ML Software Engineer
Curated
Software Engineering, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2023
Curated is on a mission to help people find exactly what they’re looking for
Whether it’s your first snowboard, a brand new baby stroller, or a much needed upgrade to your coffee machine – shopping is hard when the stakes are high. We make it easy by connecting customers with Real Experts who can answer their needs faster.
Curated is the home of America’s biggest community of Real Experts
Real Experts aren’t sales assistants. They’re people living ordinary lives, who also happen to be obsessively passionate about something. They have real, on-the-ground, lived experience — they’re not proficient in tennis, they’re fluent in it.
Making high-stakes purchases easier is only the beginning
Our Real Experts connect with customers in ways that would be unimaginable in any other retail context. They work hard to understand your needs, trade stories, help make plans, and keep in touch.
It’s why customers are obsessed with Curated – and why our Real Experts have a 4.96 average star rating over 85,000+ reviews.
ML Software Engineer
We're looking for a strong ML engineer with 3+ years of professional experience in crafting machine learning systems at scale, ideally within the e-commerce and marketplace arena. A comprehensive understanding of vector space models, word embeddings, transformers, and language models like GPT-3, BERT, and T-5, along with the ability to effectively apply these in various contexts, is crucial. Must have a deep product intuition and use ML models as a means to delight customers and make business impact.
We're docker-friendly, employ a host of open source software and take our code quality very seriously. We move quickly, get to work on interesting and challenging problems, deploy our ML pipelines and backend services daily.
We promote a strong culture where everyone's voice is heard and we encourage everyone to be a product manager. Your contributions will have an immediate impact on the business. Our fast-paced environment requires someone who is humble, willing to learn from others and has an open mind when discussing and proposing new ideas.
Your Qualifications:
- 3 - 5+ years of professional experience in building machine learning systems at scale.
- Experience in building recommender systems, natural language processing, and deep learning, applying the ML models to e-commerce and marketplaces.
- Expertise in implementing NLP tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Sentiment Analysis, Text Classification, etc.
- A solid understanding of vector space models, word embeddings, and transformers, and the ability to apply them effectively in different contexts.
- Familiar with Language models, transformers like GPT-3, BERT, T-5 etc.
- Expertise in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Experience in developing ML applications on AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Strong coding skills in Python and SQL. Passionate about digging deep into data and coming up with insights.
- Experience with MLOps tools and frameworks such as Jupyter Notebook, Kubernetes, AutoML, Kubeflow, Spark, etc.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies, frameworks, and algorithms.
Bonus points:
- Experience setting up and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building backend applications using Java and other similar technologies.
- Experience with developing chatbots.
While these qualifications are typical of a strong candidate, they are not exhaustive and not required unless noted. We take a holistic approach to hiring and would love to connect if this sounds interesting to you!
About Curated
Curated was founded in 2017 to humanize online shopping. Backed by Forerunner, Greylock, and CapitalG, we’ve built a collaborative shopping experience brought to life by passionate experts. Every shopper on Curated gets one-on-one personalized advice to find the perfect product, so they can enjoy more of what they love.
Through our expert community, Curated has created a new type of knowledge economy that enables people to earn meaningful income by sharing their expertise, from anywhere.
Curated is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply, as we strive to build a marketplace that serves every demographic with the highest level of quality and respect.
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