About the job
Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Consumer Gen AI Product MLE team at Snap!
Responsibilities
Develop ML-products and AI Lenses that serve millions of Snapchatters on a daily basis, with a primary focus on image and video generation and editing, as well as LLMs
Build cutting-edge augmented reality experiences with diffusion/flow matching models
Work on state of the art GenAI pipelines for image and video generation. Ship a consumer- facing solution within weeks
Extensively collaborate with Product, Software Engineering, Lens Content and Data Science teams to prototype new ideas, integrate ML models and APIs into production, and refine them through A/B testing and user feedback
Actively monitor the market and research landscape for new developments in Gen AI, evaluate open-source models and third-party AI APIs/services to inform build-vs-buy decisions to leverage the best available tools (or iterate on them) to keep Snap’s products at the cutting edge
Evaluate open-source Gen AI models and APIs
Qualifications
Minimum
Strong background in Machine Learning
Strong programming skills in Python or C++
Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of engineering experience in one or more of the following: neural rendering, generative models, segmentation, object detection, classification, tracking, or other related applications of deep learning or computer vision
Preferred
Knowledge of computer graphics foundations
Experience with visual Gen AI models for Image and Video generation and Editing
Experience with evaluating the visual quality of Image and Video models
Track record of successful projects in GenAI field
Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work