Senior Machine Learning Engineer, SpotHero
Off-street parking marketplace
Job no longer available
Off-street parking marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify finding and booking off-street parking for stress-free travel experiences.
Role
Who you are
- You are comfortable working with stakeholders across the business and excel at defining and honing requirements
- You have success metrics at the forefront of your mind. You’re no stranger to production-level monitoring and can quickly determine when something is off course. You envision what a successful end state should look like before you even begin
- You are comfortable presenting results to executives and non-technical stakeholders and you embrace taking a stance and making recommendations
- You are autonomous and able to work independently but know when to ask questions. First and foremost, you seek clarity and understanding
- You prioritize practical solutions that deliver business value over flashy trends
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field with 6+ years of professional experience in data science/machine learning
- Must have experience with AWS services (lambda, s3, sagemaker, redshift, cloudwatch) or equivalent experience in GCP
- Must be able to write effective SQL queries
- Must have Python experience writing production-level code, testing, CI/CD, and docker (bonus: kubernetes)
- Proven track record of designing, delivering, and productionalizing AI-driven business solutions and products
- Experience using Airflow (or similar technologies) to develop data pipelines
What the job involves
- SpotHero is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Data Science squad. This squad interacts with data consumers such as Data Engineering, Marketing, Engineering and Business Analytics to provide data solutions that meet their day-to-day needs and long term vision
- As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll apply machine learning to solve classification, regression, computer vision, and natural language problems.
- You’ll rely on your engineering background to implement production-ready code and pipelines and build out infrastructure that supports fast, safe, and scalable model development and deployment
- Being among the inaugural team members, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape the team's development ethos and devise architectural solutions that foster agility and swift iteration. You’ll be solving some of the most interesting problems in the business!
- Deliver AI-powered products and features that create a frictionless experience for our customers and internal stakeholders
- Conduct thorough exploratory data analysis to glean insights that inform the development of robust models
- Create the foundation of ML model building through all phases of development including robust production deployment. Be rigorous in design and create modularity and microservices when applicable
- Be a thought leader and challenge conventional ways of thinking throughout the business to understand and identify pain points and improve the status quo through data-driven solutions
- Obsess over the customer journey and at what points data can make an impact to create a better user experience
Our take
Finding a parking spot is an ever-increasing challenge, that is being solved by SpotHero, a platform which helps people find and book off-road parking across Canada and the US.
SpotHero is evolving with current trends by offering car-sharing and commercial fleet options, alongside partnering with Android Auto to increase its reservations and joining up with the navigation app Waze. It offers services to corporations too, and brings standardisation to the otherwise fragmented and often confusing parking industry.
As the only independent off-street parking marketplace in North America, SpotHero has established a robust infrastructure and is expanding its services and coverage. Part of this is in its recent partnership with Google, to integrate marketing reservations into Google Maps. This, along with its existing partnerships with platforms like Apple Maps, puts SpotHero in an exciting spot going forward.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$2.5m
LATE VC
Aug 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $120.1m
Company benefits
- Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast-growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for growth
- Flexible PTO policy and great work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member
- Annual parking stipend – we help people park!
- The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere
- Up to 95% of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, company-sponsored Life Insurance, 401K, and generous parental leave 🇺🇸
- Medical (prescription drug and paramedical coverage), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD, and LTD 🇨🇦
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Mark Lawrence
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied Finance and Spanish at Bradley University, they spent 2 years as a Financial Analyst at Bank of America, before leaving in July 2010. That October, they founded SpotHero as CEO.
Larry Kiss
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect Officer)Having started their career at Advanced Micro Devices, they then worked at Motorola for 3 years and also as a Freelance Developer. They co-founded SpotHero with Mark, before co-founding iNotary in March 2011, where they worked as CTO for a year.
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