Senior Machine Learning Engineer - BLAW / BGOV / BTAX
Bloomberg
Bloomberg Law, Tax & Government (BLAW/BTAX/BGOV) delivers AI-powered solutions that integrate trusted editorial content with billions of documents and data points to support legal, tax, accounting, and government professionals.
The Product AI Enablement Team builds ML and AI solutions to solve concrete business problems, embedding them directly into user workflows and iterating rapidly using early customer feedback.
What you’ll work on
An example of a current project involves building agentic AI workflows for corporate tax compliance. Agents will analyze complex tax spreadsheets, identify relevant tax topics, retrieve recent statutory and regulatory changes from Bloomberg datasets, generate grounded analysis with citations, and guide users through impacted calculations using a conversational interface. Agents then suggest changes to spreadsheet cells by reasoning over tables, formulas, dependencies, layout, and user-specific spreadsheet styling.
Technical focus
We apply a wide range of ML and NLP techniques, including:
Agentic AI: tool-calling, MCP configuration, context engineering, prompt tuning, deep research, agent routing, conversational frameworks
Information Enrichment: NER/disambiguation, classification, topic modeling
Content Generation: summarization, document drafting, legal insight generation, recommendation systems
We leverage internal platforms for Information Retrieval, Agent Factory, Conversational AI, Knowledge Graphs, Reasoning Models, and Guardrails to deliver end-to-end solutions.
How we work
You’ll work in a forward-deployed, agile environment with software engineers, product managers, subject matter experts, and annotators. We prioritize iterative development, early customer engagement, and rapid feedback-driven improvement. ML ambiguity is expected; success requires ownership, adaptability, and strong collaboration.
Responsibilities
Lead ML projects end-to-end as the primary technical owner
Translate business problems into well-scoped ML problems
Design and develop domain-specific ML, NLP, and LLM-based solutions
Define evaluation metrics and make data-driven decisions
Write and maintain production-quality ML code
Collaborate with AI platform, data, and frontend engineers for deployment and lifecycle management
Manage stakeholder expectations throughout development and release
Stay current with ML/NLP research and apply relevant advances
Requirements
4+ years of experience in ML/AI, preferably NLP
Proven experience delivering production NLP systems
Strong intuition for problem formulation and model selection
Proven delivery of production NLP systems and integration in user workflows
Experience with GenAI evaluations, grounding, AI safety & compliance
MS or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to have
Familiarity with weak supervision, reinforcement learning, semantic search, and knowledge graphs
Systems thinking for Agentic design & tool-using for multi-step agentic workflows
Experience across the full ML lifecycle: scoping, data collection, training, evaluation, optimization, and deployment
Research publications, ML competitions, or demonstrable projects
Interest in legal, tax, or government domains (prior experience not required)