Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About the role

Your Opportunity: Advertising is a critical component of the ecommerce ecosystem and provides a critical revenue stream to the company. At Chewy, our Sponsored Ads Technology team based out of Bellevue, WA is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help launch various innovative ads-offerings for Chewy onsite and offsite sponsored ads.

Responsibilities

• Deploy machine learning and data-science to simplify shopping experience for pet-parents, to maximize reach and discovery of new products of Chewy vendors and helping create a win-win ecosystem.
• Directly influence and collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve solutions using applied science to improve selection, ranking, relevance, deal-offerings, click through prediction models, dynamic bidding, and auction algorithms for Chewy onsite and offsite advertising solutions.
• Lead new models from ideation to experimentation, and eventually to production delivery to improve Chewy products offerings and advance applied science applications.
• Publish research papers in leading ML/AI/Advertising conferences solving problems for scale using innovative modelling.
• Establish high bar on model performance, establish applied-science implementation best practices and mentoring junior scientists.
• Deploy solutions at Chewy scale improving overall customer engagement and value for Pet Parents.
• Formalizing proposals and communicating verbally and in writing to Chewy Senior Leadership and business customers with varying levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our research, as well as sharing insights and recommendations.

Requirements

• An advanced degree (M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience) in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science or related field or proven experience for at least 3 years designing optimization and machine learning solutions for large scale applications.
• 6+ years of experience working in Machine Learning.
• Ability to understand and apply sophisticated mathematics and DS methodologies.
• Experience in building distributed pipeline, tuning, optimizing and evaluation.
• Experience with Sponsored Ads or Advertisement domain.
• Experience with multiple techniques that include Predictive Models (Time Series and Regression), Linear Programming, and Classification, Search, Ranking or large-scale embeddings.
• Ability to translate complex data sets and research into simple business recommendations.
• Bonus: Experience in e-commerce or retail. Prior experience in Advertising systems a huge plus.
• Experience with ML Services in AWS (SageMaker, Personalize) or equivalent.

Qualifications

• The base salary range for this role is $149,000 - $245,000. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location.
• This position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
• We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident.
• We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
• Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Skills

• Experience with ML Services in AWS (SageMaker, Personalize) or equivalent.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this role is $149,000 - $225,000.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location.
• We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident.
• We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
• Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Pay

• The base salary range for this role is $149,000 - $245,000. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location.

Schedule

• This position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.