Chewy · 2 days ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$185K/yr - $296K/yr
3+ years expChewy is a leading e-commerce company specializing in pet products, and they are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to enhance their Sponsored Ads team. The role involves deploying machine learning solutions to improve advertising effectiveness and collaborating with product and engineering leaders to drive innovation in ad offerings.
E-CommercePetRetail
Responsibilities
You will deploy machine learning and data-science to simplify shopping experience for pet-parents, to maximize reach and discovery of new products of Chewy vendors and helping build a win-win ecosystem
Directly influence and collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve solutions using applied science to improve selection, ranking, relevance, deal-offerings, click through prediction models, dynamic bidding, and auction algorithms for Chewy onsite and offsite advertising solutions
You will lead new models from ideation to experimentation, and eventually to production delivery to improve Chewy products offerings and advance applied science applications
Publish research papers in leading ML/AI/Advertising conferences solving problems for scale using innovative modelling
Establish high bar on model performance, establish applied-science implementation best practices and mentoring junior scientists
Deploy solutions at Chewy scale improving overall customer engagement and value for Pet Parents
Formalizing proposals and communicating verbally and in writing to Chewy Senior Leadership and business customers with varying levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our research, as well as sharing insights and recommendations
Qualification
Required
An advanced degree (M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience) in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science or related field or proven experience for at least 3 years crafting optimization and machine learning solutions for large scale applications
Ability to understand and apply sophisticated mathematics and DS methodologies
Experience in building distributed pipeline, tuning, optimizing and evaluation
Experience with Sponsored Ads or Advertisement domain
Experience with multiple techniques that include Predictive Models (Time Series and Regression), Linear Programming, and Classification, Search, Ranking or large-scale embeddings
Ability to translate sophisticated data sets and research into simple business recommendations
Preferred
Experience in e-commerce or retail
Prior experience in Advertising systems a huge plus
Experience with ML Services in AWS (SageMaker, Personalize) or equivalent
Benefits
401k
Medical/Rx
Vision
Dental
Life
Disability
Hospital indemnity
Critical illness
Accident
Parental leave
Family services benefits
Backup dependent care
Flexible spending accounts
Telemedicine
Pet adoption reimbursement
Employee assistance program
Discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com
Unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval
Six paid holidays per year
Paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations
Company
Chewy
Chewy is a pet store that offers products, services, supplies, and prescriptions for pet parents and partners with online services.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Chewy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$951MKey Investors
Lone Pine CapitalWells Fargo Capital FinanceBlackRock
2024-09-19Post Ipo Secondary· $500M
2019-06-13IPO
2017-04-18Acquired
Leadership Team
Michael Hyman
Vice President
Jim Nelson
Director
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