Shopify · 2 months ago
Machine Learning Engineer - HSTU
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelShopify is a company focused on empowering entrepreneurs and enterprises to succeed in e-commerce. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop and implement innovative AI solutions that enhance merchant success and consumer experience through advanced recommendation models.
E-CommerceE-Commerce PlatformsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Responsibilities
Develop and deploy Generative AI, natural language processing, and HSTU-based recommendation models at scale
Design and implement scalable AI/ML system architectures supporting models
Build sophisticated inference pipelines that process billions of events and deliver real-time recommendations
Implement data pipelines for model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation across diverse data sources (merchant events, consumer interactions, payment sequences)
Experiment with novel architectures
Optimize for production through advanced techniques like negative sampling, ANN search, and distributed GPU training
Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, data scientists, and infrastructure engineers to deliver measurable business impact
Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, translating complex ML concepts into actionable insights
Qualification
Required
Mastery in recommendation systems, Gen AI or LLMs
End-to-end experience in training, evaluating, testing, and deploying machine learning products at scale
Experience in building data pipelines and driving ETL design decisions using disparate data sources
Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, streaming and batch data pipelines, vector databases, DBT, BigQuery, BigTable, or equivalent, and orchestration tools
Experience with running machine learning in parallel environments (e.g., distributed clusters, GPU optimization)
Company
Shopify
Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
Founded in 2004
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$122.25MKey Investors
Bessemer Venture PartnersKlister Credit
2015-05-21IPO
2013-12-11Series C· $100M
2011-10-17Series B· $15M
Leadership Team
Tobias Lütke
CEO
Mikhail Parakhin
Chief Technology Officer
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