Engineering or related discipline or Mathematics experience required2+ years of software engineering experience with languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, or C/C++ 2+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing2+ years of experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred) - Kubernetes, Dockers, ECS and EKS2+ years of experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Flink and SQL programming2+ years of experience with cloud-native DevOps, CI/CD1+ years of experience with Generative AI/LLMsStrong software engineering experience with Python and at least one additional language such as Go, Java, or C/C++Familiarity with data science methodologies and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow) and experience building and deploying at least one production ML pipelineExperience in ML model life cycle development experience and prefer experience to common algorithms like XGBoost, Cat Boost, Deep Learning, etcExperience setting up and optimizing data stores (RDBMS/NoSQL) for production use in the ML app context Cloud-native DevOps, CI/CD experience using tools such as Jenkins or AWS Code Pipeline; preferably experience with GitOps using tools such as Argo CD, Flux, or Jenkins XExperience with generative models such as GANs, VAEs, and autoregressive modelsPrompt engineeringAbility to design and craft prompts that evoke desired responses from LLMsLLM evaluationAbility to evaluate the performance of LLMs on a variety of tasks, including accuracy, fluency, creativity, and diversityLLM debuggingAbility to identify and fix errors in LLMs, such as bias, factual errors, and logical inconsistenciesLLM deploymentAbility to deploy LLMs in production environments and ensure that they are reliable and secureExperience with LLMOps (Large Language Model Operations) to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of large language modelsMust be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorshipMust be fluent in English and Hindi (written and spoken)Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualificationReliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

Master's degreeComputer Science or related STEM field