We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to build the AI/ML foundation that will transform how working adults navigate their education and career journeys. This is a high-impact role where your work ships to production and drives measurable outcomes for the millions of members we serve.
Requirements
- Design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI/ML models that integrate into the product experience and drive measurable improvements in member outcomes and business performance
- Build robust evaluation frameworks including offline metrics, A/B testing, and monitoring strategies to assess model performance and business impact
- Own the end-to-end model lifecycle: deployment, monitoring, drift detection, retraining, and incident response using Guild's MLOps best practices
- Manipulate and analyze large, complex datasets using Python, SQL, Databricks, MLFlow, dbt, and Snowflake
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate strategic challenges into concrete, lasting AI/ML solutions
- Collaborate with engineering, innovation architects, and technical experts to operationalize models and stay current on emerging AI capabilities
- Influence the technical roadmap and architecture of Guild's AI platform by making principled tradeoffs across model complexity, scalability, latency, and cost
- Translate cutting-edge research (reinforcement learning, foundation models) into pragmatic, scalable solutions while exercising judgment about when ML is the right tool
Benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents
- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
