Product Owner, Machine Learning
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Staff Machine Learning Scientist
intercom Inc,.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dublin • 🇮🇪 Ireland
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Lead
Tech Stack
SQL
About the role
- Play an active role in hiring, mentoring and career development of other engineers
- Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
- Identify areas where ML can create value for our customers
- Identify the right ML framing of product problems - Working with teammates and Product and Design stakeholders
- Conduct exploratory data analysis and research - Deeply understand the problem area
- Research and identify the right algorithms and tools - Being pragmatic, but innovating right to the cutting-edge when needed
- Perform offline evaluation to gather evidence an algorithm will work
- Work with engineers to bring prototypes to production
- Plan, measure & socialize learnings to inform iteration
- Partner deeply with the rest of team, and others, to build excellent ML products
- Define new ML features, research appropriate algorithms and rapidly get first prototypes in our customers’ hands
- Work in a product-focused team collaborating closely with Product and Design and ML product engineers to ship to beta and production quickly
Requirements
- 5-8 years applied ML experience
- Previous background in a senior/staff role (data science, software development or academic)
- Significant, demonstrated impact that your work has had on the product and/or the teams
- Strong programming skills
- Experience as the primary technical leader for a team
- Strong communication skills, both within engineering teams and across disciplines
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Typically have advanced education in ML or related field (e.g. MSc)
- Scientific thinking skills
- Track record shipping ML products
- PhD or other experience in a research environment
- Deep experience in an applicable ML area - E.g. NLP, Deep learning, Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, clustering
- Strong stats or math background
- Visualization, data skills, SQL, matplotlib, etc.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
- We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
- Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
- Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
- Open vacation policy and flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need it
- Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers
- If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too
- MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
machine learningdata analysisalgorithmsprototypingNLPdeep learningBayesian methodsreinforcement learningclusteringSQL
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationleadershipscientific thinkingcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityoperational excellenceperformance improvementcreativity
Certifications
PhDMScadvanced education in ML