Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join the Proton team as a Senior ML Engineer to help define and ship ML features that add value to our customers. As a product-minded generalist, you will develop and implement machine learning features to power product recommendations, customer insights, and search functionality.

Requirements

• ML experience: You have worked in an ML team and have successfully shipped ML features to production. You understand core ML concepts and tooling, their purpose and practical trade-offs
• Startup mindset: You're pragmatic, nimble, and have a good record of shipping features, iterating fast, and working closely with users and PMs
• Strong software engineering skills: You have a proven track record of writing and deploying quality code at a senior level
• Problem-solving skills: You enjoy tackling difficult problems and can understand and take action on complex ideas quickly
• Independence: You take ownership of your work and thrive when given creative freedom. You like to experiment with new concepts and learn from mistakes
• Agility: You can adapt to new and interesting challenges in a fast-paced startup environment
• Team spirit: You recognize when you need support and are quick to support others when they need the same
• Communication skills: You can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement machine learning features to power product recommendations, customer insights, and search functionality
• Improve ML features within our existing infrastructure, ensuring scalability and performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research in recommendation systems, personalization, and other relevant ML fields
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices for ML development and deployment

Benefits

• Competitive Salaries + Company Stock Options - we want to pay you well (and equitably!) and make you feel like an owner
• Flexible Schedule - we think high levels of autonomy, responsibility and working asynchronously foster an amazing workplace
• Unlimited PTO + 10 Company Paid Holidays - we even have tools implemented to detect burnout to make sure folks recharge regularly
• 12 Weeks Fully Paid Parental Leave - that goes for primary and secondary caregivers; even if you’re adopting or fostering!
• Biannual Company Paid off-sites - time for us to be together, brainstorm, and make magic happen