Applied Research Scientist, Machine Learning

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

We are looking for an Applied Research Scientist in Machine Learning that will work closely with other engineers to build and train models to recommend the articles that our readers will love, and understand natural language in Medium posts better. You will build machine learning model prototypes, use statistical learning tools to discover structure in our data coming from millions of interactions daily.

What will you do?

• You will select and tune machine learning models and measure their performance for recommendation tasks and many other natural language processing tasks.
• You will work closely with system engineers to get your research ideas into production and run experiments.
• You will use tools to extract and transform data, engineer features for your model, build offline evaluation tools.
• You will apply state-of-the-art machine learning technologies to find the most interesting and relevant content for readers on Medium and help them get value from Medium by measuring model performance in offline and online settings.
• You will collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers across the company.

Who are you?

• You have worked for 2+ years on machine learning models for item recommendation and NLP applications.
• You have experience working on production machine learning systems at scale, analytics, search, ranking, recommendations, and/or natural language processing.
• You have a deep understanding of machine learning models, feature engineering, and how to evaluate model performance.
• You are fluent in Python and are familiar with Python ML libraries such as sklearn, TensorFlow and/or PyTorch

Nice to have:

• Experience getting models into production, preferably at scale

This role can be based in San Francisco, New York, or be remote within the U.S.