Company Overview:
SG Analytics (SGA), a Global Insights and Analytics company, focuses on ESG, Data Analytics, and Investment & Market research services. The company has a presence in New York, San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Toronto, London, Zurich, Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad and growing consistently for the last few years.
SGA is a Great Place To Work (GPTW) certified company, and with its thriving work environment shaped by a growth mindset, abundant learning & collaboration opportunities, opportunities, and a meritocracy-driven culture, SG Analytics has also been awarded regional best employer in 2016, 2018 & 2020.
Your Roles and Responsibilities:
- Performance tune and scale out the ML models data scientists have developed. Data scientists are not software engineers, and ML engineers will be expected to refactor their Python or R codes into production-ready code and ensure the models are scalable.
- Product ionize models developed by data scientists. Examples include refactoring Python code written on Jupyter Notebook to PySpark.
- Develop AI and ML pipelines for continuous operation, feedback and monitoring of ML models demonstrating standard processes from the CI/CD vertical within the MLOps domain. This can include supervising for data drift, triggering model retraining and setting up rollbacks.
- Optimize AI development environments (development, testing, production) for usability, reliability and performance.
- Have a strong relationship with the infrastructure and application development team in order to understand the best method of integrating the ML model into enterprise applications
- Work with data engineers to ensure data storage (data warehouses or data lakes) and data pipelines fostering these repositories and the ML feature or data stores are working as intended.
- Evaluate open-source and AI/ML platforms and tools for feasibility of usage and integration from an infrastructure perspective. This also involves staying updated about the newest developments, patches and upgrades to the ML platforms in use by the data science teams.
Technical Skills:
- Be well-versed in software engineering (C++, Java, Python), infrastructure provisioning and DevOps principles, whether they are related to infrastructure as code, microservices architecture or CI/CD automation.
- Ability to evaluate the performance and supervising characteristics of the ML model. These include model size (what is the size of the model), inference performance (speed at which results are returned for inference), memory consumption (how much memory will be consumed once in production), model observability and drift.
- Are you familiar with ML algorithms, AI use cases and applications? Should have knowledge of, but not expertise in, open-source high-code frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow, augmented AI and ML platforms, pretrained ML models and integrated AI PaaS tools. Examples include Azure Machine Learning Studio, Googles Vertex AI, IBM Watson Studio, Amazon SageMaker and open-source tools like Kubeflow.
- Have knowledge about data engineering concepts, tools and automation processes (DataOps) since data pipelines and architectures provide the base for building AI solutions. Examples include MPP data warehouses like Snowflake and Amazon Redshift and all-in-one Apache Spark platforms like Databricks.
Non-Technical Skills:
- Strong collaboration skills! They might be part of a team of data scientists, model owners and an ML architect.
- AI strategy development! They should help devise, along with data scientists and ML architects, the long-term AI growth plan, keeping in mind the scalability and availability of resources.
- Possess an open willingness to learn. For example, they can learn Agile development and gain an understanding of using Scrum. This can allow for quick creation and prototyping for AI initiatives.
Location:
- New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania with work from home flexibility (once a week)
- Up to 10% travel within US
- Excellent full time benefits.