• 5-8 years applied ML experience
• Previous background in a senior/staff role (data science, software development or academic)
• Significant, demonstrated impact that your work has had on the product and/or the teams
• Strong programming skills
• Experience as the primary technical leader for a team
• Strong communication skills, both within engineering teams and across disciplines
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Typically have advanced education in ML or related field (e.g. MSc)
• Scientific thinking skills

Desirable

• Play an active role in hiring, mentoring and career development of other engineers
• Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
• Identify areas where ML can create value for our customers
• Identify the right ML framing of product problems
• Working with teammates and Product and Design stakeholders
• Conduct exploratory data analysis and research
• Deeply understand the problem area
• Research and identify the right algorithms and tools
• Being pragmatic, but innovating right to the cutting-edge when needed
• Perform offline evaluation to gather evidence an algorithm will work
• Work with engineers to bring prototypes to production
• Plan, measure & socialize learnings to inform iteration
• Partner deeply with the rest of team, and others, to build excellent ML products