Algorithms and Sensors Developer, Mill
$175-200k
Office located in San Bruno, California
Food waste recycling subscription company
Open for applications
Food waste recycling subscription company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-200k
Office located in San Bruno, California
201-500 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- An ideal candidate loves seeking out new problems and devising creative solutions, regardless of technology. Ideal candidates are also as excited about working on sustainability as we are!
- 5+ years of experience using Python for scripting, automation, and data analysis
- Ability to develop creative, robust algorithms with experience working with real world sensor data and variation, while balancing product needs, reliability, and development efficiency
- Strong foundation in statistical analysis methods
- Strong collaboration skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- IOT experience a plus, especially working at the intersection of devices, mobile apps, and services on consumer devices
- Familiarity with embedded environments and lab equipment for data acquisition (oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, etc)
- General knowledge of cloud providers (such as AWS or GCP) and related tools and ecosystems, especially around data pipelines and analysis
- Experience with SQL queries and Data Warehouses such as Snowflake or BigQuery
- Familiarity with Computer Vision. Use of AI tools to improve data analysis
What the job involves
- In this role, you will draw on a broad set of technical and problem solving skills to build Mill’s flagship product and service offering. You will have the opportunity to work on every stage of product development, from initial design to implementation to scaling. You will design algorithms to solve novel, physical problems and use controlled testing and data analysis to optimize its performance
- You will help build out best practices and procedures and influence our growing company’s culture and team
- Design and develop algorithms deployed on either a constrained embedded environment or a cloud service (or a mix of both!)
- Design experiments and data pipelines needed to support validation and optimization at scale, and organize and analyze recorded data from controlled and uncontrolled settings and incorporate learnings into algorithms
- Collaborate closely with product design and other engineers to determine feature definition, key requirements, and constraints
- Identify needs for internal automation, tools, and infrastructure and deliver user friendly, reliable solutions
- Advise architecture requirements for data retention, storage, processing, access, and analytics in the product infrastructure
- Design for scalability, performance, and robustness
- Engage effectively with cross functional teams by delivering clear specifications and requirements and tracking execution
- Provide subject matter expertise on sensor selection for use in product of testing applications
- Provide root cause analysis and correction action recommendations based on interpreted and measured sensor data
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
Mill is only available in the US, but since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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