Position: Machine Learning Engineer (NLP)
Company: Constructor.io
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

**About us**

Constructor.io powers product search and discovery for some of the largest retailers in the world. We serve billions of requests every week and reinvent search and discovery from the ground up as a machine learning challenge with the specific goal of improving metrics like revenue. 

We're looking for ML Engineer experienced in both software engineering (python) and deep learning (pytorch, NLP).

**Challenges you will tackle**
- Build and deploy robust ML systems for search (including vector search, attribute enrichment for products, etc).
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop analytical dashboards that describe the impact of ML algorithms to stakeholders.
- Improve business KPIs by using new techniques/models and validating hypotheses.
- Make whole system more transparent for our customer.

**About you**
- You are proficient in NLP on high level, has practical experience with modern architectures.
- You are familiar with classic NLP approaches, have a good understanding of when to use them, acknowledged about advantages/disadvantages vs modern approaches.
- You excel at Python, at least one ML/DL framework (we're using torch), have proficiency with any variant of SQL, and feel comfortable with the big data stack like Spark, Presto/Athena & Hive.
- You have delivered production ML systems and conducted A/B tests to validate their value.
- You are an excellent communicator with the ability to translate intuition into data-driven hypotheses that result in engineering solutions that bring significant business value.

**Requirements**
- Excellent NLP knowledge (especially transformer-based approaches)
- Comprehensive knowledge of classical machine learning
- Practical experience with deep learning
- Great Python knowledge
- Proficiency with big data stack for end-to-end ML product development
- Excellent skills delivering and communicating business value

**Will be huge plus**
- Skills designing, conducting, and analyzing A/B tests
- Experience with Rust (or C/C++)
- Experience with a public cloud like AWS, Azure, or GCP
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and their trade-off

**Salary** for this position 90-110k USD + stock options + stipend

**Benefits**
- Unlimited vacation time: we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
- A competitive compensation package including stock options
- Company sponsored US health coverage (100% paid for employee)
- Fully remote team - choose where you live
- Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
- Apple laptops provided for new employees
- Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
- Parental leave for qualified employees
- Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact

**Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor**

At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.