Senior ML Engineer: Optimization & Production Pipelines

NLP PEOPLE; Ireland; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Pension scheme

Remote working stipend

Job summary

Yelp seeks an entrepreneurial, self-driven machine learning scientist located in the Republic of Ireland to invent the future of optimization. You will work on ML techniques, from embeddings to ensemble models, within scalable Python services and collaborate with ML engineers to impact users and businesses.

Contribute to experiments, causal/predictive modeling, and communication of results to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience with data analysis/statistical software and packages (pandas/statsmodels/sklearn within Python, R, etc.)
• Experience with predictive modeling/machine learning, forecasting, or causal inference
• Comfortable working in a Unix environment
• Sufficient software engineering skills to effectively work with software engineers
• A demonstrated capability for original research, the curiosity to uncover promising solutions to new problems, and the persistence to carry your ideas through to an end goal
• The motivation to develop deep product and business knowledge and to connect abstract modeling and analysis tasks with business value

Responsibilities

• Identify and own challenging problems, form testable hypotheses, and drive significant business impact
• Lead the design and analysis of experiments or development of causal and predictive models to test your ideas
• Collaborate with product and engineering to affect changes in production systems and provide intelligence to other teams and communicate your conclusions to technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Keep the team and our projects current on new developments in ML and statistics by reading papers and attending conferences and local events
• Productionize and automate model pipelines within Python services

Skills

Pandas

Statistics

Scikit-learn

Python

Unix

Experiment design

Tools

Unix

Jupyter

Job description

Yelp seeks an entrepreneurial, self-driven machine learning scientist located in the Republic of Ireland to invent the future of optimization. You will work on ML techniques, from embeddings to ensemble models, within scalable Python services and collaborate with ML engineers to impact users and businesses.

Contribute to experiments, causal/predictive modeling, and communication of results to both technical and non-technical audiences.