Senior Software Engineer, Applied Machine Learning

SmartNews, Inc. (Tokyo, 日本) フォロー 21日前

Every day, SmartNews analyzes millions of URLs to deliver the top articles that matter in near-real time to millions of users around the world. Our News Ranking team, along with our AI Foundation team, works on a range of recommendation and optimization problems, e.g. search ranking, collaborative filtering, personalized recommendation, diversification to deliver the world's quality information to the people who need it.

Responsibilities

This is a hybrid of system engineering and machine learning role:

Write server-side production code for applications that are robust and efficient
Develop machine learning algorithms, combining with rule-based optimization to deliver improvement in product metrics
Build recommendation and ranking algorithms for news articles
Develop toolings to make ML engineers to be more productive
Lead medium sized projects to improve news ranking

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of experience in designing and implementing machine learning algorithms, and applying them to real world problems
Solid Machine Learning background and deep understanding of certain domain of machine learning techniques, especially in natural language processing, recommendation systems, computer visions
Strong software development skills with proven record of shipping changes to production that improved product metrics with machine learning technologies
Able to have deep end-to-end understanding of sophisticated ranking systems and can proactively detect problems and make improvement suggestions
Good written and spoken communication skills, can work across functional teams
Expert coding abilities in multiple programming languages (e.g. Java, C++, Python, Scala)
MS or BS in computer science, mathematics, physics or other quantitative fields