Machine Learning Engineer II

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with
183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025
. Coursera partners with
over 350 leading university and industry partners
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We're a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We're looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you're ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera.

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Job Overview:
At Coursera, our Machine Learning team plays a crucial role in shaping the future of education through cutting-edge AI technologies such as natural language processing, computer vision, and generative models. We are dedicated to defining, developing, and launching models that drive content discovery, personalized learning, machine translation, skill tagging, and machine-assisted teaching and grading. Our vision is centered on creating a next-generation education experience that is personalized, accessible, and efficient. Leveraging our scale, extensive data, advanced technology, and talented team, Coursera is poised to transform this vision into reality.

Responsibilities:

• Work very closely with ML scientists and help them with model deployment in the production systems
• Work very closely with ML scientists to find and solve engineering pain-points by building scalable, general-use platforms
• Build scalable and reliable infrastructure and pipelines for data/feature processing and storage and also scalable training and evaluation infrastructure and pipelines to accelerate model development
• Automate ML workflows to enhance productivity across training, evaluation, testing, and results generation
• Partner with cross functional stakeholders to define a long-term vision for scaling ML/AI applications in production and help teams with their roadmap plannings

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, or related area with 3 Years minimum Machine Learning Scientist or Engineer industry experience
• Highly skilled with Java development, Python and SQL/MySQL.
• Highly skilled with proficiency in ML ops with experience in building large-scale ML applications, services, pipelines and architecture
• Solid understanding and experience in system design of ML systems (design pattern, OOD, architecture, modules, interfaces, etc)
• Highly skilled with distributed processing architecture and ML/data workflow management platform (Spark, Databricks, Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow etc)
• Experience with containerization such as Docker and Kubernates

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science, or related area with 1 Years minimum Machine Learning Engineer industry experience or Ph.D in in Computer Science, or related area
• Understanding in machine learning theory and practice, and experience using machine learning tools (Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.)
• Understanding and experience working with cloud-based solutions, especially AWS, Databricks
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, integrated tests and test-driven development
• Experience with microservice architectures such as RESTful web-services

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

• Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) Specialization
• Computer Vision for Engineering and Science Specialization
• Natural Language Processing Specialization

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