AI Engineer

Company Description

Linked In is the worlds largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or New York City. At Linked In, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Linked In's Machine Learning Engineers are both data/research scientists and software engineers, who develop and implement machine learning models and algorithms. Unlike other companies that separate these roles, our engineers work on projects from ideation to implementation.

• Building and deploying relevance models that power our various recommender systems and personalized intent engines
• Keeping scalability and performance in mind through your design and engineering choices.
• You will explore novel approaches for machine learning ranking and modeling downstream impact, as well as new ways of creating new product features by leveraging the cutting edge machine learning techniques in Generative AI, NLP.
• You will work with big data and analyze tracking data to understand member preferences and identify opportunities for taking the products you work on to the next level.
• You will work directly with partner data science, product, and infrastructure teams to take your ideas from conception to production.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
• 1+ years experience with machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval or natural language processing
• 1+ year of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 1+ years experience in programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of relevant work experience
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Experience developing large scale systems
• Knowledge of recommendation systems
• Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate routine tasks
• Analytical approach coupled with solid communication skills and a sense of ownership

• Data Mining
• Data Coding
• Machine Learning

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. Linked In is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $114,000 - $189,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Linked In considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

Linked In is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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