Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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YOUR ROLE & MISSION
 
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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