AI Engineer

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or New York City. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities:

AI is at the core of how LinkedIn connects more than a billion members to opportunity across jobs, sales, marketing, content, and trust platforms. As an AI Software Engineer you will own end-to-end machine learning systems that run in production at LinkedIn scale. You won't just train models, you will own the recommender and classification system that power LinkedIn’s core products. Your responsibilities cover the full product lifecycle from translating product requirements into system design, training the models to power the system, driving the experiments that prove efficacy, and managing the GPU fleets that run them at scale in milliseconds; you are the engine that drives value for our members.

This is an individual-contributor role; we expect you to be the owner of a well-defined significant workstream, align technical direction within your team, review code and technical designs from your team, and to deliver measurable member and business impact with a sense of urgency.

What success looks like in your first year:

• Grow to the owner of an AI workstream end to end and ship at least one model-based system to a measured impact on member or business value.
• You become the go-to point of contact for your domain within our team and help others onboard to it as needed.
• Implement an efficiency or quality improvement (i.e. inference/training efficiency, engineer velocity, or tech-debt removal) backed by data.
• You operate systems reliably as on-call and work with senior engineers to root-cause at least one significant production regression.

Why LinkedIn:

You'll work on AI systems with immediate, measurable impact on more than a billion members, alongside engineers who set the industry bar for recommendation systems at scale powered by the latest open source generative models and GPU inference. We encourage staying up to date on industry state-of-the-art and sharing your work with the community through conference, journal, and blog publications. We invest in your growth with real mentorship, we trust you with real ownership, and we measure what matters: impact, not output according to our core engineering principles.

• Impact: quantify the value you created for members, the business and your team
• Leadership: communicate and lead through influence, not authority
• Execution: deliver impact with a sense of urgency
• Craft: innovate and create leverage with high-quality solutions

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
• 1+ years experience with machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval or natural language processing
• 1+ year of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 1+ years experience in programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant AI/Machine Learning experience.
• MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Experience with PyTorch or similar Deep Learning frameworks
• Experience with Spark for data manipulation and transformation
• Experience with A/B testing at scale in a consumer-facing product
• Experience with AI code development (i.e ClaudeCode, Codex, Copilot)
• Experience adapting pre-trained LLMs to production systems including fine-tuning and student-teacher model paradigms
• Published work in academic conferences or industry circles.

Suggested Skills:

• Data Mining
• Data Coding
• Machine Learning

You will Benefit from our Culture:

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $120,000 - $195,000. 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.