Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Intercom

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Plus Equity

SQL
AWS
Senior level
Dublin
Intercom

The modern customer communications platform

Open for applications

Intercom

The modern customer communications platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseCommunicationCustomer serviceSaaSAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Plus Equity

SQL
AWS
Senior level
Dublin

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseCommunicationCustomer serviceSaaSAutomation

Company mission

Intercom's mission is to make internet business personal.

Role

Who you are

  • Excellent pragmatic engineering skills
  • Familiar with tools used to write, test, deploy, debug and monitor software
  • Comfort owning features from inception to outcome
  • 5+ years experience in a production environment, with contributions to the design and architecture of distributed systems
  • We’re looking for engineers who can confidently put ML-powered features in production
  • Strong communication skills, both within engineering teams and across disciplines
  • Excellent programming skills
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • BSc in Computer Science, or similar knowledge

Desirable

  • Deep knowledge of AWS services
  • ML Ops experience
  • Large scale computation experience
  • Track record shipping ML products
  • Experience in a research environment
  • Algorithmic optimisation experience
  • Advanced education in CS, ML, Math, Stats, or similar
  • Practical stats knowledge (experiment design, dealing with confounding, etc)
  • Experience in an applicable ML area. E.g. NLP, Deep learning, Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, clustering
  • Visualization, data skills, SQL, matplotlib, etc

What the job involves

  • Intercom’s Machine Learning team is responsible for defining new ML features, researching appropriate algorithms and technologies, and rapidly getting first prototypes in our customers’ hands
  • We are an extremely product focussed team. We work in partnership with Product and Design functions of teams we support
  • Our team's dedicated ML product engineers enable us to move to production fast, often shipping to beta in weeks after a successful offline test
  • Identify areas where ML can create value for our customers
  • Contribute to finding the right ML framing of a product problem
  • Working with teammates and Product and Design stakeholders
  • Taking algorithms which work offline, and putting them in a production setting
  • Deeply understand and modify as needed
  • Solve hard scalability and optimization problems
  • Run production ML infrastructure, evolve it over time
  • Build new data infrastructure to enable exploration
  • Establish processes for large scale data analyses, model development, validation, and implementation
  • Work with teammates to measure and iterate on algorithm performance
  • Partner deeply with the rest of team, and others, to build excellent ML products

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

If you've ever seen a chat pop up on a business' website, it was probably provided by Intercom. Though ubiquitous now, it used to be a major challenge for companies to communicate swiftly with their customers. Intercom's Messenger allows a company to instantly reach out with human or automated support, improving customer service and greatly increasing conversion rates for sales.

While the Messenger is its most visible product, Intercom provides a service similar to Salesforce, as an advanced customer relationship management system. However, Intercom doesn't see Salesforce as a major rival, as Intercom specialises in the online market while Salesforce is more suited for traditional retail. Intercom is used by more than 25,000 businesses including Amazon, Meta and Atlassian, and reaches an estimated 600 million end users monthly.

Intercom has primarily served the US and Irish markets but has been expanding its presence globally in recent years. Despite having a commanding market position, it is continuing to develop its product, most recently delivering a major functionality upgrade to its Messenger software, greatly increasing its ability to carry out ticketed support requests.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

41% female employees

-7% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Mar 2018

$125m

SERIES D

Apr 2016

$50m

SERIES C

Total funding: $240.8m

Company benefits

  • We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
  • Generous public transport allowance for commuting
  • Wellness programme that allows you to expense gym and other sports activities up to £90 quarterly
  • Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
  • Open vacation policy and flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
  • Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work
  • MacBooks are our standard, but we’re happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done

Company values

  • We're optimistic & positive
  • We obsess about our customers' success
  • We're confident, yet humble
  • We think big and start small
  • We go further together
  • Make every day count

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Eoghan McCabe

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously CEO of Contrast and Exceptional. Is also the Chairman of Intercom.

Des Traynor

(Co-founder & CSO)

Previously worked in software development and is an expert in User Experience (has lectured on the topic and was UX Lead at Contrast)

Ciaran Lee

(Co-founder)

Previously Lead Engineer at RateMyArea.com and CTO of Exceptional. Was Intercom's CTO until 2021.


People progressing

Joined as a Manager in Product Analytics. Made it to VP of Research & Data Science after 6 years and 3 promotions

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