Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Firework

$150-180k

Python

C++

CUDA

Mid, Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

Video-based eCommerce platform

Job no longer available

Video-based eCommerce platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2CRetailB2BEnterpriseMarketplaceMarketingContentVideoeCommerce

Job no longer available

$150-180k

Python

C++

CUDA

Mid, Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

201-500 employees

FintechB2CRetailB2BEnterpriseMarketplaceMarketingContentVideoeCommerce

Company mission

To revolutionize commerce by bringing the power of video to every digital experience, fostering deeper human connections between brands and shoppers.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related STEM field
Master’s or PhD’s degree in computer science or related field is a huge plus
3+ years of experience in a role work closely with machine learning model inferencing and training on GPU
3 + years of experience with building production grade AI applications
Knowledge of Python, C/C++, CUDA and extensive experience profiling GPU performance and distributed training runs
Experience with lower level multimedia processing and optimizations is a huge plus
Publication and research experience in GenAI is a huge plus
Strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams
Demonstrated ability to operate in a highly innovative and fast-paced workspace and able to make decisions within a dynamic and ever-changing environment
A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

What the job involves

This role will develop real-time predictive models using machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to analyze and identify key insights and patterns that influence strategic decision making, including optimizing our content recommendation system
Build production applications with latest text, image, and video based Generative AI technologies
Optimize state of the art AI models for media generation
Fine tuning LLM models with proprietary knowledge base
Build tooling to improve the efficiency and reliability of distributed training

Our take

Live-streamed shopping has long been popular in China. In 2020, the first 30 minutes of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day presale's campaign on Taobao Live generated an impressive $7.5B in total transaction value. Firework is helping to bring these kinds of video-based eCommerce experiences to a Western audience with a smart commercial strategy.

Originally launched as a standalone social platform featuring swipe-able web stories, Firework made a strategic shift towards a more streamlined B2B model. It now provides services to partners by granting them access to its video technology infrastructure, enabling them to effortlessly launch diverse and interactive shippable videos on their respective websites. The outcome of this pivot has paid off, with Firework emerging as the leading global platform of its kind.

The real money in shoppable videos is ultimately live-streamed experiences, which are still not landing for American audiences. Despite this, Firework’s more complete offering, including the ability to directly collect consumer data and learn about a shopper’s behaviour, means that American brands are giving the startup business ahead of this anticipated cultural shift.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

13% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

May 2022

$150m

SERIES B

Mar 2021

$55m

SERIES A

Total funding: $270.3m

Company HQ

Downtown, San Mateo, CA

Leadership

Vincent Yang

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously founded EverString which was acquired by ZoomInfo. Before that, worked as an Investment Manager at Summit Partners and before that as an Analyst in J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking team.

Jerry Luk

(Co-Founder & COO)

Previously co-founded Presdo where they served as CTO. He also spent nearly 4 years at Edmodo as the Head o f Business Strategy, Mobile and was the creator of LinkedIn Mobile.

Rick Zhuang

(CTO)

Prior to joining Firework in 2020, Rick was the Head of Engineering at Tmall New Retail at Alibaba Group. He was also the Director of Engineering at Tencent and a Tech Lead/Senior Relevance Scientist at Yahoo!

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 2 more jobs at Firework