Haystack News · 2 months ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Haystack News is the number one destination for news on streaming platforms, trusted by over 25 million viewers. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to redefine user experiences through algorithm enhancements, leveraging expertise in machine learning and data analytics to improve user engagement and retention.
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Responsibilities
Work cross-functionally to translate business problems into ones that can be solved using machine learning
Have curiosity and apply analytical skills to dive deep into data to find key insights that would impact the business
Develop machine learning models to make recommendations and influence the product roadmap
Work with other team members to develop key metrics to achieve business outcomes
Be a champion of AB testing. Design, execute, and analyze experiments to prove product change attribution
Qualification
Required
5+ year professional experience with at least 3 years building large-scale recommender systems (for news feeds, shopping, image, music, video, ads, etc)
Track record of shipping models to real-world applications and making an impact
Experience building and deploying online ML algorithms (e.g. contextual bandits)
Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or Operation Research
Proficient in programming in Python. Additional programming experience in Java, JavaScript, or C++ is a plus
Experience with deep learning and being familiar with tools such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms, such as GBDT, XGBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression
Experience with SQL (e.g. postgres, snowflake, etc)
Preferred
2+ years of applied research experience (including research work during PhD)
Experience working with LLMs, Semantic Search and text embeddings (e.g. BERT)
Company
Haystack News
Haystack News is an Ad-supported streaming news platform that offers relevant news, from local coverage to global current events.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$4.5M2018-09-04Series Unknown· $2M
2017-02-14Seed· $0.8M
2015-04-07Seed· $1.7M
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