Job Title: Software Engineer - ML

Job Location: Chennai

Job Summary

Cond Nast is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Software engineer-ML who will support productionizing projects in a databricks environment for the data science team. We expect the person to be a software/data engineer experienced in building robust ML systems & deploying ML pipelines in production, Study and transform data science prototypes into an engineering product and is knowledgeable about machine learning models.

**This role is NOT for building Machine Learning models **

Primary Responsibilities

• Operationalize ML models into production environment(s) by building data pipelines Designing and developing Machine Learning Systems
• Keep abreast of developments in the field
• Come up with engineering ideas to resolve problems faced with respect to ML pipeline Design and code highly scalable, machine learning frameworks processing large volumes of data Engineer a near-real-time system that can process massive amounts of data efficiently Collaborate with other Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists in architecting & engineering the solution
• Participate in the entire development lifecycle, from concept to release
• Participate in all phases of quality assurance and defect resolution

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years software development experience with highly scalable systems involving machine learning and big data
• Understanding of data structures, data modeling and software architecture
• Strong software development skills with proficiency in Python/Pyspark
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries would be a good-to-have skill Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Applicants should have a Undergraduate/Postgraduate degree in Computer Science or a related discipline