[Remote] AI/ML Research Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ode is a technology studio focused on providing data, AI, and design capabilities to organizations tackling environmental issues. The role of AI/ML Research Engineer involves training and adapting models for geospatial applications, collaborating with AI Applications Engineers and Platform Engineers to ensure model readiness for deployment.
Responsibilities
- Assess whether a client problem requires custom model training or can be solved with existing models and adaptation techniques
- Fine-tune or train geospatial and other domain-specific ML models for client use cases
- Prepare and validate training datasets, including messy or undocumented geospatial sources
- Design and implement evaluation criteria and test suites for models you train
- Document models, training procedures, and evaluation results for handoff to the AI Applications and Platform Engineers
- Communicate clearly with non-technical clients and domain experts about model capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs
Skills
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning geospatial or remote sensing models
- Ability to assess a problem and recommend the right level of model intervention or argue for a simpler approach when warranted
- Design evaluations as part of the work, not as an afterthought
- Comfortable working in short, focused engagements with a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to hand off work clearly to engineers who will deploy and maintain it
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