Machine Learning Engineer, Rec Room
$155-190k
Platform for building and playing games together
Open for applications
Platform for building and playing games together
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$155-190k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide gaming lovers with amazing immersive social, multiplayer, VR, and AR experiences.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who is driven by doing impactful work and is passionate about building great solutions
- Master's or Ph.D. degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in Machine Learning and Applied Science in a production setting, ideally working on personalization, recommendations, ranking, personalization, search, and/or content discovery
- Excellent software engineering skills in multiple languages. Ability to leverage Python and large-scale data processing with Spark (e.g. PySpark, SparkSQL, and/or Scala)
- Experience building and shipping ML Models into production with great results
- Exceptional communication skills, the ability to explain complex technical concepts to partners across all business functions
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, a strong ownership mindset, and a desire to thrive on minimal oversight and process
- A strong sense of curiosity with a desire to experiment and iterate to get to a great solution
Desirable
- Experience and/or a passion for gaming
- DBT knowledge
- Spark/Databricks knowledge
- Additional language proficiency (e.g. Java, Scala) are also a plus
What the job involves
- As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing machine learning models to power our in-game store recommendations and serve users content that they’d find valuable
- You’ll identify areas of improvement, iterate on how we’ve done things before, and find better ways of doing things
- Design, develop, implement, and ship high-impact machine learning models that deliver valuable content to our users
- Partner with the Data infrastructure team on things like our real-time personalization road-map & ranking models
- Design and run experiments to uncover opportunities for improvement (i.e., A/B tests and model performance)
- Work closely with Product Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to gather detailed requirements, build pipelines, and implement end-to-end solutions at scale
- Champion and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
- Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional partners across the business
Our take
Originally launched as a social hangout for virtual-reality headset users, Rec Room follows in the footsteps of gaming giants Roblox, offering a blend of gaming, social media, and user-generated content. With a teenage target market that is slightly older than Roblox, Rec Room now boasts around 29 million active users.
Like its closest rival, Rec Room also puts an emphasis on content creation, allowing users to create their own virtual rooms and games, and share them with the community. However, whilst other companies have relied on platforms like Facebook to initiate the social aspect of the gaming experience, Rec Room has independently provided a variety of social experiences for both novices and experienced gamers.
The company has recently seen both its user-base and valuation grow exponentially, with the considerable funding raised by the company cited to expand operations and business reach. Rec Room also has aims to experiment with changing avatars to add more personalization, for instance by adding feet, and is investigating further brand partnerships in apparel, music, and other categories, as well as more "game-adjacent" content.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$145m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $294m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Culture - As a workplace, we're a fun, supportive, high trust culture and offer 100% remote or hybrid opportunities out of our Seattle office. We provide work from home office equipment, support, and furniture reimbursements
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - We want you to be the best version of yourself. We offer unlimited PTO to give our team members the time they need, when they need it
- 401K - Rec Room offers a competitive 401k package with 100% employer matching up to 6%
- Health and Wellness - We offer premium benefits including: Medical, Dental, Orthodontics, Vision, Paid Parental Leave, Life Insurance, Long Term/Short Term Disability, FSA, Family Care, and EAP
- Career Growth and Mentorship - We are growing fast and we make it a priority to invest in the growth and career development of our folks through educational opportunities and mentorship
- Equity - Become a stakeholder in one of Seattle's most exciting Unicorns! We are a privately held company and offer competitive stock options
Company values
- When in doubt, build it - We take a bias towards action. When in doubt, we build it. We value doers over talkers. Playable code speaks louder than any argument.
- Ready, fire, aim, REPEAT! - We ship and iterate constantly. We learn by trying new things and listening to our community.
- It's a small world - We respect our customers. We value long term connections over making a quick buck. No exploitive monetization methods.
Company HQ
Uptown, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Nick Fajt
(CEO & Co-Founder)They studied at Cornell before working at Microsoft HoloLens, in roles including Principal Program Manager.
Cameron Brown
(CCO & Co-Founder)They started their career at Beam Software before roles at Auran, Pandemic Studios, and EA. They also spent 4 years at Microsoft Creative Studios.
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