At Forge (NYSE: FRGE), we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, humble, and accountable. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to planet-saving, plant-based nutrition, and more.

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.

Forge’s differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

The Role:

As our Tech Lead in AI/ML, you will play a crucial role in the hands-on development of mentoring peers and delivery of AI products powered by our internal AI models and machine learning pipelines. You’ll identify new opportunities for AI solutions throughout the organization, and set the direction and roadmap required to implement MLOPS. You will partner with the team through the creation of AI models, and develop, and deploy LLM-based applications in production, evaluating and improving their performance and accuracy over time. Collaborating closely with Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you’ll ensure seamless integration of AI technologies into our products, setting new standards for data quality and model performance.

This will be a hybrid role where you’ll be onsite 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco, CA office

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain a AI/ML platform that is accurate, secure, and fast
Lead workstreams within a lean and agile environment from requirements gathering to creating a plan of actionable tasks for the team
Provide coaching, and mentorship to members of the data team on architecture, software development best practices, and new technologies
Establish evaluation criteria for data quality tracking and production ML model tracking
Partner with product, research, and engineering to ensure product changes integrate effectively

Qualifications:

6+ years in MLOps, ML engineering, MLOps, and data science with 2+ years leading and mentoring agile teams. Proven expertise in deploying essential MLOps components like CI/CD, model registry, and input loading
Skilled in creating and launching diverse models (statistical, LLM, GenAI, GPT 3.5/4.0) from POC to production
Proven ability to manage projects and programs, leading small teams (2-5 members) and directly handling data analysis, modeling, data pipeline setup, and MLOps
Skilled in AIML, using platforms like AWS, Amazon Bedrock, and Snowflake, and proficient in Python, SQL, Tableau, and Alteryx
3+ years of experience working with Jupyter Notebooks, Git, GitHub, JIRA, and weights & biases, enhancing collaboration and version control in project development
Significant collaboration with research teams, contributing hands-on research skills that advance project outcomes
Previous experience working in Private Markets, Financial Services or FinTech space

Preferred Qualifications:

2+ years of Tech Lead and management experience; taking on role as player coach and providing mentorship
Experience migrating data sets and workflows between legacy data platforms and services
Familiarity with stream processing and event driven architecture
Comfortable moving quickly and working in a fast-paced, agile XP, lean environment
Experience in leading offshore and nearshore teams is highly valued

For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary range for this role is $200,000 - $215,000 + bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, annual bonus, and other factors.

Forge implements a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which applies to all employees. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Forge. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. Employees must provide truthful and accurate information about their COVID-19 vaccination status, and, if applicable, their testing results as of the first date of their employment.

Employees may request an exception from this mandatory vaccination policy if the vaccine is medically contraindicated for them or medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. Employees also may be legally entitled to a reasonable accommodation if they cannot be vaccinated because of a disability, or if the provisions in this policy for vaccination conflict with a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. All such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Tech Lead – AI/ML

Forge Global

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This will be a hybrid role where you’ll be onsite 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco, CA office

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