Base Salary
$180k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and productionization of ML models for feed recommendations and buyer personalization.
- Lead ML projects end to end, including scoping, data collection, feature engineering, model training, deployment, backend implementation, and online experimentation.
- Support product initiatives involving exploration, international markets, new buyers, new sellers, and small-category growth.
- Collaborate with Backend Software Engineers to implement ML solutions in production and contribute to backend development for recommendations and feed systems.
- Establish ML best practices, improve production-model scalability, and grow ML knowledge across the Buyer and Discovery teams.
Requirements
- 4+ years of industry experience building and deploying ML models to solve user problems at scale.
- A track record of applying scientific methods to real-world problems using consumer-scale data.
- Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, and common ML frameworks such as PyTorch and XGBoost.
- Proficiency in applied statistics and visualization tools such as dashboards and notebooks.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence roadmaps and align cross-functional teams.
- Preferred: experience building ML applications for Discovery and Personalization domains.
- Preferred: experience with backend development.
Benefits
- Flexible time off and company-wide holidays, including spring and winter breaks.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Work-from-home support, including a home-office setup allowance and monthly cell-phone and internet allowance.
- Wellness, childcare, family-planning, and care benefits.
- 401(k) Traditional and Roth plans in the US with employer matching up to 4% of base salary, plus international pension plans.
- Monthly allowance to use the Whatnot app as both a buyer and seller.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave plus one month of gradual return to work.
- US-based employees must be within commuting distance of the New York City hub.
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About Whatnot
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the US, UK, and Europe. Millions of people come to Whatnot every day to buy, sell, and connect over the things they love, from sneakers to sports cards, vintage fashion to fine jewelry, comics to Pokémon, beauty, electronics, and hundreds of other categories. In 2025, live sales on Whatnot surpassed $8B, more than doubling the year before. Over 20 million accounts were created last year alone, and we have been the #1 shopping app in both the US and UK. We've built a real business, but we're nowhere near done. Live commerce at this scale has never been done in the West, which means the people here now are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. The pace here is fast and the expectations are high. We move quickly, prioritize ruthlessly, and trust people to own their work end-to-end. In return, careers grow faster, impact is real, and your colleagues will raise your standards. It's an environment built for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside others doing the same. We're a remote, co-located team with hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, and we're hiring across every function.