Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Zip

LLM

$180-250k

+ Equity

Python
Java
Tensorflow
C++
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Zip

Business procurement software

Open for applications

Zip

Business procurement software

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsAutomationProcurement

Open for applications

$180-250k

+ Equity

Python
Java
Tensorflow
C++
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsAutomationProcurement

Company mission

Zip's mission is to bring a consumer grade user experience to B2B purchasing.

Role

Who you are

  • 4+ years experiences designing and developing Machine Learning models
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS/ML or related fields
  • Proficiency in software development languages (Python/Java/C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills
  • Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices (e.g., training/serving, feature engineering, feature/model selection, imbalance data) and algorithms (e.g., deep learnings, optimization)
  • Experience with Tensorflow or PyTorch
  • Industry experience in designing and productionizing end-to-end machine learning models (e.g., search ranking, recommendation, personalization, NLP)
  • Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g, search, recommendation)
  • Familiarity with LLM and GenAI concepts and use cases
  • Strong product / business sense and can drive product decisions
  • Great cross-functional collaboration skills

Desirable

  • Experiences with NLP, LLM, chatbot, or RAG development
  • Experiences with designing and productizing ML systems from the ground up
  • Experiences with model serving systems such as TF Serving or Torch Serve

What the job involves

  • As a Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer on our AI team, you will further accelerate our new AI product development as well as improve our AI model accuracy
  • You’ll work very closely with other engineers and cross-functional partners (e.g. PMs, designers, and sales team) to identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for Zip AI products and models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact
  • Some examples include: Zip AI: AI assistant, document extraction, risk detection, intake automation, vendor consolidation, and RFx survey generation
  • Zip just launched a suite of AI functionalities (https://ziphq.com/ai) in various areas such as AI document extraction, AI assistant, and AI risk detection. We view AI as a key strategic investment to realize our mission of helping enterprises procure faster, smarter and safer

Our take

Business-to-business purchases are a far more difficult process than the experience of buying goods and services as a consumer. In large enterprises ordering a piece of equipment or hiring agency expertise kicks off a laborious process requiring sign offs from a multitude of decision makers before any purchase can take place. Zip exists to solve this problem with a procurement workflow platform which is aimed at simplifying enterprise procurement functions.

Using its platform procurement teams can initiate a purchase which is then routed across all relevant departments in a streamlined and transparent way. It can also automate the issuing of purchase orders, invoice processing, and payments. This solution to a painful problem for all large companies has seen Zip adopted by a large and growing customer base which includes the likes of Canva, Databricks and Udemy, with over $1 billion a month in spend is approved over the platform.

Zip has raised significant capital which has aided its launch of Zip Premier, a suite of new enterprise capabilities and a low-code integration tool. The company is also expanding geographically, opening a new office in Dallas. While Zip is beginning to face competition from procurement automation platforms Keelvar and Focal Point, these moves, continued updates to its product range and solid funding seem likely to cement its leading position in the procurement management space.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

May 2023

$100m

SERIES C

May 2022

$43m

SERIES B

Total funding: $180.9m

Company benefits

  • 📈 Start-up equity
  • 💸 401k plan
  • 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage
  • 🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners
  • 🚍  Commuter benefit
  • 🚠 Team building events & happy hours
  • 🌴 Flexible PTO
  • 💻 Shiny new Apple equipment
  • 🪑 Generous office stipend for remote employees

Company values

  • We take ownership and leave things better than we found them
  • We communicate openly, frequently, and transparently, even when it's hard
  • We listen to customers to solve problems and build loyalty
  • We learn quickly and operate with an underdog mindset
  • We appreciate our teammates and celebrate achievements
  • One Zip - we collaborate and win as a company and team

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Was previously Product Manager at Airbnb. Before that they co-founded FlightCar and Drinking Water for India.

Was Head of Engineering at AirBnB Experiences. Before that was a Course instructor in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.

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