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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Premium Discovery

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17 days ago
Toronto, Canada +5 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$140k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the migration of Fable recommendations onto Orion across data, features, training, serving, and experiments while maintaining the existing system.
  • Extend rankers, the feature store, and embedding-based retrieval to support Fable in partnership with the Orion ML platform team.
  • Own production recommendation-system quality, latency, cost, and on-call operations.
  • Incorporate Fable social signals into recommendations for Fable and Everand.
  • Design and analyze online A/B tests with product managers and analysts.
  • Act as technical lead for Premium recommendations, shape the roadmap, and drive cross-team delivery.
  • Improve engineering practices through design reviews, code quality, and operational readiness.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional machine learning or software engineering experience with a record of shipping production ML systems.
  • Hands-on production recommender-system experience, including collaborative filtering or matrix factorization, two-tower or embedding retrieval, and learned ranking.
  • Experience with large-scale data processing using Spark, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP, including deploying containerized services using Kubernetes, ECS, or similar platforms.
  • Experience designing and analyzing online experiments.
  • Experience leading projects dependent on other teams and working directly with product managers.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include Google Cloud, Vertex AI, BigQuery, production ML-system migration, social or graph-based recommendations, search and semantic retrieval, and consumer reading, media, or social-app experience.

Benefits

  • Scribd Flex provides a flexible work model, with occasional in-person attendance required and residence near specified cities in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, disability coverage, paid time off, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
  • Paid parental leave, family support benefits, retirement matching, employee equity, learning and development programs, wellness and home-office stipends, and access to Scribd products.
  • Enterprise access to leading AI tools and a comprehensive benefits package.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache SparkAWSDatabricksDatadogDjangoElasticsearchFastAPIGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudgRPCKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonRuby on RailsTerraform

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