Lead of Search (across all verticals at Snap), Content Understanding (including story and creator comprehension), and Content Moderation & Quality (covering ML-driven moderation and enforcement systems).

Team Focus Areas:

Software Engineering:

• Moderation infrastructure and tooling (including web frontend)

• Search Indexing and Backend

• Search Clients (iOS & Android)

• LLM infrastructure to power Search experiences

Machine Learning Engineering:

• LLM prompting strategies

• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning (RL-FT) of LLMs

• Distilled LLMs optimized for scale

• Agentic LLM applications in moderation

• Multimodal embeddings

• Clustering techniques

• Search retrieval and ranking algorithms

We are a team of engineers passionate about solving classical ML problems by adopting Large Language Models.

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