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Block · 4 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tidal Personalization AI

Bay Area, CA, United States of America

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$229K/yr - $343K/yr

12+ years exp

Block is a global technology company focused on financial services, and they are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for their Tidal Personalization AI team. The role involves leading strategic initiatives in AI/ML, developing systems that enhance user experience through personalized recommendations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and implement new features.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead strategic initiatives in Personalization & AI Engineering, driving the vision, architecture, and execution

Develop new AI/ML systems that power Tidal's homepage including semantic search, recommendations, UX and playlists

Build production systems that personalize the listener's experience

Be a technical leader and establish quality practices that stick, make broader design decisions and set an example for others to follow

Collaborate with a cross functional team of designers, business partners, and software engineers to build new technologies and features

Design experiments, test them on production users, analyze and repeat

Qualification

AI/ML systemsRecommender systemsSoftware engineeringLarge datasetsPyTorchAWSCustomer empathyCommunication skills

Required

12+ years building and operating quality software

5+ years of experience with recommender systems, ranking systems, or similar

Led the development of complex models trained on large datasets powering customer facing features

Strong software engineering skills

Strong communication skills and customer empathy

Preferred

Experience with PyTorch, PySpark, Databricks and AWS is a plus

Benefits

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Company

Block

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Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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