Bloomberg’s Data Science Platform provides a standard set of tooling and infrastructure to facilitate MLOps - from experimentation, data engineering and training to inference across the company. We provide scalable compute, specialized hardware and first-class support for a variety of workloads such as PyTorch, Spark, TensorFlow and Jupyter. We provide advanced features such as hyperparameter-tuning as a service and are beginning to invest in model-management and governance. The platform is built leveraging containerization, container orchestration and cloud architecture and built on top of 100% open-source projects.
 
Having built an excellent foundational infrastructure layer for the Data Science Platform on top of open-source components like Kubernetes, Cloud Native Buildpacks, Kubeflow training operators, KServe, Spark, Argo and more, we are now looking to offer higher level abstractions to facilitate and automate common workflows involved in the Model Development Lifecycle. Highlights from our upcoming roadmap focus on creating integrations built atop our infrastructure layers that allow for Continuous Training and Evaluation (CT/CE) of models, out-of-the-box AutoML solutions, Hypertune as a service, Drift Detection, Model and Feature Stores.
 
That’s where you come in. As a member of the multi-disciplinary Data Science Platform team within the AI Group at Bloomberg, you’ll have the opportunity to make key technical decisions in improving the end-user experience of AI engineers. 
 
While working on the team, the backbone of Bloomberg's up-and-coming AI products, you will have the opportunity to create a platform experience and tools that meet the requirements of our AI Researchers and Engineers, with a focus on creating a more cohesive, integrated and managed MLOps experience.
Our team makes extensive use of open source and is deeply involved in a number of communities like Cloud Native Buildpacks, Kubeflow, Paketo, Kyverno, CycloneDX, Sigstore, Anchore OSS and more. We collaborate widely with the industry and are rooted in Open Source!

More about us:

In the AI group, we build data-driven, highly distributed, high-throughput systems, which are collectively called billions of times a day. Our engineers are responsible for architecting and implementing these services end-to-end overcoming unique challenges that come with machine learning systems in the financial domain which involve building systems that have high throughput, availability, consistency and low latency. The AI Group is the central engineering group with close to 200 researchers and engineers working together to build these data-driven customer-facing products, as well as AI infrastructure and algorithms used by engineers across the company.

We’ll trust you to:

• Interact with data engineers and ML experts across the company to understand their workflows and requirements to inform the next set of features for the platform.
• Collaborate with open-source communities and internal platform teams to build a cohesive MLOps experience 
• Enhance distributed training user experience using main stream and internal training frameworks
• Design seamless workflow that facilitates a continuous model training to model inference cycle
• Troubleshoot and debug user issues
• Provide operational and user facing documentation

What we are looking for:

• Have a strong sense of curiosity to solve new problems and keep learning new technologies.
• Have a passion for machine learning and making it more accessible to engineers
• Proficiency in one or more languages (Go, Python, JavaScript or similar) and willingness to learn more as needed
• Exposure to container technologies like Buildpacks, Docker, Buildkit
• Ideally have experience using open-source ML infrastructure projects such as Kubeflow, MLFlow, Feast, ONNX, DVC

Nice to haves:

• Open source involvement such as a well-curated blog, accepted contribution, or community presence
• Experience with mainstream machine learning frameworks such as Pytorch, Tensorflow
• Passion for education e.g. providing workshops for tenants
• Industry experience with machine learning teams
• Experience working with GPU compute software and hardware
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with configuration management systems (Helm, Ansible, Terraform)

Our Open Source Commitment:

Bloomberg sits at the intersection of high availability, low latency, and large-scale computing. We have a decade-long track record of using open source software to build data infrastructure and applications that address the unique constraints of the finance industry. We also support a broad open source ecosystem to empower others to solve similar real-world problems. From technical governance to upstream collaboration, we are committed to enhancing the impact and sustainability of open source. 
 
In this role, you’ll be expected to interact with global open source project teams and communities. If you have a desire to use, develop, and lead open source software projects, we encourage you to apply to learn more.
 
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
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