Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Etsy
Risk
$183-216k
Eligible for an equity package and an annual performance bonus
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$183-216k
Eligible for an equity package and an annual performance bonus
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Ph.D. degree in a quantitative field (e.g., computer science, industrial engineering, applied math, statistics) and 2+ years of industry experience on ML applications, or a M.S. degree in related fields and 5+ years of industry experience on ML applications
- You have focused experience building large scale data infrastructure, especially for graph data processing and storage
- You have experience deploying, debugging, and fine-tuning machine learning models in large-scale production systems in public clouds, with experience in Infrastructure as Code
- You are comfortable with using GIT, Linux environments, dockers, and other tools for writing robust, production-ready code
- Experience building ML models in the fraud/risk management space is a plus
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience is a plus
What the job involves
- Etsy is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Risk to join the Risk Engineering organization
- Our team keeps Etsy a safe and trusted marketplace by building advanced and scalable ML technologies to detect and prevent risk and fraud
- We are looking for passionate individuals that are committed to applying Machine Learning to deliver customer impact
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Risk ML
- As a member of the product team, this role is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with experienced ML professionals on large-scale projects protecting millions of users
- Example Projects:
- Build large-scale graphs of users/listings/transactions, and develop and deploy state-of-the-art graph models for risk/fraud mitigation
- Build unsupervised/semi-supervised anomaly detection models to identify emerging patterns with high precision
- Implement and compare supervised learning models (GBDT and DNNs), or ensembles of models, to improve key metrics, often with multiple competing objectives
- What does the day-to-day look like?
- Solve customer and business problems (protecting against seller fraud, transactional fraud, account takeover, fake accounts, etc.) using machine learning techniques like deep neural networks, graph ML, and anomaly detection
- Take ideas and scale them to millions to users. Develop and implement end-to-end plans, including idea generation, project planning, model development, production model serving, and ownership of model performance
- Architect new and improve on existing ML systems, including building data architectures, enabling faster and more robust model development, and improving model serving and orchestration
- Conduct A/B experiments to validate the efficiency of ML models and pipelines
- Collaborate with team members and cross-team partners for problem identification, technical design/delivery, and product operationalization
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. The recent hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers has created significant discontent amongst sellers. Etsy must reconcile these issues to ensure artists continue to operate on the same scale within the platform. It plans to attract shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
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