As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Intelligence team, you will be responsible for building and productionizing machine learning (ML) models and other smart algorithms for various Apollo products. These products may include Search, Recommendations, Conversations or similar. The mission of the Intelligence team is to leverage Apollo’s massive scale data to understand and predict Apollo users’ behaviors and optimize their experience at all stages of their product journey.
DAILY ADVENTURES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build, evaluate, deploy and iterate on scalable Machine Learning systems
Understand the Machine Learning stack at Apollo and continuously improve it
Build systems that help Apollo personalize their users’ experience
Evaluate the performance of machine learning systems against business objectives
Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines that power our algorithms
Implement automated monitoring, alerting, self-healing (restartable/graceful failures) features while productionizing data & ML workflows
Write unit/integration tests and contribute to engineering wiki
COMPETENCIES
Documentation first approach; loves to scale up by writing things down to share knowledge asynchronously
Excellent communication skills; be able to work with stakeholders to develop and define key business questions and build data sets that answer those questions.
Excellent ambiguity resolution skills; be able to break down ambiguous problems into simpler milestones and delegate to junior engineers
Self-motivated and self-directed
Inquisitive, able to ask questions and dig deeper
Organized, diligent, and great attention to detail
Acts with the utmost integrity
Genuinely curious and open; loves learning
Critical thinking and proven problem-solving skills required
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
Bachelors, Masters, or a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other quantitative fields or related work experience
4+ years of experience building Machine Learning or AI systems
Experience deploying and managing machine learning models in the cloud
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven software engineering skills in production environment, primarily using Python
Experience with Machine Learning software tools and libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.)
Preferred:
PhD in Computer Science or related field with a focus on machine learning
Experience with Databricks, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, mlflow, and Airflow
Experience with one or more of the following: natural language processing, deep learning, recommendation systems, search relevance & ranking, and speech-to-text conversion.
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