Senior Data/ML Engineer, Product

Summary

Join Zora's Discovery team as a Senior Data/ML Engineer to build and improve recommendation systems for creators and content. You will design, build, and iterate on retrieval and ranking pipelines for various product surfaces. Your work will involve defining metrics, designing A/B tests, and building and maintaining discovery surfaces for the API. The role requires strong communication and prioritization skills, along with the ability to write performant and maintainable code. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building production data pipelines with ML and experience running experiments effectively. Zora offers top-quality medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible time off, equity, and additional company perks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as an engineer building production data pipelines with ML
• Proven track record of running experiments effectively
• Good communication and prioritization skills
• Ability to ship performant, maintainable code that make reasonable tradeoffs between product needs and technical constraints
• EU or U.S. (ET) time zone

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and iterate on retrieval and ranking pipelines that power discovery surfaces across the product, like feed, explore, search, and future ML-driven features
• Shape evaluation loops by defining high-signal metrics, designing A/B tests, and adjusting weights based on outcomes
• Build and maintain discovery surfaces for the API, used by the product as well as external partners
• Communicate status, updates, blockers, etc., to cross-functional stakeholders
• Respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation
• Participate in RFC and code review

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with ingestion for blockchain data
• Strong knowledge of Python and MongoDB
• Familiarity with modern ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc
• Experience operating within high-ambiguity startup environments
• Good product intuition and understanding of user needs

Benefits

• Zora provides top quality medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible time-off policy
• Equity
• Additional company perks (including stipends for: L&D, internet/phone bill, Ease of Life, and more!)