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Manager, Machine Learning Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$208K - $312K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Manager, Machine Learning Engineer
Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology
• Lead a team of 6 ML engineers to bring state of the art AI to Clio's clients, spanning traditional ML models, GenAI, and agentic AI. • Guide the team in designing and shipping agentic systems, including retrieval, tool use, orchestration, and the evaluation frameworks that keep them reliable and safe in production. • Collaborate cross-functionally with MLOps engineering, product management, operations, and data science to identify new tooling for ML and LLM-driven features for Clio customers. • Work in an agile environment with our team of ML engineers, ML ops, and full stack developers across a variety of projects. • Learn new things, challenge yourself, and hone your craft as an ML and infrastructure expert in a space that is moving fast. • Participate in diverse projects and collaborate with multiple engineering teams across three countries. • Review and provide feedback on code, both from within your own team or across all of Clio. • Collaborate with teams across Clio to diagnose, understand, and solve problems, and to build solutions that may span many areas. • Teach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help grow.
Job Requirements
- Experience in managing high performing teams (6+ ML Engineers).
- Experience with technical evaluations of various ML and LLM products, vendors, out-of-the-box solutions, and conducting quick proof of concepts if necessary.
- In-depth understanding of LLMs, GenAI, and the competitive landscape, including where the technology is heading.
- Hands-on familiarity with building agentic systems, such as tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines, prompt and context design, and evaluating agent behavior at scale.
- Experience in fine-tuning foundational models and/or training language models in-house.
- Experience to manipulate, clean, and pre-process complex unstructured data for model development.
- The ability to become fluent in new technologies quickly and work effectively in an ever-evolving environment that includes distributed teams and customers.
- Demonstrated success in mentorship in software development, particularly using an Agile process and with large scale SaaS products.
- A diverse base of knowledge that allows you to help your team solve complex technical problems.
- A history of past projects (including notable successes and lessons learned).
- Clear and concise communication skills and the ability to build high-trust relationships with fellow Clions and customers.
Benefits
- Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
- Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.
- Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
- EAP benefits for you and household members, including counseling and online resources
- 401k matching and Child Education Savings
- Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years
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