AI & Machine Learning Engineer

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Teach For America
New York, NY, USA
Full-time

Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, have coding experience and are looking for more progression & autonomy in your career? We are seeking an AI/ML Engineer to collaborate with some of tech’s and analytics’ sharpest minds to solve the firm’s ever-changing but exciting challenges and explore unique technical solutions. Working in tech here at Teach for America means that you’ll always be presented with a variety of new possibilities as you continue to enhance your skills and contribute to our mission.

Areas of Responsibility: 

Hands on research and development

  • Find innovative solutions to difficult and unstructured problems that will support and expand our core business
  • Use analytical rigor to analyze large amounts of data, help extract actionable insights using data analysis, feature engineering, optimization tools and machine learning techniques
  • Develop and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines for AI/ML processes
  • Participate in all aspects of Teach For America’s agile software development cycle
  • Other duties (research, presentations, communicating with other teams)
Educational Background: 
At least a four-year degree in Computer Science, BSEE, MIS or a related field, or equivalent experience
Skills/Experience: 
  • Intermediate or higher experience working with machine learning tools in Python (TensorFlow, Keras, fast.ai, etc)
  • Experience working with data solutions (data ingestion, preprocessing, analysis, predictive analytics)
  • Experience with Reporting and Advanced Analytics Solutions
  • Intermediate or higher experience working with Java (Spring, REST, JMS) and SQL
  • Comfortable working in a Unix environment
  • Experience with version control, containerization technologies
  • Experience working with Continuous Integration / Automation architectures
  • Experience interfacing and working with engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle (leading projects and/or other developers)
  • Experience partnering with other teams to test and roll out cognitive & predictive analytics solutions

Optional but desired:

  • Experience developing applications for and deploying applications in cloud environments
  • Experience with big data and associated technologies (Hadoop, Databricks, Azure Machine Learning etc.)
  • Experience with statistical modeling in R

Skills:

  • Be able to communicate in a clear and effective manner with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Be interested in staying up-to-date with recent advances in machine learning and predictive analytics
  • Be detail oriented, able to work under pressure and effectively manage competing priorities

Work Demands:

  • This position is located on site in our New York National Office
  • Limited travel may be required
How to Apply: 

https://teachforamerica.secure.force.com/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x0V0000...

Job Function: 
Technology / Data Management

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Website: 
teachforamerica.org
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jul 2 2019
Active Until: 
Aug 2 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit