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This role will be based in Sunnyvale or San Francisco. At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer for the Anti-Abuse AI organization. The mission of the Anti-Abuse AI team is to build trust in every interaction on LinkedIn. The team uses a wide suite of state-of-the-art Machine Learning techniques to identify patterns in large-scale attacks and take down attackers proactively. This engineer will help lead the effort to build detection and prevention algorithms, models, and systems that can stay ahead of attackers in an adversarial space.
LinkedIn’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.
Responsibilities:
• Work with BIG data, crunching millions of samples for statistical modeling, data mining, recommendation solutions
• Write production quality code and influence the next generation of LinkedIn’s system
• Build scalable AI innovations with foundation and infra partners
Collaborate with other engineers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions for the most complex problems to keep members safe on the platform
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 4+ years experience programming languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, etc.
Experience with machine learning, optimization algorithms, deep-learning techniques
Experience in anti-abuse.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 6+ years of relevant machine learning experience
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Experience developing large scale systems
• Experience with Spark, Tensorflow and Java.
• Previous leadership or mentorship experience is preferred
• Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate routine tasks
• Analytical approach coupled with solid communication skills and a sense of ownership
Experience in account security (account take overs) and/or fake accounts.
Suggested Skills:
Experience leading engineers to tackle a large-scale AI problem
Strong technical background & Strategic thinking
Anti Abuse AI Experience
You will Benefit from our Culture:
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.
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $156,000-$255,000. 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 https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
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