Senior Machine Learning Scientist
About the job
• Identify areas where ML can create value for our customers
• Identify the right ML framing of product problems
• Work 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
• Be pragmatic, but innovate 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
• Move prototypes to beta and measure real customer impact
Requirements
- Broad applied machine learning knowledge
- 3-5 years applied ML experience
- Practical stats knowledge (experiment design, dealing with confounding etc)
- Intermediate programming skills
- 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.
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Hard Skills
- machine learning
- applied ML
- statistical knowledge
- programming
- NLP
- deep learning
- Bayesian methods
- reinforcement learning
- clustering
- data visualization
Soft Skills
- communication
- scientific thinking
- comfort with ambiguity
- collaboration
- problem-solving
- innovation
- pragmatism
- iteration
- research skills
- customer impact measurement
Certifications & Qualifications
- MSc in ML or related field
- PhD in ML or related field
