ML Engineer II — Ads & Search Optimization

Etsy; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Etsy is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join the Search Ads team in Dublin. We build user-centric ML systems for a two-sided marketplace with 90+ million buyers and 6+ million sellers, focusing on retrieval, ranking, and ad allocation.

You will prototype and productionize large-scale ML models, run A/B tests, and collaborate with product managers, ML engineers, and analytics partners to improve ads performance while shaping the future of Etsy ads.

Qualifications

• You have a track record of applying statistical and machine learning techniques in addressing real-world problems.
• You are an expert in one of the following fields: natural language processing, information retrieval, search and/or recommendations, deep learning.
• You have experience training, deploying, monitoring, debugging and iterating on production machine learning systems in search, recommendation, and/or ads systems.
• You can successfully create requirements and lead your team from design through to delivery.
• You write understandable, testable code and you have an eye towards maintainability.
• You care about the implications of your work on end users.

Responsibilities

• Work cross functionally with product engineering teams and communicate your ideas and model capabilities to product managers
• Apply the latest advances in machine learning to improve the relevance and increase buyer ad engagement
• Prototype, optimize, and productionize large-scale ML models to improve our ads funnel
• Conduct A/B experiments to validate the efficiency of ML models and pipelines
• Work closely with product managers, ML engineers, and analytics partners to measure and improve our ads product
• This role may encompass other tasks beyond the listed responsibilities.

Skills

Natural language processing

Information retrieval

Search and/or recommendations

Deep learning

Production ML systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Code maintainability

Job description

Etsy is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join the Search Ads team in Dublin. We build user-centric ML systems for a two-sided marketplace with 90+ million buyers and 6+ million sellers, focusing on retrieval, ranking, and ad allocation.

You will prototype and productionize large-scale ML models, run A/B tests, and collaborate with product managers, ML engineers, and analytics partners to improve ads performance while shaping the future of Etsy ads.