Senior Machine Learning Engineer

This Senior Machine Learning Engineer position is a high-impact role. We are looking for an experienced machine learning practitioner with high-standards to help scale and expand high-value business initiatives.

You will be joining a top-tier team that understands the real-world business opportunity that machine learning enables and how it can transform businesses. We iterate with A/B testing to fail fast and learn quickly. The result is real, measurable revenue and profit impact.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology with a clear, solid background in computer science. If you have a proven ability to learn, explore, and quickly turn the latest technologies into value, then you are the perfect candidate.

Our team of experienced engineers has deep industry experience in search/information retrieval. The team is highly collaborative while also being self-sufficient enough to turn any idea into a business win. As a high impact teammate, you will help with everything from data ETLs to modeling to model serving to test reporting. This unique opportunity will expose you to deep insights into the technology and the business. On a day-to-day basis, expect roughly 20% of your time to be on the serving/inference layer, 20% data science modeling, and the rest will be around data cleaning, ETL, and analytics.

What we are looking for in a highly qualified candidate:

• Big Data processing – Apache Spark is the key to our data pipelines that create our insights. Understanding SQL is a must in this environment. For maximum performance, we utilize Scala.
• Search technologies – our Lucene/Solr inverse index powers billions of our queries every month.
• High-performance web services – our non-blocking microservices scale with Java technologies while providing sub-millisecond response times.
• Machine learning – our latest wins have come from deep learning (TensorFlow, Keras). Python is the preferred language here.
• Most importantly, the highly qualified candidate has the initiative and ability to quickly learn and apply the above.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• You Must have a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from a top-ranking university.
• Three (3) to seven (7) years of computer programming work experience with proven, high-value results.
• One (1) years of data science, machine learning, or data engineering work experience.
• Must reside in the greater Austin metro area or be willing to relocate to the Austin area (Relocation Reimbursement will be offered.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Company-paid gym membership
• Comprehensive, company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents
• 401(k) retirement plan with 3% employer contribution
• Paid company holidays & Unlimited PTO
• Awesome company events