Patreon is hiring a
Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Machine Learning Engineer at Patreon to work on Trust & Safety solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deploy machine learning models. The role is remote or hybrid (2 days in office per week in San Francisco or New York).

Requirements

• You have experience creating end-to-end ML solutions for the Trust & Safety space: analyzing data, building and iterating on machine learning models, writing production-level code and shipping to production, monitoring performance, and A/B testing
• You write clean and robust code in Python or other programming languages and have a keen eye for detail in code reviews
• You have experience debugging complex systems with a systematic approach
• You have a curious mindset and dive deeply into datasets to understand our product and customers
• You have solid communication skills and write clear documentation
• You have a growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills
• You are energized about building the first version of systems and are passionate about keeping creators and users safe with new machine learning solutions

Responsibilities

• Work on cutting edge Trust & Safety Machine Learning solutions for detecting fraud, mitigating fake accounts and account takeovers, detecting image and text policy violations, reducing data scraping, and others
• Conduct exploratory data analyses and proof-of-concept machine learning models to understand opportunities and potential project impact
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as product, engineering, design, legal, and trust and safety to design effective machine learning solutions
• Analyze and prepare training data, including using crowdsourcing and Large Language Model data labeling techniques
• Train and iterate on machine learning models using novel techniques, including state-of-the-art image models, and Large Language Models for text classification
• Deploy machine learning models to production and write backend code when necessary to properly deploy the model
• Debug models when observability shows performance gaps, and iterate on models

Benefits

Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching