Applied Scientist, Etsy
Risk
$153-199k
+ An equity package and an annual performance bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153-199k
+ An equity package and an annual performance bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for passionate individuals that are committed to applying Machine Learning to deliver customer impact
- You have a Ph.D. degree in a quantitative field (e.g., computer science, industrial engineering, applied math, statistics) with machine learning research experience on risk/fraud applications, or a M.S. degree in related fields and 3+ years of industry experience in risk/fraud applications
- You have published at peer-reviewed conferences, such as ICML, KDD, SIGIR, WSDM, etc. or you have given talks/tutorials in the industrial conferences like Spark Summit
- You may have experience deploying, debugging, and improving machine learning models in large-scale production systems in public clouds (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure), with experience in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- You have experience or interest in building production risk/fraud detection systems, or general e-commerce systems
What the job involves
- Etsy is hiring an Applied Scientist II, Risk to join the Risk Engineering organization
- Our team keeps Etsy a safe and trusted marketplace by building advanced and scalable ML technologies to detect and prevent risk and fraud
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Risk ML
- For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States
- Build large-scale graphs of users/listings/transactions, and develop and deploy state-of-the-art graph models for risk/fraud mitigation
- Build unsupervised/semi-supervised anomaly detection models to identify emerging patterns with high precision
- Implement and compare supervised learning models (GBDT and DNNs), or ensembles of models, to improve key metrics, often with multiple competing objectives
- Prototype, optimize, and productionize large-scale ML models that help deliver key results
- Conduct A/B experiments to validate the efficiency of ML models and pipelines
- Collaborate closely with product managers, ML engineers, full-stack engineers, and designers on a product team to protect ~100 million users
- Push the state of the art and apply the latest advances in deep learning and other machine learning techniques to improve trust and safety on Etsy
- Share impactful and innovative work in the wider ML research community, including presenting at top-tier ML/DS conferences such as: KDD, WSDM, WWW, Recsys, etc
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. The recent hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers has created significant discontent amongst sellers. Etsy must reconcile these issues to ensure artists continue to operate on the same scale within the platform. It plans to attract shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company values
- We commit to our craft - Our work has the power to change lives. That’s why we strive to learn continuously and excel at what we do
- We minimize waste - Time, resources, and energy are precious, so we focus only on what will have the greatest impact
- We embrace differences - Diverse teams are stronger, and inclusive cultures are more resilient. When we seek out different perspectives, we make better decisions and build better products
- We dig deeper - The best solutions to meaningful challenges are rarely easy or obvious. We stay curious, balance our intuition with insights, and decide with confidence
- We lead with optimism - We believe in our mission, and we believe in each other. We see the world as it is, set ambitious goals, and inspire one another with generosity of spirit. Together, we reimagine what is possible
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Articles
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
People progressing
Became the Director of International Strategy and Operations after a year and 2 months as a senior manager in the division. After nearly 5 years in that role, they became Director of Marketing and International Strategy & Operations, and six months after that was promoted to Senior Director in that same department.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Etsy
- Diversity is a priority at Etsy, owned by everyone:
- A diverse workforce is critical to Etsy’s success—it makes us a stronger, better, more resilient and more relevant company. We have an inclusive culture and each of us actively creates opportunities for underrepresented groups to join, thrive and advance at Etsy
- We welcome all perspectives:
- As individuals, we invite a variety of viewpoints and experiences—especially when they conflict with our own. We encourage questions more than statements, and provide a safe environment in which all employees can surface and discuss concerns
- We measure and share openly:
- We contribute to broader progress by evaluating, iterating and transparently communicating our successes and failures internally and externally
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