Principal AI Engineer - Talent Marketplace

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid or remote work options, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or this role can be performed remotely in most locations in the country of employment.The mission of the Talent Marketplace team is to help LinkedIn’s members seek job opportunities, customers to find best candidates while creating economic value to the platform. This team is at the center of the largest LinkedIn business line to drive billion-dollar-level business impact and hundreds of millions of members find their next job, a complex problem-space with exciting opportunities to revolutionize the digital job marketplace. We develop cutting-edge AI technologies with a wide range of technologies such as deep learning, generative AI, large language models, recommender systems, ranking, search, advertising, auction theory and much more in our solutions, and support many areas of member and customer success within LinkedIn including Jobs-You-May-Be-Interested-In (JYMBII), Job Search, Jobs Notifications, LinkedIn Coach, etc. We closely partner with products, engineering and infrastructure teams to build the next generation AI-first product experience for our members.As a Principal Engineer, you will be one of the overall technical leads of Marketplace for Seekers and Jobs, covering a broad area of marketplace solutions that optimize for member, customer and platform values. You will guide the team on the next-generation digital jobs marketplace, advancing state of the art machine learning algorithms to help build the next-gen AI models to power various marketplace pillars. You are expected to deliver significant AI-powered marketplace improvement and have a direct impact on LinkedIn's top line metrics. You will closely work with product and engineering partners (at the level of Senior Directors+ and Principal Engineers+) to define and shape product and technical strategies for LinkedIn’s iconic jobs business. You have the opportunity to directly influence LinkedIn’s senior leadership (including C-level executives) with your technical expertise. You will be able to work with other senior leaders and senior individual contributors across LinkedIn to shape the company’s culture and values. You are also highly encouraged to have a strong external presence and publish/present your innovation in top tier conferences and journals.ResponsibilitiesDeliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scaleProvide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organizationActively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategiesDesign products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisionsIdentify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systemsWork closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmapResolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team cultureReview others’ work and share knowledgeBasic QualificationsBA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience10+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions10+ years experience programming languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, etc.5+ years in an architect or technical leadership positionPreferred QualificationsPh.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or related fields12+ years’ experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions7+ years in an architect or technical leadership position5+ years experience in Hadoop, Cosmos, Spark or MPI with solving big data problems5+ years experience in SparkML, TensorFlow or PyTorch with solving AI problemsStrong academic credentials with publications in tier-1 journals and conferencesStrong experience in designing and optimizing AI solutions for multi-sided marketplaces such as Advertising and E-commerce.Experience in designing and optimizing recommender and/or search systems that create highly personalized experiences for LinkedIn’s members and scale to solve complex business problemsExperience in leading large scale development projects from concept to multiple releases in productionExperience of technical leadership guiding and mentoring top engineering and operations talentExperience leading high-impact, cross-company initiativesExperience with deep learning, LLMs, graphs/graph mining, ranking, auction theory, optimization, CausalML.Expert in Advertising, Generative AI, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Graph, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision techniques.Demonstrated ability to work with peers in engineering and product management across teams to set technical and product directionsSuggested Skills:Technical LeadershipMachine LearningAlgorithmsLinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.The pay range for this role is $218,000 to $357,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefitsEqual Opportunity StatementLinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 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