Target

Lead Machine Learning Engineer – Item Recommendations

Target

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SunnyvaleCaliforniaMinnesotaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $132,000 - $286,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • join a Data Sciences team responsible for creating personalized recommendations on Target.com and the Target App
  • play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing production machine learning solutions
  • conduct training sessions, present work to technical and non-technical peers/leaders
  • build knowledge on business priorities/strategic goals and leverage this knowledge while building requirements and solutions for each business need

Requirements

  • 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience
  • MS in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or equivalent work or industry experience
  • 5 plus years' of experience in end-to-end Machine Learning application development, including data pipelining, model optimization, deployment, and API design
  • Highly proficient programming in Python
  • Experience with ML frameworks such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, xgboost, sklearn, and ONNX
  • Experience with one or more cloud ML services such as Vertex AI, Azure ML or Sagemaker
  • Experience using distributed training frameworks like Spark, Ray, TensorFlow Distributed
  • Experience with serving frameworks such as TorchServe/TensorFlow or Serving/FastAPI
  • Good understanding of Big Data tech, specifically Hadoop ecosystem – Spark, Kafka, Hive, etc.
  • Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated model deployment and testing
  • Work in partnership with applied data scientists, software engineers and product managers to understand the business requirements - translate to machine learning solutions at scale
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs, and narratives
  • Self-driven and results oriented; able to meet tight timelines
  • Motivated, team player with ability to collaborate effectively across global team
  • Experience in mentoring the junior team members ML Ops skillsets and career development
Benefits
  • comprehensive health benefits and programs
  • medical, vision, dental, life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee discount
  • short term disability
  • long term disability
  • paid sick leave
  • paid national holidays
  • paid vacation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Machine Learningdata pipeliningmodel optimizationdeploymentAPI designPythonPytorchTensorFlowxgboostsklearn
Soft Skills
communication skillsself-drivenresults orientedteam playercollaborationmentoringpresentation skillstrainingproblem-solvingadaptability
Certifications
MS in Computer ScienceMS in Applied MathematicsMS in StatisticsMS in Physics