Staff Machine Learning Scientist
About the job
• 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 to deeply understand the problem area
• Research and identify the right algorithms and tools, balancing pragmatism and cutting-edge innovation
• 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 algorithms and rapidly get prototypes into customers' hands
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 (bonus)
- PhD or other experience in a research environment (bonus)
- Deep experience in applicable ML areas e.g. NLP, Deep learning, Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, clustering (bonus)
- Strong stats or math background (bonus)
- Visualization and data skills, SQL, matplotlib, etc. (bonus)
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Hard Skills
- machine learning
- data analysis
- algorithm research
- prototyping
- NLP
- deep learning
- Bayesian methods
- reinforcement learning
- clustering
- SQL
Soft Skills
- mentoring
- career development
- communication
- scientific thinking
- leadership
- collaboration
- problem-solving
- adaptability
- performance improvement
- operational excellence
Certifications & Qualifications
- MSc in Machine Learning
- PhD in related field
