Machine Learning Engineer, Content and Navigation
Whatnot
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $245,000 - $345,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Lead the design, development, and productionization of ML models to capture intent and content signals that powers personalized navigational experience, search, and recommendations
- Lead ML-based projects from end-to-end: scoping and planning, data collection and feature engineering, model training and deployment, backend implementation, and online experimentation
- Support product initiatives like category and brand recommendations, promote high quality and relevant livestreams and products in feed and search.
- Work closely with teammates and cross-functional partners to implement ML-based solutions into production at scale
- Drive technical excellence and establish ML best practices across the team and org.
Requirements
- 4+ years of generalist software development experience in high growth startups
- 4+ years of industry experience building and deploying ML models to solve user problems at scale.
- Industry experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data.
- Experience in applied statistical and machine learning fields e.g. search, recommendations, content understanding, natural language processing, and large language models.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and common ML frameworks.
- Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to influence roadmap and align cross-functional teams in a remote environment.
- Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
- You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast.
Benefits
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
machine learningmodel trainingmodel deploymentfeature engineeringPythonSQLnatural language processinglarge language modelsstatistical methodsbackend implementation
Soft skills
communicationleadershipinfluencecross-functional collaborationproduct instinctsuser-centric thinkingtechnical excellenceproblem-solvingagilityteamwork