Jake Allan Skinner

Jake Allan Skinner

About

Detail

Senior AI/ML Engineer at Cohere, ex-Google
United States

Contact Jake regarding: 
Flexible work
Starting at USD75/hour
Finding co-founders
groups
Networking

Timeline


work
Job
school
Education

Résumé


Jobs verified_user 0% verified
  • Cohere
    Senior AI Engineer
    Cohere
    Jun 2023 - Apr 2026 (2 years 11 months)
    • Built hybrid retrieval systems combining BM25, dense embeddings, reranking, and query rewriting across large enterprise document collections where vector-only retrieval produced inconsistent grounding on ambiguous and long-tail queries • Designed retrieval and reasoning workflows separating retrieval, grounding, and synthesis stages, improving inspectability and reducing hallucinated cross-document joins across multi-step AI systems • Implemented structured tool-selection layers enabling models to dynamically route between semantic retrieval, metadata filters, structured query systems, and deterministic computation based on query intent and confidence scoring • Built enterprise document understanding pipelines handling OCR inconsistencies
  • Labelbox
    Senior AI Engineer
    Labelbox
    Jan 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 5 months)
    • Built multimodal workflows on the Labelbox platform using Catalog, ontologies, and metadata indexing to improve dataset traceability and edge-case discovery across production AI pipelines. • Designed refinement loops integrating model-assisted labeling and human-in-the-loop review workflows, enabling targeted correction of high-impact model failure cases. • Developed document understanding systems processing noisy PDFs, OCR artifacts, inconsistent layouts, and unstructured enterprise documents affecting downstream retrieval accuracy. • Built multi-stage pipelines combining OCR extraction, layout segmentation, entity normalization, metadata enrichment, and deterministic validation into inspectable workflow stages. • Introduced validation l
  • PathAI
    Senior AI Engineer
    PathAI
    May 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 8 months)
    • Built scalable inference services supporting AI-assisted pathology and diagnostic workflows operating across large-scale clinical and molecular datasets. • Developed end-to-end ML pipelines using AWS SageMaker for pathology imaging, whole-slide metadata processing, and diagnostic annotation workflows supporting computational pathology systems. • Designed normalization pipelines for pathology reports, EHR-derived records, laboratory systems, and imaging metadata where inconsistencies and missing fields directly affected downstream clinical inference workflows. • Built low-latency backend APIs supporting diagnostic search, workflow orchestration, and real-time inference across cloud-native pathology platforms. • Optimized distributed system
  • S
    partner
    SOLAR HEALTH PAIN MANAGEMENT
    Oct 2019 - Current (6 years 8 months)
    Responsible for financing operation management
  • Google
    Senior Software Engineer
    Google
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 4 months)
    • Built ML infrastructure and backend services within Azure ML supporting scalable model training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management across distributed cloud environments • Designed model lifecycle systems managing reproducibility, validation, deployment consistency, and rollback safety across production ML workflows. • Improved observability across ML services using metrics, distributed tracing, and centralized logging, reducing production debugging time for distributed inference systems • Optimized inference pipelines for high-throughput workloads, reducing latency and improving operational reliability across cloud-native services
  • Google
    Software Engineer II
    Google
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (2 years)
    • Built distributed data pipelines supporting large-scale analytics and ML workflows across Azure cloud systems • Contributed to end-to-end machine learning workflows enabling scalable training and data-to-model processing on enterprise-scale datasets • Integrated ML models into production services with rollout validation, monitoring, and reliability mechanisms supporting stable cloud deployments • Designed backend services handling high request volumes with strict latency, scalability, and availability requirements across distributed systems
  • Google
    Software Engineer
    Google
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (1 year)
    • Built backend services supporting early ML platform capabilities focused on scalable data ingestion and preprocessing workflows across distributed cloud environments • Developed distributed infrastructure for data processing and model training workflows, improving scalability and operational efficiency for enterprise analytics systems • Worked on distributed systems fundamentals including service communication, fault tolerance, scalability, and reliability across backend platform services • Participated in on-call rotations, debugging production issues and contributing long-term reliability improvements for cloud-based applications
  • 香港交易所
    Director of human resources department
    香港交易所
    Mar 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 11 months)
    1. The company's development strategy, overall planning and overall planning of human resources. 2 Establish and improve the design and management mode of human resources system, including recruitment and training.
  • Bank of Beijing
    Financial supervisor
    Bank of Beijing
    Jan 2009 - Apr 2012 (3 years 4 months)
    Be responsible for formulating and completing the company's financial accounting system, regulations and methods.
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • L
    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
    LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2015 (3 years 1 month)
  • Shanghai Business School
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES
    Shanghai Business School
    Jan 2004 - Dec 2008 (5 years)
    Got a master's degree