The Core Engineering, Machine Learning Engineer, New York, Vice President

The Core Engineering builds and operates the platforms, applications, data solutions, models, and analytics that power critical processes for The Core divisions of the firm (e.g., Risk, responsible for the risk profile of firm activities; Controllers, responsible for the financial control and reporting obligations; Compliance, responsible for the firm’s compliance, regulatory, and reputational risks; Corporate Treasury, responsible for the firm’s liquidity, funding, balance sheet, etc.; and Human Capital Management, responsible for attracting, developing, and managing a global workforce). A centralized engineering structure in support of The Core enables a common platform model and operating framework that promotes consistent governance and scalable solutions, leveraging cloud, AI, and machine learning for innovation and efficiency. The Core Engineering’s 2,000+ engineers and strats deliver engineering, data, analytics, and quantitative capabilities within six business units:

Metrics & Analytics Platforms: responsible for the measurement and management of the firm’s risk, capital, and liquidity for The Core functions

The Core Strats: responsible for the development and implementation of models and other quantitative methodologies, including the accuracy and attribution of modeled metrics

Financials & Reporting: responsible for facilitating the production of the firm’s financials and a wide range of reporting functions

Non-Financial Risk & Controls: responsible for non-financial risk and control processes

Enterprise Platforms: responsible for platforms and applications that support critical operational processes across The Core such as payments, people processes, and procurement

Shared Services: responsible for driving the adoption of consistent engineering strategy, including data platforms, cloud, and AI enablement, as well as the management of technology risk

Are you passionate about delivering mission-critical, high quality machine learning models, using cutting-edge technology, in a dynamic environment?

We are Compliance Engineering, a global team of more than 300 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems.

• build and operate a suite of platforms and applications that prevent, detect, and mitigate regulatory and reputational risk across the firm.
• have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data.
• leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive UX/UI and Big Data applications.

Within Compliance engineering, we are hiring for a Machine Learning Engineering role within Models Engineering.

The firm is making a significant investment improve the precision/ recall of the Compliance models portfolio in 2024.

To achieve that we are hiring experienced MLEs who have experience of developing and deploying ML models for big data in a distributed architecture.

As a member of our team, you will:

• Work with large scale structure and unstructured data. Drive end to end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of scale and complexity
• Build infra for machine learning which involves feature engineering and scaling models to work at scale
• Develop, productionize, and maintain ml models
• Run ML experiments by constantly tuning the features and the modeling approaches, documenting findings and results
• Collaborate closely with ML researchers, to accelerate the usage of cutting edge models
• Perform code reviews and ensure code quality

A successful candidate will possess the following attributes:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a similar field of study.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with building scalable machine learning systems
• Solid coding skills and strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design)
• Expertise in Python & PySpark
• Experience in working with distributed technologies like Scala, Pyspark, Iceberg, HDFS file formats (avro, parquet), AWS/ GCP, big data feature engineering.
• Experience in system design and evaluating the pros and cons of database choices, schema definition for data storage.
• Extensive experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning toolkits (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, HuggingFace)

in some of the following is desired and can set you apart from other candidates:

• Prior experience with LLMs and Prompt Engineering
• Prior experience in architecting/ deploying ML applications on AWS/ GCP
• Prior experience in code reviews/ architecture design for distributed systems.

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Salary Range The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $130000-$250000.

In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience.

A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.