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Gurugram · Hybrid · 8-11 Yrs · Aug 25
Telecommunications Services · 10000+ Employees · New Delhi, India
Airtel was founded to provide global connectivity and unlock endless opportunities. Our organization embodies a unique blend of energy, innovation, creativity, dedication, scale, and ownership, all aimed at being limitless. At Airtel, we strive to go beyond our duties to create impactful solutions for our consumers. Our team is highly skilled and constantly growing, actively developing infrastructure to introduce cutting-edge technologies like 5G, IoT, IQ, and Airtel Black. We have successfully launched 5G services in over 5,000 cities and towns nationwide, with 10 million unique customers on the 5G network nationally. Airtel Black is another convenient consumer service that provides combined billing for family and friends under a single bill. We also offer enterprise solutions, including national and international long-distance services for carriers. With a subscriber base exceeding 574 million as of 2023, we are committed to delivering effective products that contribute to the realization of a 'Digital India', enabling millions of individuals to connect and thrive for a brighter future. Our presence spans 7,915 census and 802,577 non-census towns and villages, covering almost 96% of the country's population with 388,726 Rkms of optical fiber and an extensive distribution network of 1.2 million outlets. We've also implemented conservation initiatives that have saved 14,676 MWh of electricity, 4412 tonnes of paper through our e-bill initiatives, and recycled 3330 tonnes of e-waste. At Airtel, we believe in taking early ownership, delivering quality, and experimenting with various career paths to boost our trajectories and gain valuable insights into the business, making us the best in the industry. We are committed to creating the ultimate experience for our consumers while maintaining an ecological balance in the world.
Hiring: Engineering
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Campus placement, it was really bad - the interviewers stretched my interview for 2 hours honing me with questions unrelated to the jd - and ultimately did not take me to the next round. I think the interview process sel
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Overview
We are looking for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to drive the ML charter for our streaming
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of ML engineers. Set technical direction, review designs and code, grow the
- Build and evolve the recommendation and search systems across liveTV, movies, TV
- Work cross functionally with Data Engineering, Platform, Backend, and Product. Represent
- Drive engineering excellence in the team. This includes observability, model monitoring,
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping ML systems at scale, with a strong track
- record in production impact rather than only offline results.
- Deep, non-negotiable hands on expertise with Kubernetes, PySpark, scikit learn,
- pandas, and PyTorch.
- Strong grounding in classical ML and modern deep learning. Comfort with embeddings,
- two tower models, sequence models, gradient boosted trees, and learning to rank.
- Solid experience with orchestration and ML lifecycle tooling such as Airflow and MLflow.
- Exposure to vector search, ANN indexes, retrieval augmented ranking, and neural
- information retrieval.
- Proven ability to design low latency, high throughput serving systems and to reason
- about tradeoffs between accuracy, latency, and cost.
- Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfort presenting to senior stakeholders
- and translating between business and ML language.
- Agile enough to wear multiple caps at same time and leading multiple charters at same
- Publications or open-source contributions in the recommender systems or IR space.
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