Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Moveworks

$129-257k

+ Equity

Python
SpaCy
PyTorch
Golang
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Moveworks

Enterprise-built conversational AI platform

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Moveworks

Enterprise-built conversational AI platform

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseCommunicationAutomation

Be an early applicant

$129-257k

+ Equity

Python
SpaCy
PyTorch
Golang
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseCommunicationAutomation

Company mission

To make getting instant help at work effortless for employees.

Role

Who you are

  • Drive to ship product improvements with production-quality, fully unit-tested code and rigorously-evaluated updates to models, prompts, or other tunable system components
  • Ability to solve problems end-to-end with machine learning
  • Solid grasp of model evaluation fundamentals, especially for text generation, text classification, and non-uniform sampling regimes
  • Attention to detail and high standard of data quality for training and especially evaluation datasets
  • Readiness to hit the ground running in a Mac development environment, programming in Python and/or Golang
  • Knowledge of deep learning architectures and algorithms and leading large language models
  • Desire to work at a startup pace in a medium-sized company with a high degree of ownership
  • Drive to ship product improvements with production-grade code
  • Strong appetite for continuous incremental wins and completing challenging projects fast
  • High level of curiosity about engineering outside of immediate discipline and ongoing desire to learn and stay at the cutting edge of NLU & AI

Desirable

  • Experience productionizing ML models at scale
  • Experience in AI fairness, privacy, permission controls, safety, and/or security
  • Working familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and LightGBM
  • Experience with NLP libraries such as HuggingFace Transformers, PEFT, and SpaCy 3
  • Experience iterating on prompts for large language models in a data-driven way

What the job involves

  • We are looking for an experienced software engineer with machine learning expertise to join us in expanding Moveworks NLU (natural language understanding) and agentic AI capabilities, enabling increasingly magical user experiences and improving Moveworks generative and conversational AI capabilities platform-wide
  • As a member of the NLU team, you will have all the tools of modern NLP and NLG at your disposal, from best-in-class LLMs, multimodal foundation models, and hybrid vector databases to all the infrastructure needed to fine-tune, evaluate, and serve your own models in production
  • We are a data-centric team, and you will have the assistance of a world-class annotation team to build error-free, inclusive, and privacy-preserving datasets for model training and evaluation
  • You will also go beyond model training to achieve state-of-the-art AI performance in production, in every meaning of the word “performance”: not just accuracy and quality of outputs, but also latency, reliability, and capability of the end-to-end user-facing system as a whole
  • Successful machine learning engineers on the team are just as motivated to design and evolve great compound AI systems and their components as they are to train great models
  • Our team indexes on increasing our ability to move fast, solving challenging product and engineering challenges, and pushing the envelope of value provided to customers
  • Your work will impact our team’s core objectives to understand every enterprise issue and build the most reliable copilot the world has ever seen, in deep collaboration with other functions within Moveworks
  • Apply software engineering, machine learning, and compound AI system engineering to create lasting value for all our customers
  • Take on exciting and difficult challenges in conversational agent domains, such as agent cognitive architecture iteration, multimodal agents, multilingual agents, conversational memory management, reasoning strategies (eg Tree of Thoughts / Graph of Thoughts), fine-tuning LLMs for tool use and enterprise reasoning (including preference alignment with RLHF/RLAIF/DPO), agent evaluation, active learning of exemplars for few-shot text classification, abstractive summarization, and grounding & verifiability for generated text
  • Push the envelope of Moveworks commitments to responsible AI, expanding our infrastructure for ensuring models work equally well for all people, red-teaming models to ensure they behave safely and as intended, and keeping our ML at the cutting edge of data privacy and security
  • Use your knowledge of machine learning fundamentals and LLMs to design new algorithms and architectures, evaluate them with small scale experiments and productionize your solutions at scale
  • Research and develop innovative, scalable and dynamic solutions to hard problems
  • Use the latest advances in machine learning and LLMs to enhance our products and create delightful user experiences
  • Spend time weekly reading, discussing, and potentially building models out of the latest ML research and open-source code

Our take

Moveworks provides IT service and helpdesk support through an AI-driven chatbot. Its system utilizes information about an employee, such as their role and seniority level, to deliver the correct information or carry out processes. Moveworks claims to solve 30% of IT support tickets within weeks of implementation.

In 2024, Moveworks opened a data center in Australia and its service has seen strong uptake from large enterprise-level companies, where IT teams deal with hundreds of requests at a time, helping to minimize backlog and gain back employee time. As more and more workers move from office to home or hybrid, IT support requests have boomed, opening up the opportunity for Moveworks to expand its client pool and provide solutions to help with this change.

Competitors such as Electric offer similar automated IT support services, but Moveworks has invested heavily into creating an AI system that is conversational and easy to use. Automated solutions with machine learning capabilities can also identify cost-saving opportunities. When unused software licenses are estimated to cost companies billions of dollars a year, there is money to be made by identifying and removing these avoidable costs through AI.

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Top investors

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97% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2021

$200m

SERIES C

Nov 2019

$75m

SERIES B

Total funding: $305m

Company benefits

  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
  • Fully paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
  • Free daily meals
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Unlimited paid sick days
  • 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
  • Medical, family care, and military leave
  • Competitive salary — we’re one of the best-paying companies in the Bay Area
  • 401(k) with matching
  • Equity and stock options
  • Commuter and parking benefits

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

After an MA at Stanford, Bhavin worked as a Director at LeapFrog Enterprises before co-founding Gazillion after 5 years in 2005. They left their CEO role at Refresh to co-found Moveworks in June 2016.

Vaibhav started their career as a Stanford University Research Scientist before working for Aster Data as a Software Engineer. Having started ClearStory Data in 2011, they co-founded Moveworks in 2016.

Varun Singh

(President)

Varun worked for half a decade as SVP of Product at Sefaira before spending 2 years as Lead Product Manager at Facebook. They left in 2016 to co-found Moveworks.

Jiang Chen

(CTO of AI)

Jiang took a PhD at Yale in Computer Science before working as a Columbia Research Scientist and spending 7 years at Yahoo! and Google. After a year at Airbnb, they co-founded Moveworks.

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