Machine Learning Engineer - SEEK Pass (Hybrid Working)

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Team  

SEEK Pass is a trusted digital passport used by over 3 million people to manage and share their verified identity, credentials, and documents. We aim to integrate across the HR ecosystem to provide more value, security and convenience for individuals and organisations in employment-related processes.     

Our primary use case today is helping job seekers to stand out on SEEK by pre-verifying their qualifications, licences and other credentials so that employers can shortlist them with confidence and speed. We operate as a distinct cross-functional business unit, with integrations into SEEK’s job marketplaces across Asia-Pacific.   

Learn more about SEEK Pass at: https://seekpass.co  

 About the role  

 Our teams build products and solutions for internal and external customers across SEEK Pass and the wider SEEK Group. As an ML Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying cutting-edge machine learning models (OCR, IQA, Document Classification, Fraud Detection, Face Recognition, etc.), leveraging data to drive impactful solutions. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, applying your expertise to design, optimize, and deploy scalable algorithms, enhancing our products and services through the power of artificial intelligence. 

Some of the technology we're using includes Python, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, along with a strong focus on machine learning and AI, leveraging AWS SageMaker AWS Lambda, and many other AWS services, LoRA, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, and scikit-learn. We work extensively with LLMs for multi-modal tasks, including computer vision and document understanding.

Qualifications

For this role, we have a very open mind in terms of specific work experience. If you have the right mindset and capabilities, then we strongly encourage you to apply. Here are some things we would regard highly:  

• Proven experience in developing and deploying machine learning models, with a solid understanding of algorithms, statistical modeling, and optimization techniques. 
• Mastery in Python for data manipulation, scripting, and model implementation. 
• Proficiency in utilizing frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras to build and deploy neural networks and deep learning models. 
• Strong skills in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis (EDA) using tools like Pandas, NumPy, or similar libraries. 
• Ability to evaluate model performance, optimize algorithms, and fine-tune parameters to achieve desired outcomes. 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) and experience deploying ML models in production environments would be a significant advantage. 
• A passion for continuous learning, adaptability to evolving technologies, and a drive to explore new methodologies and tools in the ML landscape. 

As a team member we value the following traits:  

• Passion and happiness in learning new things (if you don't know something - you find out. If you can't do something - you learn)  
• A keen curiosity about the overall business context and building phenomenal user experiences  

Nice to have (but not essential):  

• Experience in a start-up / scale-up environment  
• Experience with identity or document verification and compliance  

Additional Information

Perks and benefits 
At SEEK we offer: 

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role. 
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year 
• Casual dress – every day 

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.