Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Bolt

Generative AI Applications

$230-280k

Plus equity

SQL
AWS
GCP
Python
Kafka
Linux
Tensorflow
Azure
Spark
PyTorch
Kinesis
BigQuery
Semantic
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Bolt

One-click checkout solution for online payments

Open for applications

Bolt

One-click checkout solution for online payments

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CB2BPaymentseCommerce

Open for applications

$230-280k

Plus equity

SQL
AWS
GCP
Python
Kafka
Linux
Tensorflow
Azure
Spark
PyTorch
Kinesis
BigQuery
Semantic
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CB2BPaymentseCommerce

Company mission

To democratize commerce by setting a new standard for buying and selling online.

Role

Who you are

  • This should be someone with experience, creativity, and passion for producing world-class technology
  • Minimum of seven years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience, along with minimum of five years’ software development experience with Python and SQL
  • Minimum of three years’ experience using PyTorch, Tensorflow, building pipelines to deploy NLP and deep learning models into production in a cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) environment
  • Experience building advanced workflows such as retrieval augmented generation, model chaining, dynamic prompting, PEFT/SFT, etc. using LangChain and similar tools
  • Experience in establishing model guardrails and developing bias detection and mitigation techniques for AI applications using tools such as NeMo
  • Experience with various embedding models and setting up and tuning vector databases to improve performance of semantic search and retrieval systems
  • Understand the underlying fundamentals such as Transformers, Self-Attention mechanisms that form the theoretical foundation of LLMs
  • Expertise in standard software engineering methodology, e.g., unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, code reviews, design documentation

Desirable

  • Retail and/or Martech experience in building large-scale personalization and recommendation systems in a consumer-based setting
  • Experience with big data tools like Spark, Kafka, BigQuery, Dataflow, Apache Beam, Pubsub, Cloud Functions, EMR, S3, Glue, Kinesis Firehose, Lambda; a Linux environment

What the job involves

  • The Data Platform team works closely with all teams and cross-functional partners (including Product, Engineering, and Data Analysts) to build a foundational data stack powering business analytics
  • We are looking for someone to play a mission-critical role in designing and building the machine models for risk, fraud, recommendation, and personalization that powers Bolt
  • Companies and consumers alike will rely heavily on what you build, and you’ll have a ton of trust and responsibility
  • Architect, build, maintain, and improve new and existing suite of GenAI applications and their underlying systems
  • Automate machine learning pipelines, monitor performance and costs, and optimize models by using techniques such as LoRA/QLoRA
  • Establish reusable frameworks to streamline model building, deployment and monitoring, incorporating comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting mechanisms
  • Build guardrails, compliance rules and oversight workflows into the GenAI application platform, such as establishing approval chains for model updates and staged rollout for production releases
  • Ensure development of user-facing applications in the GenAI application platform is easy and safe by enforcing rigorous validation testing before publishing user-generated models and implement a clear peer review process of applications
  • Mentor and educate team members to adopt best practices in writing and maintaining production machine learning code
  • Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure proper tracking of algorithmic performance KPIs and prioritize performance improvements based on effort and impact

Our take

Designed to replace existing checkout models and make buying on any device easy and safe, Bolt provides a one-click checkout solution. Its online shopping software is utilized by companies like Brooks Brothers and Forever 21. As well as supporting all major card providers and alternative payment methods like PayPal, customers also don't need a username or password. This reduces cart abandonment and increases merchant conversion rates.

The company has seen impressive growth, annually processing more than $1 billion in retail transactions across its 300+ retailers. While Bolt has won the race against Google, who tried, and failed with Google Checkout, there are other 'one-click' competitors to watch out for, including Square, who has over 30 million monthly active users.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-15% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jan 2022

$355m

SERIES E

Oct 2021

$60m

SERIES C

Total funding: $963m

Company benefits

  • Four-Day Workweek, flexible working hours, & unlimited PTO time to promote a healthy work-life balance
  • 100% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
  • Remote First location policy to allow team members to live where they choose
  • Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
  • Early Exercise program to help Bolters maximize the value of their equity
  • 401K program to help you invest in your future
  • Learning & Development stipend to grow your skills
  • Paid parental leave to support you and your family
  • 11 paid company holidays per year, 5 additional floating holidays, & your birthday off

Company values

  • Win-Win Partnerships - Bolt thinks critically about culture. 
They’re not just a list of values on the wall, they’re instilled into our everyday practices. We create an environment where the best ideas win, not the loudest voices in the room
  • Writing > Talking - We value writing over talking, it promotes systematic thought and reasoned arguments; creates a results-oriented mindset, removes the influence of the loudest voices in the room, and fosters collaboration across the organization
  • Live Curiously - We believe a learning and growth mindset is how we evolve and grow as a business and as individuals. At its core, a growth mindset requires curiosity, humility, and openness to giving and receiving feedback from everyone we work with
  • Founder Mentality - We embrace the founder mentality — that means approaching every problem as if we owned the company (because we do), having a bias for action, and doing everything possible to achieve our goals
  • United + Unique - Our team is united by many shared values (hunger to solve hard problems, passion for our mission, thoughtfulness, etc). But we also value the strength that comes when we acknowledge, respect, and embrace our unique histories, skills, and experiences. And, we firmly believe that we win when we are united in our differences
  • Be 20% Wrong, Chase 10X - We move fast, take risks, and chase big outcomes wherever possible. We act fearlessly, take action without waiting for consensus, experiment, fail (and learn from it) and try again

Company HQ

Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ryan Breslow

(Chairman)

They studied Computer Science at Stanford before working as a Stanford-StartX Coach for 4 years and founding Bolt in 2015. Stepped down as CEO to assume the role of Chairman. They found the company Love in Jan 2022.

Maju Kuruvilla

(CEO, not founder)

Extensive history in software engineering. Former VP of Amazon. Took on the role of CPTO at Bolt before subsequently going on to become the company CEO.

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