Principal Applied Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader.We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries.

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation.

At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer

Compensation: $260,000 - $300,000, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

As a Principal Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our innovative projects. Leveraging cutting-edge ML advancements, you'll work within our Relevancy org, driving ML solutions from research to production. You'll be instrumental in crafting and scaling ML strategies that make a real impact, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and the VP of Engineering (AI/Data). Your work will focus on areas like CTR and conversion modeling, UX optimization, price optimization, and NLP. We encourage continuous learning and experimentation with new deep learning architectures, allowing you to prototype, test, and deploy your groundbreaking solutions in a dynamic and impactful environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement machine learning algorithms along with scalable data processing and machine learning pipelines to solve business problems
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to identify machine learning opportunities
• Evaluate and improve the performance of machine learning models
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in machine learning research and apply them to real-world problems
• Sharing your knowledge by giving brown bag sessions, tech talks, and evangelising appropriate tech and engineering best practices.

Requirements

About you:

• PhD or Masters's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics a similar technical field of study with a specialisation in Machine Learning, Data mining, Information Retrieval or Data science.
• 10+ years of industry experience in building production-grade machine learning systems with all aspects of research, model training, tuning, deploying, serving and monitoring. Industry experience in ecommerce, recommender systems, digital marketing or two-sided marketplaces is a plus.
• Experience in the following areas - Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, Deep learning Architectures and Recommendation systems and if you have experience in ML for Ads or ecommerce it is a big plus.
• You excel in a dynamic, fast-paced setting, bringing a proven track record of meaningful contributions across teams, while effectively communicating ideas and learnings through collaborative discussions and presentations.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Kubeflow, TFX and Feature Store in a production environment is a massive plus

Benefits

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.

About The Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

• Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
• Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and get fully funded premium health insurance for your entire family!
• Dog-friendly office
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.

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