Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Sona

• You enjoy taking ownership of the product and outcome end-to-end. Machine learning at Sona is a success if we have happy clients running successful businesses as well as the models which are best in industry
• You’re experienced in and excited by taking a future machine learning project from business idea to deployed machine learning system
• You have a focus on solving the problem and when given the choice between “complicated and shiny” vs “get something simple in front of a user”, you choose the latter
• You’re excited by working with our industry experts to really understand what’s happening in our client’s businesses and the realities of working there
• You see beyond the data to the world that resulted in this data generating process, the issues that come with this and the opportunity that it gives us
• You’re happy wearing the many data hats of a startup. You’ll be working with APIs to generate the datasets, doing the data engineering to make them available offline and live, the offline model selection, the live model deployment, monitoring
• You’re keen to both teach and learn. Explaining your approach to people across the business of varying technical expertise, bringing your deep technical knowledge to offer solutions. At the same time learning from the wealth of expertise in the business to deepen and broaden your skills
• Extensive industry ML experience, with a track record of deploying ML systems to production, validating and evaluating them
• Strong programming skills in Python, including the ML/scientific python stack (e.g. numpy, scikit-learn)
• Strong theoretical understanding of machine learning and how to integrate that machine learning theory with practical decisions
• Data analysis and technical communication skills. The ability to visualise, communicate and demonstrate your results. (e.g. SQL, pandas, plotting, notebooks)

Desirable

• It’s a hugely exciting time to be joining the team as we’re still small enough that you’ll have a significant impact on the company’s growth trajectory and culture, yet large enough to have a great structure, experienced leaders and world-class benefits in place
• As our new Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll join a small AI/ML team and spearhead the next step of development of Sona’s best-in-industry forecasting models, creating huge impact for our customers
• Our forecasting models enter into a complex environment with key machine and human decisions being made on their predictions; facing feedback loops and a highly variable environment
• You’ll start by solving a well defined forecasting problem, and demonstrating Sona as best in class, then move on to developing green field areas for machine learning and algorithms across the business