Chewy - Boston, MA
posted 4 months ago
As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Chewy, you will play a pivotal role in transforming customer experiences through innovative machine learning models. The Chewy Search & Recommendations team is dedicated to simplifying product discovery for pet owners on Chewy.com. This multi-disciplinary team, comprising data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and product managers, collaborates to create personalized recommendations and search functionalities that cater to the needs of pet parents. Your contributions will directly impact millions of customers, making their shopping experience more intuitive and frictionless. In this position, you will be involved in all stages of model development, from ideation and analysis to architecture, pipeline creation, tuning, experimentation, and establishing feedback loops. You will have the opportunity to work on significant science projects, taking them from concept through offline evaluation to deployment, experimentation, and continuous model improvement. Your role will also include formalizing assumptions about model behavior, defining outliers, and developing systematic methods to identify and address these outliers. You will be expected to present your findings and insights to business stakeholders with varying levels of technical expertise, ensuring that your research translates into actionable business recommendations. The team values collaboration and learning, and you will work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to advancing data science and machine learning techniques. This position offers the chance to make a tangible impact on the business while working in a supportive and innovative environment.