# Jeff Picard

> Senior Software Engineer at ZipRecruiter

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeffpicard

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ ZipRecruiter
Jan 2022 – Present
I work on machine learning products like the recommendation system and resume parser:
- Multi-gpu, multi-task transformer training workflows
- Distributed gRPC services and event streams
- Data pipelines for operational and datalake storage

### Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer @ Deep 6 AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Pasadena, California
I worked on data science + backend software engineering for search in a healthcare marketplace matching patients with clinical trials.
- Search ranking + retrieval system (Python)
- REST services (JVM, Spring boot, Elasticsearch, AWS)
- Big data pipelines running NLP on documents (Spark)

### Sr Data Scientist @ Factual Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles
Improve models (ML and heuristics), and put them in production for problems like classifiers and ad-recommendation. (sklearn, JVM/python, Spark, Airflow, SQL, React)

### Software Engineer @ 3dSunshine
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles
Game development at a startup creating a VR app to let you build Lego-like sets and edit game maps with your hands. (Unity)

### Intern @ The Aerospace Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | El Segundo
Applying concepts from compressed sensing research to geolocation problems, creating interactive visualizations to demonstrate.

### Summer Research Student @ Fermilab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Batavia, IL
Simulated datasets the LHC could have after potential detector upgrades. Then analyzed Higgs boson properties on that simulated data in C++ to estimate the benefit of various upgrades on our ability to learn about the Higgs. Research under Professor Maria Spiropulu.


## Education
### B.S. in Physics
Caltech
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jeff-t-picard

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Last updated: 2026-03-22