Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer

Hugging Face

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer improving open-source ML ecosystem at Hugging Face. Collaborating with users and contributors on libraries like Transformers and Pytorch.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

work to improve the open-source machine learning ecosystem
mainly work on existing open-source libraries such as Transformers, Datasets, Pytorch and vLLM
interact with users and contributors across the broad open-source ML ecosystem
help foster one of the most active machine learning communities, helping users contribute to and use the tools built
work with researchers, ML practitioners, and data scientists every day through GitHub, forums, and Slack

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong Python skills, with experience writing clean, well-tested, maintainable library code
Deep hands-on experience with a modern deep-learning framework, especially PyTorch (JAX or TensorFlow a plus)
Practical experience with the Hugging Face open-source stack (Transformers, Datasets, Accelerate) or comparable ML libraries
A public track record of open-source contributions, for example merged pull requests to ML or data libraries, that we can review on GitHub
Solid understanding of modern machine learning and deep learning, including transformer architectures
Experience collaborating with a technical community in the open (GitHub issues and reviews, forums, Slack or Discord)
Fluent written English for asynchronous collaboration across a distributed, global community

Benefits

Comp & perks

flexible working hours and remote options
health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
parental leave and flexible paid time off
reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
company equity as part of their compensation package

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonPyTorchTransformersDatasetsHugging Facedeep learningmachine learningclean codewell-tested codetransformer architectures

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationcommunity engagementuser interactioncontributor interactionasynchronous collaborationtechnical community collaboration