Senior Machine Learning Scientist, CookUnity
Recommendation and Search Systems
$150-200k
+Equity
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Open for applications
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+Equity
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred
- 5+ years of industry experience in building and deploying recommendation and search systems at scale
- Strong background in machine learning with experience and expertise in personalized machine learning algorithms, especially recommender and search systems
- Practical real-world experience with building scalable recommendations and search
- Knowledge of generative artificial intelligence applied to recommendation and search
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement effective machine learning systems
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Kotlin or similar language
- Hands-on experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, or similar
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and MLOps best practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and a clear understanding of algorithmic design
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience in the food technology sector is a plus
- Experience working with Generative AI and its applications in personalization or search
- Contributions to research or publications in areas such as graph-based modeling, recommendation systems, customer retention (e.g., churn prediction), or lifetime value estimation
- Experience with Graph AI algorithms and network discovery techniques, including analyzing complex relationships and patterns within data networks
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Machine Learning Scientist specializing in Recommendation and Search Systems to drive innovation and enhance our search and recommendation models
- In this role, you will work on cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, develop scalable search and recommendation architectures, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver personalized and relevant experiences to our users
- Architect, design, develop, and deploy the Machine Learning models that will serve real-time recommendations or search
- Research and implement state-of-the-art machine learning techniques such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and collaborative filtering for recommendations and search ranking
- Be a leader in the Machine Learning community within CookUnity and work collaboratively across engineering and product teams
- Develop search ranking algorithms, query understanding, and relevance models to improve search experience
- Hands-on expertise with implementing end-to-end production ML systems at scale
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and data science teams to integrate models into production environments
- Act as an ambassador for AI within the organization, advocating for its adoption and showcasing its potential impact
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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