Lead ML Engineer

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 700+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 140M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

About You

You believe in the power of AI to build amazing, interesting, and insightful products and services for humanity… and you’d love to do that in chess!

What you’ll do

• Evaluate and prioritize the many services that can benefit from ML
• Work on the product and architectural implications
• Build, deploy, and test models
• Work with our team to set up production-level infrastructure to support these services getting into the hands of our community

Preferred Skills

• 10+ years building LLMs (Kidding! Just show us that you have been working in this space for a time)
• Ability to take things from idea → research → prototype → production → feedback → improvement. You have to be able to and excited to complete the full cycle!
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time or contract position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)
• This is open to applicants anywhere

You can learn more about us here:

• https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about

We look forward to meeting you!