Senior AI Research Engineer

As a part of our AI teams you'll work with talented AI engineers at every level to improve our search and recommendation solutions within AppGallery. This role allows you to directly affect user experience of millions of AppGallery users. You'll have a chance to thrive in a multinational environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize CTR prediction, collaborative filtering, graph-based models and ranking models for efficient and accurate recommendation functionality in app store domain.
• Conduct feature engineering and data analysis to drive better model performance and insights.
• Design, build and deploy scalable ML services on Huawei's MLOps platform to address business requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze complex data requirements and design innovative software solutions.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers in the areas of search, information retrieval, deep learning, and NLP.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in search, information retrieval, ranking, deep learning and NLP and integrate them into our products and services.
• Produce academic outputs in the form of papers, patents, and technical talks.

Qualifications:

• Minimum MS degree or PHD degree with focus on RecSys, IR and DL, preferably in a computer science & engineering or related fields.
• Minimum 3 years of experience preferably in industry.
• Strong Python programming skills with proven experience crafting, prototyping, and delivering machine learning solutions into production.
• Experience with popular deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and ML & DL libraries.
• Publication records in journals or conferences related with RecSys, IR, NLP especially in the areas of ctr prediction, vector retrieval, semantic search and ranking.
• Experience in integrating deep models, language models (LMs) and ranking models for large-scale recommendation engines using these specialized techniques.
• Previous project experience in search or recommendation systems domain is a big plus.
• Java service development experience using Spring and related topics & technologies is a plus (RESTful services, Redis, ElasticSearch, RDBMS)
• Fluency in English is important, reading/writing skills in Russian and/or Arabic is a plus.