Senior Python developer with ML experience

Role : Senior Python developer with ML experience.

Location : Mountain View CA - onsite must

Look for keywords like "hugging face " "kaggle "

Minimum Qualifications

BA / BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent technical degree

Familiarity with GitHub and open source software

Must be able to recognize potential issues, and compose technical communications in GitHub

Experience working with Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu environments

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Being a team player with a positive attitude and people skills

Open to learning new internal technical tools

Experience with Python (see below)

Preferred Qualifications

Masters degree / PhD in Computer Science & Data Science / AI ML or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

2 years of work or educational experience in Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence

Experience with one or more additional general purpose programming languages including but not limited to : Java (ideal), Go, or C / C++

Prerequisites

Python Skills

Python installation, environment setup and Jupyter Notebook

Object and Data Structures basics

Comparison Operators and Statements

Methods and Functions

Errors and Exception handling

Built-in functions and Python Generators

Using scientific Python libraries numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn

Use data visualization with Python

ML Knowledge

Familiarity and experience with the following ML concepts, including :

Overview of ML explaining life cycle like Data Acquisition->

Cleaning->

Training a model->

Testing a model->

Evaluating a model

Strong debugging skills on C++ / Python code.

Basic jargons of ML which include Cost functions, Gradient Descent, Back Propagation, Activation functions etc

Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement learning

Classifications and Regression

Using Datasets

Types of algorithms like Decision Tree, K means etc

Importing data in python, clean, preprocess data and manipulate data frames with pandas

Neural networks, CNN, RNN / LSTM

Familiarity with LLMs and generative AI, including prompt engineering, LLM evaluation of model outputs, and concepts such as a judge model and final verdict

Mandatory Skills Years of Experience Rating Out of 10 Python Coding Experience with AI / ML Models Hugging Face Kaggle LLM and GenAI