Degree in Computational Biology
A/B Testing, Data Analysis, Machine learning techniques, Mentoring
Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.
Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 305,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
Meet Your Future Neighbors
At Nextdoor, machine learning is one of the most important teams we are growing. Machine learning is starting to transform our product through personalization, driving major impact across different parts of our platform including newsfeed, notifications, ads relevance, connections, search, and trust. Our machine learning team is lean but hungry to drive even more impact and make Nextdoor the neighborhood hub for local exchange. We believe that ML will be an integral part of making Nextdoor valuable to our members. We also believe that ML should be ethical and encourage healthy habits and interaction, not addictive behavior. We are looking for great engineers who believe in the power of the local community to empower our members to make their communities great places to live.
The Impact You’ll Make
Join us and be part of the hyper growth team!
As a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Ads Machine Learning team at Nextdoor, you will have a unique opportunity to build all optimization engines from the ground up with the state-of-art technology. You will work to advance both your technical and ads domain expertise across ads targeting, bidding, pacing, pricing and delivery optimization areas and beyond.
We are looking for a driven and entrepreneurial individual who is passionate about advertising products and making a significant direct business impact. You will have the chance to take ownership of large-scale projects and lead a team of talented machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to deliver innovative and cutting-edge solutions.
Successful candidates will exhibit technical depth, strong product sense and business savvy, with a passion for making an impact through timely execution. If you're keen on building and scaling machine learning products, have a passion for advertising optimization products, and enjoy making an impact through timely execution, we want you on our team!
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
As a company that values learning and growth, we are committed to investing in your personal and professional development. You will have access to resources and mentorship that will help you expand your skills and expertise. At Nextdoor, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere and anyone, and we encourage our team members to bring their unique perspectives and ideas to the table.
What You’ll Bring To The Team
At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people.
Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. is an American company which operates a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. Nextdoor launched in the United States in October 2011, and is available in 11 countries as of May 2023. Users of Nextdoor are required to submit their real names and addresses to the website. However, they don't verify the accuracy of submitted names and addresses.