O pozici
VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.
StockStory, now part of CNBC under VERSANT, is building the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors. This is a chance to build products that can shape how millions of consumers understand markets and make investing decisions.
We offer the best parts of a startup environment - small team, high ownership, fast execution, and room to experiment - with the backing and stability of VERSANT, an independent publicly traded media company.
Co budeš dělat
- Lead the architecture and implementation of production ML and AI systems used at scale
- Drive technical strategy for AI across multiple product areas
- Design end-to-end systems including data pipelines, training workflows, inference services, evaluation, and monitoring
- Own and deliver high-impact projects with significant ambiguity
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration
- Identify and mitigate systemic risks in AI systems, including performance regressions, bias, and operational failure modes
- Guide model lifecycle management, monitoring, and evaluation practices
Koho hledáme
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on machine learning or AI systems
- Experience building and operating production ML systems
- Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Java
- Proven experience with LLMs, ranking or recommendation systems, search, or applied NLP
- Deep understanding of modern ML techniques, including deep learning and representation learning
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across teams
- Ability to proactively share ML knowledge and best practices, fostering a collaborative and non-siloed engineering culture
- Prior experience leading or founding an AI systems team
- Hands-on experience with neural networks, including CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, or other deep learning architectures
- Background in classical and modern NLP techniques such as tokenization, sequence labeling, language modeling, embeddings, text classification, and information extraction
- Experience with large-scale training pipelines using frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Experience building human-in-the-loop training or evaluation workflows
Benefity
- We offer the best parts of a startup environment - small team, high ownership, fast execution, and room to experiment - with the backing and stability of VERSANT, an independent publicly traded media company.
- A particularly rare part of this role is the level of direct access to experienced market professionals, including former hedge fund managers and top-tier analysts, whose insights can directly inform how you think about modeling, signals, and product design. For an ambitious AI engineer, it is an unusual opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and advanced data systems while learning firsthand how sophisticated investors analyze businesses and markets.
- This role sits within a small and growing, high-caliber team where individuals are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy, contributing directly to core product, infrastructure, and modeling decisions while working closely with engineering and senior leadership in a highly collaborative, low-bureaucracy environment with direct access to decision-makers.
