Senior ML Research Engineer – Sustainable Finance

Overview

In this role you apply advanced ML and NLP to sustainability-related finance challenges at Bloomberg, shaping AI-driven, real-time solutions for investors. You collaborate with domain experts to translate research into production systems and contribute to the sustainability data platform and models. You will work on high-impact problems like real-time controversy detection, emissions estimation, and ML explainability to empower informed decisions. This opportunity blends cutting-edge research with scalable, production-ready systems in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with domain experts to identify and assess sustainability risks
• Own cross-team projects from research to production deployment
• Research and train ML models for sustainability risk assessment
• Design real-time NLP pipelines using large language models
• Develop evaluation frameworks and annotation tooling for continuous improvement
• Stay current with NLP, LLMs, and estimation techniques and translate findings into models
• Represent Bloomberg at conferences and in open-source communities
• Publish product and research findings in documents and venues

Key requirements

• Production ML experience with applications to sustainability or responsible investment
• Hands-on experience with ML problems and Large Language Models
• Ph.D. or relevant MSc in CS, ML, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or related fields and relevant work
• Python proficiency and experience with production ML infrastructure (model serving, data pipelines, evaluation)
• Familiarity with LLM-based systems for information extraction from text
• Solid CS fundamentals and data-oriented problem solving

• Excellent communication and collaboration with engineers and non-engineering stakeholders
• Strong interdisciplinary coordination with sustainable finance analysts and product managers
• Ability to convey research ideas clearly and influence cross-functional teams
• Production ML systems
• Large Language Models
• NLP pipelines

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