Staff Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer, Faire

• Experience with leading cross-team and cross-functional technical strategy and roadmap, solving long-term open-ended problems, and consistently driving significant business impact for the whole org
• 5+ 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
• 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

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