Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Patreon
Relevance
$200-300k
Offers Equity
2+ days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Open for applications
Funding platform for creatives
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-300k
Offers Equity
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To put creators in control of their work and their futures by strengthening the bond between them and their communities.
Role
Who you are
- You have a minimum of 5 years of experience working in an end-to-end machine learning team environment: analyzing data, building and iterating on machine learning models, writing production-level code and shipping to production, monitoring performance, and A/B testing
- You write clean and robust code in Python or other programming languages and have a keen eye for detail in code reviews
- You have experience debugging complex systems with a systematic approach
- You have a curious mindset and dive deeply into datasets to understand our product and customers
- You have solid communication skills and write clear documentation
- You have a growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills
- You are energized about building the first version of systems and are passionate about empowering creators with new machine learning solutions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent
What the job involves
- We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to support our mission
- This role is based in San Francisco or New York and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model
- Conduct exploratory data analyses and proof-of-concept machine learning models to understand opportunities and potential project impact
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as product, engineering, design, legal, and trust and safety to design effective machine learning solutions
- Analyze and prepare training data, including using crowdsourcing data labeling techniques
- Train and iterate on machine learning models using novel techniques
- Deploy machine learning models to production and write backend code when necessary to properly deploy the model
- Debug models when observability shows performance gaps, and iterate on models
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5B through the platform.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans are available to our US employees and their dependents. Our plans have a nationwide network and we also cover a primary care concierge membership.
- Balance & Wellness: We offer a generous Flexible Time Off policy, in addition to days throughout the year where everyone takes the same day off to recharge our batteries. Employees and their dependents also have access to therapy, coaching, and Employee Assistance Programs services.
- Family Planning: We provide 20 weeks of paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits, as well as an annual stipend for new additions to your families (including pets!).
- Lifestyle & Learning: You’ll have stipends to fund your personal lifestyle and to support your favorite creators on Patreon, as well as an annual stipend for learning and development.
- Hybrid Work: Our offices are in San Francisco, New York, and Porto. Plus, we have more teammates working remotely around the world.
- Financial Support: We offer employer matching for our retirement plans and Health Savings Account (HSA), as well as access to 1:1 financial guidance with a Certified Financial Planner.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Conte
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(Co-Founder, CTO & President)Worked in Analytics and Engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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