Principal Machine Learning Scientist Search Recommendations at System1

System1 is looking for an experienced machine learning researcher and practitioner to join our data science and machine learning team as a Principal Machine Learning Scientist supporting the Search & Recommendations team.  This is a senior individual contributor role focused on driving research and development of new cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that power dynamic content decisioning for one of the biggest real-time acquisition marketing platforms in the world - reaching 100s of millions of users every month.

The ideal candidate will have experience leading efforts researching, developing, and deploying cutting-edge machine learning search, recommendations, and advanced personalization algorithms into production systems. You should keep up with the latest academic research and developments. You should have strong engineering skills and experience with integrating machine learning and engineering in a dynamic production environment.

With billions of data points ingested daily and the ability to impact and automate millions of critical decisions that drive the core of our business, this is a unique opportunity to build new advanced ML and AI capabilities at a company that still innovates at the pace of a startup but has the data and scale of a successful billion dollar company!


The Role You Will Have

Provide both hands-on/individual contributor support and technical thought leadership in the development of highly scalable algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning models to build products delivering new recommendations, search, personalization, and dynamic content decisioning capabilities
Leverage knowledge of software engineering principles to guide development and deployment of production machine learning solutions that can scale to millions of requests per second with millisecond latency
Maintain expert knowledge in the latest in machine learning with an emphasis on emerging techniques in natural language understanding, semantic search, image recommendations, and optimal ranking
Actively contribute to the wider internal and external data science and machine learning communities by sharing and publishing research and findings
Work with cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists, and analysts, to devise implementation and experimentation strategies
Utilize broad and deep knowledge of machine learning to contribute to the development of System1’s roadmap for core machine learning capabilities
Coach and mentor data scientists to elevate the talent bar across System1 



What You Will Bring

Bachelor's degree (Master's or Ph.D preferred) in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc) or equivalent work experience
5+ years of experience researching & developing algorithms for search and/or dynamic content recommendations
Strong machine learning and algorithmic background with a deep understanding of advanced language models, recommendations and search systems, and advanced deep learning techniques
Hands-on experience using high performance machine learning libraries and/or deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, RAPIDs, etc)
Hands-on experience building ML driven products
Experience leading technical research and production grade development efforts/teams
Fluency with at least one data science/analytics programming language (e.g. Python, R, Julia) 
Strong software design and implementation skills with a general-purpose programming language (e.g. Rust, Scala, C++/C#, Java, Haskell, etc) 
Experience building scalable distributed products to implement batch, real-time, and streaming machine learning products
Strong functional programming development skills (preferred)
Ability to effectively communicate technical information to a wide spectrum of cross-functional team members
Experience mentoring and coaching junior team members



What We Have to Offer

Competitive salary + bonus + equity
Generous PTO + 11 company holidays
Open sick time
100% covered Medical, Dental, Vision for employees
401k with match
Health & Dependent Care Flex Spending Account 
Paid professional development
Leadership & growth opportunities
Virtual company and team building events 
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