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Zara Ahmed

Zara Ahmed

Early-career ML — evals, fine-tuning, small models
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging FaceRemote (US) · America/New_York3 yrs · IC3
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AI match score
81/ 100
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Last touched3w ago
OwnerMei Lin
Comp expectation$200,000–$260,000
Flight risklow
OverviewExperience6Education2Skills17Projects2Activity17

Current role

Machine Learning Engineer · Oct 2024—Present (1 yr 6 mo)

HF
Hugging Face
AI/ML · growth · Team of 15

Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

Selected accomplishments

  • Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +47% task-completion rate in the user cohort

    Designed a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval path with re-ranking; reduced hallucinations on long-tail queries.

  • Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    28+ teams onboarded in 6 months

    Built rubric-based offline evals that gated deploys; reduced regression incidents materially.

Work history

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Signal skills

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Notable projects

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Pipeline snapshot

Match81
Activities17
SequenceFounding engineer · step 3/5
Next actionTechnical screen on Apr 18

Associated req

Machine Learning Engineer, Evals
Applied ML · IC3
$180,000–$260,000

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