Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yelp is a company focused on connecting people with great local businesses through innovative technology. They are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for the Content Contributor Intelligence team to develop and deploy machine learning models, utilizing advanced techniques like neural networks and large language models to enhance user experience and business interactions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end analyses, wrangling data via SQL or Python, to statistical modeling, to hypothesizing and presenting business ideas
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence
• Work with large and complex textual and visual datasets
• Support the development and deployment of projects involving machine learned models for offline, batch-based data products as well as models deployed to online, real-time services
• Work in the contributor and visual intelligence team on text and visual understanding, along with fine tuning transformer models to derive embeddings for multiple input types
• Productionize and automate model pipelines within Python services
• Drive and advocate adoption of best practices in ML development and operations, and mentor newer engineers in those practices

Skills

• Experience developing and productionizing machine learning models, particularly in neural networks, computer vision and LLMs including their supported data pipelines
• Experience with machine learning using packages such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark MLlib, XGBoost, and Sklearn
• Strong coding skills in Python or equivalent (Java, C++)
• Solid understanding of engineering and infrastructure best practices
• The curiosity to uncover promising solutions to new problems, and the persistence to carry your ideas through to an end goal
• A Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent work experience is required
• We highly value experience of working with LLMs, utilizing LLM APIs (OpenAI, Bedrock, etc), prompt engineering and evaluation

Benefits

• You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across the US.

Company Overview

• Yelp is an online platform that connects people with great local businesses through user-generated reviews and recommendations. It was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.yelp.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Yelp has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2026, 47 in 2025, 42 in 2024, 61 in 2023, 84 in 2022, 61 in 2021, 72 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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