Machine Learning Scientist II

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Job Summary:

Wayfair is an online retail platform with the mission to enable everyone to live in a home they love. They are seeking a Machine Learning Scientist II to design, build, deploy, and refine large-scale machine learning models and algorithmic decision-making systems that solve real-world problems for customers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy and refine large-scale machine learning models and algorithmic decision-making systems that solve real-world problems for customers

• Work cross-functionally with commercial stakeholders to understand business problems or opportunities and develop appropriately scoped analytical solutions

• Collaborate closely with various engineering, infrastructure, and ML platform teams to ensure adoption of best-practices in how we build and deploy scalable ML services

• Build robust monitoring, alerting, edge-case handling mechanism

• Identify new opportunities and insights from the data (where can the models be improved? what is the projected ROI of a proposed modification?)

• Be obsessed with the customer and maintain a customer-centric lens in how we frame, approach, and ultimately solve every problem we work on

Qualifications:

Required:

• Minimum 0-1 years of experience with PhD, or 3 years of industry experience with MSc/BaSc in STEM -- engineering, computer science, economics, etc.

• Proficiency in Python or one other high-level programming language

• Must have a strong theoretical understanding and solid hands-on expertise deploying machine learning solutions into production.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to synthesize conclusions for non-experts, and overall bias towards simplicity

• Intellectual curiosity and enthusiastic about continuous learning

Preferred:

• Experience with Python ML ecosystem (numpy, pandas, sklearn, XGBoost, etc.) and/or Apache Spark Ecosystem (Spark SQL, MLlib/Spark ML)

• Familiarity with GCP (or AWS, Azure), ML model development frameworks, ML orchestration tools (Airflow, Kubeflow or MLFlow)

• Experience with Spark, Kubernetes, Docker are nice to have

Company:

Wayfair is a retail store that offers a wide range of home products such as outdoor, bedding, lighting, and appliances with online services. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Wayfair has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.