Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Merchant Menu

$119,100 - $175,100/Yr

Doordash - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

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About the position

The Applied Machine Learning Engineer role at DoorDash focuses on developing AI solutions to optimize Merchant menus, enhancing the experience for both Merchants and Consumers. The position requires a strong command of production-level machine learning and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams to lead strategies and execute projects. The engineer will leverage advanced technologies such as computer vision, NLP, and deep learning to create impactful machine learning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Leverage computer vision, NLP, GenAI, entity resolution, and Deep Learning to create optimal Consumer-facing menus for Merchants.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to build a machine learning-driven product roadmap.
• Own the modeling life cycle end-to-end, including feature creation, model development and deployment, experimentation, monitoring, explainability, and model maintenance.
• Develop production machine learning solutions for both batch and real-time applications to enhance the Merchant experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models with business impact and shipping ML solutions to production.
• M.S. or PhD. in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Math, Operations Research, Physics, or other quantitative fields.
• Expertise in applied ML for computer vision, NLP, deep learning, embeddings, and LLMs.
• Ability to communicate technical details to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong machine learning background in Python; experience with Spark, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• Familiarity with Kotlin/Scala.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with experimentation and graph-based models.
• A growth-minded and collaborative mindset.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Commuter benefit match
• Mental health program