Associate Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Lucidworks

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $100,000 - $125,000 per year

JuniorMid-Level

CloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesNumpyPandasPythonPyTorchRayRedis

About the role

Learn and assist in assessing models and understanding model selection for different use cases
Support experiments and evaluation for search-specific tasks
Contribute to integrating pre-trained language and embedding models into search, agentic, and recommendation pipelines
Support the development of automated model training, assessment, and deployment processes
Contribute to software and tooling that improves automation and service reliability
Stay current on AI best practices and share learnings with the team
Participate in design discussions and contribute fresh perspectives
Collaborate with software team members in a fast-paced Agile environment
Grow your skills while working effectively with distributed teams
All other duties as assigned

0-2 years of professional experience OR relevant internship/project experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Strong programming fundamentals in Python
Familiarity with common data science libraries such as pandas, numpy, and transformers/sentence-transformers
Basic exposure to large language models through coursework, tutorials, or personal projects
Basic understanding of PyTorch
Basic understanding of microservices concepts and containerization (Docker knowledge preferred)
Eagerness to learn cloud technologies and production AI systems
Experience with version control (Git) is a plus
Exposure to LLM fine-tuning techniques (e.g., LoRA, QLoRA) is preferred
Familiarity with prompt engineering, context design, and LLM evaluation methods
Personal or academic projects demonstrating AI implementation or LLM usage or contributions to open-source AI projects are a plus
Acceptable background check