Etsy

Senior Applied Scientist I, Recommendations Ranking

Brooklyn, New York · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$183k-$216kDetected 7 days ago

PythonScalaMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchLLMsMLOpsA/B Testing

About the role

Company Description Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods.
As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
Salary Range: $183,000.00 - $216,000.00 What's the role?

Build user models that allow us to better understand the unique interests, tastes, and shopping mission of Etsy's buyers.
Develop models that target Etsy-specific problems, including but not limited to personalized ranking, multi-objective optimization, diversity constraints etc.
Design foresight and intent prediction models that anticipate future buyer needs, predict lifecycle transitions.
Prototype, optimize, and productionize large-scale ML models that help deliver key results
Conduct experiments (A/B testing etc.) to validate the effectiveness of ML models and pipelines

You have the ability to write and manipulate data at a large scale and you have an eye towards maintainability.

$183,000.00 - $216,000.00
In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy.

You have a successful track record of applying machine learning techniques in addressing real-world problems.
We are looking for a passionate and talented Applied Machine Learning Scientist to join our Recommendation Ranking team.
Our team develops Machine Learning models to understand buyers, personalize, and rank recommendations across Etsy.com and the Etsy app.
We are looking for individuals who are product & technology driven, and are passionate about making ML innovations in areas such as: Ranking, Reinforcement Learning, LLM and Deep Learning!
You have experience with / working in one of the following fields: deep learning, multi-modal learning, reinforcement learning etc.
You have hands-on experience in training, deploying, monitoring, debugging and iterating on production machine learning systems in search, recommendation, and/or ads systems.

If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know.

While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

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