Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Ads
About The Position
Nextdoor is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their growing machine learning team. This role will focus on transforming the product through personalization and driving impact across various platform areas. The team is looking for engineers who believe in the power of local community and ethical ML practices. Nextdoor operates in an AI-first environment, expecting team members to actively use AI tools in their workflow. The company offers a hybrid employment model, combining in-office and remote work. This position is part of a scrappy and impactful team building data-intensive products, working with data and features, developing machine learning models, and sharing insights from data and experiments. The engineer will collaborate closely with Product and Data Science teams and help build foundational patterns for future ML engineers on the platform.
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Computational Biology, or a related field
- 5+ years of industry/academic experience in applying machine learning at scale
- Experience in building ML models for advertising products
- Proven engineering skills. Experience in writing and maintaining high-quality production code
- Ability to work with and analyze large amounts of data
- Ability to succeed in a dynamic startup environment
Responsibilities
- Collect and gather datasets to build machine learning (ML) models that make real-time decisions for the Nextdoor platform
- Analyze datasets and use important features to build low-latency models for decisions that need to be made quickly
- Deploy ML models into production environments and integrate them into the product
- Run and analyze live user-facing experiments to iterate on model quality by measuring impact on business metrics
- Collaborate with other engineers and data scientists to create optimal experiences on the platform
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture
Benefits
- Variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option
- OneMedical membership for concierge care
- Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
