Manager, Applied ML — Search & Ranking (Hybrid IL)

W.W. Grainger, Inc.; Lake Forest (IL); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

W.W. Grainger, Inc. seeks a Manager of Applied Machine Learning in Lake Forest, IL to design scalable ML architectures for search and information retrieval, and to develop NLP-based query understanding and ranking improvements.

You will implement models using clickstream and product data, build feature pipelines with SQL/Python/Spark, and deploy systems with FastAPI/Flask, Docker, and Kubernetes in hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering or related field with 5+ years of related experience.
• Design scalable ML architectures for search, information retrieval, and relevance using Python and ML methods.
• Develop NLP applications for query understanding and search relevance using standard NLP tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable ML architectures for search, information retrieval, and relevance.
• Develop NLP applications for query understanding, classification, and search relevance.
• Build ML models for search ranking using query, clickstream, and product catalog data.

Skills

Python

NLP

SQL

Spark

Deep Learning

Search Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, CS, Engineering or related field

Tools

Apache Solr

FAISS

Transformers

NLTK

FastAPI

Flask

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Spark

Job description

W.W. Grainger, Inc. seeks a Manager of Applied Machine Learning in Lake Forest, IL to design scalable ML architectures for search and information retrieval, and to develop NLP-based query understanding and ranking improvements.

You will implement models using clickstream and product data, build feature pipelines with SQL/Python/Spark, and deploy systems with FastAPI/Flask, Docker, and Kubernetes in hybrid environments.