Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer, Faire

• We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours
• You want to use machine learning to help local retailers and independent brands succeed
• You want to be a foundational team member of a fast growing company
• You like to solve challenging problems related to a two-sided marketplace
• 4 years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems
• Experience and strong understanding of search / personalization / ads for product development
• Strong programming skills
• An excitement and willingness to learn new tools and techniques
• Experience with deep learning
• The ability to contribute to team strategy and to lead model development without supervision
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with others in a closely collaborative team environment

Desirable

• Faire is using machine learning to change wholesale and help local retailers compete with Amazon and big box stores. Our experienced data scientists and machine learning engineers are developing solutions related to discovery, ranking, search, recommendations, ads, logistics, underwriting, and more - all with the goal of helping local retail thrive
• As a member of the Discovery Data team you’ll be responsible for one of the following areas:
• Search: Optimizing search through query understanding, retrieval, ranking, post-ranking and whole-page optimization with state-of-art technologies including embeddings, graph learning, deep learning and large language models (LLMs)
• Personalization: Personalizing recommendation surfaces through embeddings, near-real-time / streaming signals, explore-exploit, and diversification
• Ads / Sponsored Products: Joining a newly established team building Ads Delivery and Advertiser Optimization from the ground up and tackling challenges in ads targeting, retrieval, prediction/ranking, bidding, pacing, and auction design
• Our team already includes experienced Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers from Uber, Airbnb, Square, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest. We're a lean, talented team with high opportunity for direct product impact and ownership
• You’ll be able to work on cutting-edge search / personalization / ads problems combining a wide variety of data about our retailers, brands and products

• Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date