Compensation: 125.000 - 150.000
Overview
Turnitin is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our products and services. At Turnitin, working remotely is our default. We respect local cultures, embrace diversity, and we respect personal choice. Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, with offices in Dallas, Pittsburgh, Newcastle (UK), Stockholm (Sweden), Cologne (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands). Our remote-first culture allows for every employee to get the same access to learning and career opportunities, and it enables us to think differently about where and how we recruit talent from all kinds of diverse backgrounds. Turnitin, LLC is an equal opportunity employer - vets/disabled.
Job Description
Turnitin is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our products and services. Turnitin is a remote-first company. We respect local cultures, embrace diversity, and we respect personal choice. We are headquartered in Oakland, with offices in Dallas, Pittsburgh, Newcastle (UK), Stockholm (Sweden), Cologne (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands). Our diverse community is unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Our remote-first culture provides equal access to learning and career opportunities and expands how we recruit talent from diverse backgrounds. Machine Learning is integral to our continued success. Our product roadmap is exciting and ambitious. You will join a global team of curious, helpful, and independent scientists and engineers, united by a commitment to deliver cutting-edge, well-engineered Machine Learning systems. You will work closely with product and engineering teams across Turnitin to integrate Machine Learning into a broad suite of learning, teaching and integrity products. We are in a unique position to deliver Machine Learning used by hundreds of thousands of instructors teaching millions of students around the world. Your contributions will have global reach and scale. Billions of papers have been submitted to the Turnitin platform, and hundreds of millions of answers have been graded on the Gradescope and Examsoft platforms. Machine Learning powers our AI Writing detection system, gives automated feedback on student writing, investigates authorship of student writing, revolutionizes the creation and grading of assessments, and plays a critical role in many back-end processes.
Responsibilities and Requirements
We expect Senior Machine Learning Scientists to be versatile and have a well-balanced set of skills. You will focus on model training and maintenance with significant capacity for research (developing novel model architectures), dataset construction, and model hardening (preparing the model and code for production pipelines).
Day-to-day responsibilities
- Work with subject matter experts and product owners to determine what questions should be asked and what questions can be answered.
- Work with subject matter experts to curate, generate, and annotate data, and create optimal datasets following responsible data collection and model maintenance practices.
- Answer questions and make trainable datasets from raw data, using efficient SQL queries and scripting languages, visualizing when necessary.
- Develop and tune Machine Learning models, following best practices to select datasets, architectures, and model parameters.
- Utilize, adopt, and fine-tune Language Models, including third-party LLMs (through prompt engineering and orchestration) and locally hosted LMs.
- Stay current in the field - read research papers, experiment with new architectures and LLMs, and share your findings.
- Optimize models for scaled production usage.
- Communicate insights, as well as the behavior and limitations of models, to peers, subject matter experts, and product owners.
- Write clean, efficient, and modular code, with automated tests and appropriate documentation.
- Stay up to date with technology, make good technological choices, and be able to explain them to the organization.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Experience working with text data to build Deep Learning and ML models, both supervised and unsupervised. Experience with deep learning in other modalities such as vision and speech would be a strong bonus.
- A strong understanding of the math and theory behind machine learning and deep learning.
- Software engineering background with at least 8 years of experience (we use Python, SQL, Unix-based systems, git, and github for collaboration and review).
- Machine / Deep Learning development skills, including experiment tracking (we use AWS SageMaker, Hugging Face, transformers, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Jupyter, Weights & Biases).
- An understanding of Language Models, using and training / fine-tuning and a familiarity with industry-standard LM families.
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, applied math or related field, with relevant industry experience, or outstanding previous achievements in this role. A Computer Science background is required as opposed to statistics or pure mathematics. We’re an applied science group leaning towards deep learning and therefore software development proficiency is a prerequisite.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Would be a plus:
- Familiarity in coding for at-scale production, ranging from best practices to building back-end API services or stand-alone libraries.
- Essential dev-ops skills (we use Docker, AWS EC2/Batch/Lambda).
- Familiarity in building front-ends (LLMs or more standard React, Javascript, Flask) for simple demos, POCs and prototypes.
- Experience with advanced prompting, fine-tuning or training an LLM, open-source or cloud, using industry accepted platforms (such as mosaic.ai or stochastic.ai).
- Showcase previous work (e.g. via a website, presentation, open source code).
Additional Information
The expected annual base salary range for this position is: $112,125/year to $186,875/year . This position is bonus eligible / commission-based.
As a Remote-First company, actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if extended, and is determined by work location and a range of other relevant factors, including but not limited to: experience, skills, degrees, licensures, certifications, and other job-related factors. Internal equity, market and organizational factors are also considered.
Total Rewards
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. Beyond monetary pay, Turnitin offers generous time off and health and wellness programs that provide choice and flexibility and a safety net for life events. Our remote-centric culture prioritizes your well-being.
Our Mission
Our mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values
- Customer Centric - Put educators and learners at the center of everything we do to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes.
- Passion for Learning - We seek teammates who are constantly learning and growing and enable them to do so.
- Integrity - Integrity guides our products, how we treat each other, and how we work with customers and vendors.
- Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
- One Team - We break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
- Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity, thinking globally and acting locally to maximize impact.
Global Benefits
- Remote First Culture
- Health Care Coverage*
- Education Reimbursement*
- Competitive Paid Time Off
- 4 Self-Care Days per year
- National Holidays*
- 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
- Paid Volunteer Time*
- Charitable contribution match*
- Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement*
- Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
- Parental Leave*
- Retirement Plan with match/contribution*
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
We recognize it is unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. If you meet the majority of requirements and are willing to learn and evolve with us, we encourage you to apply.
EEO Statement: Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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