Team Lead Machine Learning Engineer

About SO1

SO1 brings artificial intelligence to grocery retail.

We are building a revolutionary AI promotion platform based on machine learning and seamless retail integration. The SO1 Engine learns autonomously about individual consumer's preferences and their willingness-to-pay, providing real-time targeting across various media channels in the form of individual promotion feeds. Working with leading retailers in Europe and North America, SO1 has proven its superior ability to serve up the right offers to consumers while at the same time maximizing financial impact for retailers and globally recognized brands.

SO1 has been backed by high-profile investors with 8-figure investments and continues to focus on building the best AI for retail.

Position

SO1 is looking for a Team Lead Machine Learning Engineer who is thrilled with applied machine learning research, open-minded about techniques and approaches, willing to pick the best tool for the job and would like to work with an exciting live dataset spanning billions of rows.

You fit in the position just right if you are keen on working with world-class teammates in a successful startup to bring a product to the market that will change a billion-dollar industry, while watching how your insights and models influence the purchasing habits of millions of people.

Your Role

• Create and execute a strategy for SO1's machine learning technology 
• Support, mentor and coach team members to the top of their potential
• Assist new employees to settle down, be responsible for the feedback sessions and trainings
• Develop mathematical abstractions covering business needs in flexible ways
• Share your ideas for models, prototype them, deploy to production and run A/B tests
• Establish communication channels, and synthesize and relate the relevant information from the ML team to stakeholders

Your qualification

Must have

• Significant industry experience bringing large-scale machine learning models to production
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• A curious, creative, and analytical mindset
• Strong fundamentals in probability theory, information theory, statistics, linear algebra, computer science, data structures and algorithms
• Deep familiarity with Python, Unix and SQL

Highly desirable

• Experience working with very large datasets and live production systems
• Experience with gradient boosting and/or deep learning
• Experience with either of: semi-supervised learning, representation learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, ranking & recommendation, metaheuristics and optimization, generative models

Will be a plus

• Public activity in the ML scene (Kaggle, сonferences, papers, open source projects etc.)
• Background in fintech/adtech/research

What we offer

• A multi-terabyte, rich dataset of customer behaviors
• Tight feedback loops on prediction results with model deployment in a real-time system
• A wide selection of projects, from large-scale prediction, through uplift measurement to anomaly detection
• Highly energetic environment and very smart colleagues from diverse fields
• Freedom to shape your role and significantly impact the company’s direction and future
• Share in the company success through virtual stock options
• The flavor of a startup (free drinks & snacks, team events, rooftop terrace, etc.) combined with the professionalism of seasoned veterans

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of SO1.