Slickdeals
Sr. ML Infrastructure Engineer II, Personalization
San Mateo, CA · Senior
Work authorization required$170k-$220kDetected 65 days ago
SQLElasticsearchVector DatabasesAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesAnsibleLinuxRESTKafkaMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchSparkData ScienceLLMsMLOpsA/B TestingProblem Solving
About the role
- About Slickdeals: We believe shopping should feel like winning.
- That's why 10 million people come to Slickdeals to swap tips, upvote the best finds, and share the thrill of a great deal.
- We're profitable, passionate, and in the middle of an exciting evolution-transforming from the internet's most trusted deal forum into the go-to daily shopping destination.
Responsibilities
- Design, train, and ship recommendation models including two-tower / dual-encoder retrieval, neural ranking, and re-ranking models
- Build embedding pipelines for users, deals, merchants, and content
- Define and run rigorous offline evaluation (recall@k, NDCG, MAP, calibration) and partner with data science to design online A/B tests
- Partner with product and data science on personalization surfaces - homepage, feeds, deal pages, search re-ranking, and lifecycle channels
- Build and own end-to-end ML pipelines for recommendations: data preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Design and operate low-latency model serving for high-QPS recommendation traffic
- Build feature pipelines and feature-store patterns that maintain online/offline parity
- Design, architect, and build reliability, observability, and utilization infrastructure for the recommendations stack
- Improve training cost, turnaround time, and reproducibility on the ML platform; collaborate with data scientists to unblock experimentation
- Encourage change, especially in support of ML engineering best practices, and maintain a high standard of excellence
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience
- Demonstrated experience designing, training, and shipping recommendation systems in production - not just classifiers or general ML
- Proficiency with ML modeling frameworks (PyTorch and/or TensorFlow) (5+ yrs)
- Experience with model serving platforms (TorchServe, TensorFlow Serving, NVIDIA Triton, or comparable custom serving infrastructure)
- Experience with vector retrieval / ANN at scale (e.g., FAISS, ScaNN, OpenSearch k-NN, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar)
- Experience working with cloud data processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, Presto, SQL (3+ yrs)
- Proficiency in at least two of: Linux, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes (5+ yrs)
- Experience in distributed computing (7+ yrs)
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure (5+ yrs)
- Experience with hardware / resource management for ML training and/or deployment
Nice to have
- Experience with feature stores (Feast, Tecton, or custom)
- Experience with real-time / streaming feature engineering
- E-commerce, content, or marketplace recommendation domain experience
- The expected base pay for this role is between $170,000 - $220,000.
- 401K matching above the industry standard
Compensation
- Slickdeals Compensation, Benefits, Perks:
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual bonus, and equity package
- Competitive paid time off in addition to holiday time off
- A variety of healthcare insurance plans to give you the best care for your needs
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- iterate on representation learning approaches
Company info
- We may access publicly available information as part of your application.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Work Authorization
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