Staff Machine Learning Engineer

At Thorn, our cause is our code. We are a nonprofit whose mission of defending children from sexual exploitation and abuse is deeply embedded within our core—a shared code that drives us to do challenging work with resilience and determination. Here, you’ll work and grow among the best hearts and the best minds in tech, data, and business alongside our network of independent partners, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies. Together, we’re focused on building technology that protects children’s futures. We are looking for dynamic problem solvers with the desire to help address some of today’s toughest issues.

You'll collaborate with a diverse group of peers in a remote environment centered on wellness, care, and compassion. In 2019, we took the stage at TED and shared our audacious goal of eliminating child sexual abuse material from the internet. Come join us to help make this goal a reality and build a world where every child can be safe, curious, and happy.

About the Role

As a Staff ML Engineer at Thorn, this role will design, build, deploy and maintain world class models, classifiers and algorithms to increase Thorn’s capabilities to achieve our mission of the elimination of child sexual exploitation. They will be the go-to expert in one or more domains of machine learning and provide critical guidance to multiple teams across legal, engineering, product, business development and external affairs.

They will directly contribute to the Machine Learning team’s critical function in Thorn’s mission - building automated solutions that: Reduce the time it takes to identify a child sexual abuse victim, elevating the most vulnerable and high risk victims from an ocean of online content Enable the removal of child sexual abuse material from the internet, finding known and new content Prevent online abuse from happening in the first place, detecting abusive content before it spreads They are responsible for ensuring that their work is high quality, as well as mentoring other ML Engineers.

They will thrive in highly ambiguous problem spaces and be able to creatively design and build scalable solutions with minimum direction. They will demonstrate persistence and strong technical expertise to navigate legal, product, and technical constraints. They are responsible for partnering with the engineers, product manager and designers across different products to drive requirements, as well as any and all relevant external partners, taking into account all stakeholder needs.

What You’ll Do Own end-to-end model development: design, build, test and maintain machine learning systems and algorithms Lead machine learning system designs, set engineering standards, lead technical meetings and proactively engage and mentor other engineers Help debug, do code review, and support general machine learning initiatives led by other members of the Machine Learning team. Define data sourcing and labeling strategy for your technical domain, proactively identifying future data…

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