Crunchbase is the best place to discover innovative companies, connect with the people behind them, and uncover new opportunities. Over 50 million professionals—including entrepreneurs, investors, market researchers, and salespeople—trust Crunchbase to inform their business decisions. We believe diverse thinking fosters the discovery of new solutions and surfaces old problems that need answers. We are democratizing access to opportunities so that people and companies with different perspectives can accelerate innovation for a better future. We are proud to build products that will shape how companies and people connect for the future.

Crunchbase is committed to a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture by hiring for potential, focused on the inclusion of people who have different ways of thinking, different viewpoints, different backgrounds, and different skill sets. We value a transparent and open culture that positively impacts our teams and our products.

Crunchbase has a remote-first approach, and is open to hiring in these locations:

Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle

The Crunchbase personalization team thrives to provide users personalized relevant information throughout their experience on the Crunchbase platform. By combining Crunchbase, private and behavioral data with machine learning systems, we learn to understand our users’ journey, identify and highlight relevant insights and build personalized experiences that are outstanding to our users.

We are hiring a hands-on Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help build the next level of Crunchbase personalized experience. We are looking to go deeper into the data we have, generating and presenting insights that help our users better understand our data and offer observations and recommendations specifically tailored to their use case. The ideal candidate is passionate about not only data and what it can teach us, but also about our users and how to drive an experience that helps them engage with and better utilize our data. 

What You'll Do:

• Help drive the Crunchbase personalization engine and turn our business vision into features.
• Collaborate with the product team and other partners to help improve our personalized user experience.
• Work on all aspects of the feature delivery cycle, from conceptualizing and collecting requirements to working on data modeling and productionizing your code all the way to deployment.
• Work side by side with data scientists to understand the model prototypes.
• Work closely with platform engineers to craft and build systems and tools that can transform our data points into features.
• Contribute to define and improve our machine learning platform capabilities from the ground up.
• Implement prescriptive and predictive models at the production level of quality.

What We're Looking For:

• Strong Python foundation.
• You have a high bar on code quality and enjoy building systems and tools that can be used by others.
• Excellent communicator and able to explain sophisticated issues to partners in simple terms.
• Like to understand the product and deliver meaningful features that drive the business forward.
• Hands-on experience on shipping machine learning-based projects in production and delivering significant impact to customers.
• Dealing with large amounts of data on a regular basis is a plus.
• You care about agile software, cross teams collaborations, and development based on data
• You are a big believer in the Build-Measure-Learn methodology.
• Experience with personalization and recommendation systems is a big plus.

Crunchbase values fostering growth and developing our craft by offering a generous Learning and Development reimbursement policy for all employees to use towards classes, events, conferences, and more. We look for ways to give back to our community by giving 4 days off for volunteering per year. We understand the value of taking time to refresh and offer flexible paid time off. We are working to build a better future for everyone, and offer an annual carbon-offset paid by Crunchbase for all employees. These are just a few examples of our generous benefits package, check out our careers page to find out more.