Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Lemon8 Recommendation

$133,843 - $330,764/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

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About the position

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Lemon8 will play a crucial role in enhancing and personalizing the user experience for a lifestyle content community. This position involves utilizing advanced machine learning and deep learning technologies to optimize various product surfaces, collaborating with product and operations teams, and staying updated with industry trends to ensure Lemon8's recommendation systems remain cutting-edge.

Responsibilities

• Utilize cutting-edge deep learning and machine learning technologies to enhance and personalize the Lemon8 user experience.
• Collaborate closely with the Lemon8 product and operations teams to experiment with and refine ML models across various product surfaces.
• Apply data-driven methodologies and leverage unique data properties to continuously improve user engagement and consumption experiences.
• Operate in a high-impact environment with rapid experimentation cycles and swift deployment of experimental results.
• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in recommendation systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of industry experience applying machine learning methods in areas such as recommender systems, ads ranking, reinforcement learning, or graph representation learning.
• Strong understanding of machine learning approaches and algorithms.
• Proficiency with big data technologies such as Hive, Hadoop, and Spark.
• Hands-on experience in building data processing pipelines and large-scale machine learning systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Previous experience building end-to-end machine learning systems.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
• Approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company match
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Short/Long term Disability insurance
• Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
• 10 paid holidays per year
• 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
• 10 paid sick days per year
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave
• 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
• 401K company match
• Gym and cellphone service reimbursements