Machine Learning Scientist, Wayfair

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience with PhD or 3+ years of industry experience with MSc/BaSc in STEM -- engineering, computer science, economics, etc
• Proficiency in Python or one other high-level programming language
• The candidate must have a strong theoretical understanding and solid hands-on expertise deploying machine learning solutions into production
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to synthesize conclusions for non-experts, and overall bias towards simplicity
• Intellectual curiosity and enthusiastic about continuous learning

Desirable

• Wayfair’s Marketing, Pricing, and Profitability ML team builds algorithmic systems that drive our business, enhance customer experience, and improve customer loyalty
• You will be part of a cross-functional, collaborative team driving development of world-class ML systems that drive real-world impact
• Design, build, deploy and refine large-scale machine learning models and algorithmic decision-making systems that solve real-world problems for customers
• Work cross-functionally with commercial stakeholders to understand business problems or opportunities and develop appropriately scoped analytical solutions
• Collaborate closely with various engineering, infrastructure, and ML platform teams to ensure adoption of best-practices in how we build and deploy scalable ML services
• Build robust monitoring, alerting, edge-case handling mechanism
• Identify new opportunities and insights from the data (where can the models be improved? what is the projected ROI of a proposed modification?)
• Be obsessed with the customer and maintain a customer-centric lens in how we frame, approach, and ultimately solve every problem we work on