Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Narvar; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance its platform with machine learning solutions. This role involves designing and deploying algorithms that impact millions of users across various sectors including e-commerce and logistics. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in machine learning, data engineering, and software development, with a strong emphasis on producing high-quality code. Join a dynamic team that values diversity and fosters a culture of innovation, where your contributions will significantly shape the future of customer experiences. If you're passionate about leveraging data for meaningful impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience shipping models to production in various problem spaces.
• Strong understanding of probability, statistics, and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy machine learning algorithms for e-commerce and consumer trends.
• Work with large unstructured data and provide thought leadership.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Pandas

NumPy

Data Engineering

SQL

NoSQL

Linux

Education

MS in Computer Science

MS in Statistics

MS in Engineering

Tools

Spark

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Narvar is growing! We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build new products and improve all aspects of the Narvar platform. Data is at the core of our competitive advantage so the work you do has a large impact across the company, our business partners, and the lives of our end users.

Machine Learning Engineers at Narvar work across the stack. We are ‘full-stack’ ML Engineers. This means that we write production-level code and own machine learning operations for our teams.

Day-to-day

• Design and deploy machine learning algorithms for use cases spanning e-commerce, consumer trends, markets, logistics, and new products
• Work on real-world consumer data for natural language processing, image classification, time series analysis, outlier detection, user modeling, etc
• Work with large unstructured data
• Be at the intersection of mathematics, machine learning, business, and computer science and impact millions of users through your work
• Multiply the effect of your data science and data team members by building frameworks, tools, and methodologies that the entire team use
• Provide thought leadership to a team through high quality write-ups, reviews, and a strong vision grounded in practical experience and a wider industry view

What we’re looking for

• Strong machine learning skills.
• Fluency in Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Pandas, numpy, and machine learning packages
• Data Engineering skills and large data experience. You should have dealt with large amounts of data (TB) in a production setting, built world class data pipelines using cutting edge tools (e.g. Spark).
• 10+ years of hands-on experience shipping models to production, working on a variety of problem spaces (eg: user modeling, spam classification, prediction, clustering etc)
• MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Science (physical or social), Engineering or similar quantitative and computation field plus 5+ years of industry experience
• Strong software engineering and coding skills with the ability to write production quality code
• Strong understanding of probability & statistics, machine learning, and algorithms
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working with Linux, shell scripting
• Previous startup experience strongly preferred

Bonus Points

• Experience implementing applications on Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with deep generative models or graph learning a plus.
• Tag your application with your solution to an active / recently concluded Kaggle competition, to get ahead of the list :)
• Experience leading a team of data and data scientists; Strong ability to multiply the effect of the team and the team members; excellent written communication; self-starter that can balance sophistication with practicality

Why Narvar?

We're on a mission to simplify the everyday lives of consumers. Post-purchase is a critical phase of the customer journey. That's why we created Narvar - a platform focused on driving customer loyalty through seamless post-purchase experiences that allow retailers to retain, engage, and delight customers. If you've ever bought something online, there's a good chance you've used our platform!

From the hottest new direct-to-consumer companies to retail’s most renowned brands, Narvar works with GameStop, Neiman Marcus, Sonos, Nike, and 1300+ other brands. With hubs in San Francisco, Atlanta, London, and Bangalore, we've served over 125 million consumers worldwide across 10+ billion interactions, 38 countries, and 55 languages.

Pioneering the post-purchase movement means navigating into the unknown. Our team thrives on this sense of adventure while nurturing a mindset of innovation. We're a home for big hearts and we leave our egos at the door. We work hard but we always make time to celebrate professional wins, baby showers, birthday parties, and everything in between.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.