Staff ML Data Scientist, CookUnity
$190-200k
Salary in US currency, may vary in different locations
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Open for applications
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-200k
Salary in US currency, may vary in different locations
201-500 employees
Company mission
CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years in data science, machine learning, or applied statistics
- Deep experience building recommendation engines, personalization pipelines, ranking/relevance models, search optimization, or embedding-based features
- Hands-on familiarity with A/B testing frameworks, and skills in experimentation design, causal inference, and measuring incremental impact
- Strong programming chops in Python and SQL (with bonuses for experience in Snowflake, PyTorch, Airflow, MLFlow, ECS)
- A proven ability to work across disciplines and guide stakeholders—while also owning the technical end-to-end performance of your models
- Bonus if you’ve worked in marketplaces, subscription services, food-tech, or adjacent domains
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced ML-focused Data Scientist to design, build, and productionize personalization and recommendation systems that help every CookUnity customer discover meals they’ll love
- You’ll develop user modeling and ranking algorithms, ensure they integrate seamlessly into production, and lead experimentation strategies to measure their real-world impact
- This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who can blend strong machine learning expertise with strategic thinking, rigorous experimentation, and close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Business stakeholders
- Architect and deliver production-grade recommendation and personalization systems, from user modeling to ranking algorithms and embeddings
- Quantify and optimize business impact through A/B testing, experimentation design, causal inference, and lift analyses
- Translate product and business needs into effective, data-driven solutions that scale
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed experimentation and feedback loops into our workflows
- Mentor and coach the data team on best practices in ML model validation, experimentation, and scalability
Application process
- If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you
- Thank you for your time!
Our take
CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.
The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.
While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.
With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.
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Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
- 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
- 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- 🥙 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
- 🧘🏽♀️ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
- 👩🏾🏫 Personalized Spanish coach
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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