Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Favor
2 days a week in office
Contact-free food and essential order service
Job no longer available
Contact-free food and essential order service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a more connected community to get anything delivered through an affordable and personalized service.
Role
Who you are
- A bachelor's or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of combined experience in machine learning engineering and software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure and pipelines (or equivalent experience)
- Proficiency in Python and cloud deployments
- Comfort using cloud permission models (ie. AWS IAM)
- Experience with JVM-based stack and languages like Java and Kotlin
- Experience with the technology of AWS, Airflow, Docker & Jenkins
- Ability to operate with minimal direction to drive large-scale initiatives
- Can expertly design efficient, clear, robust, maintainable, and scalable domain-level solutions
- Ability to analyze new technologies and their impact when incorporating them into a system
- Deep experience with IaC tooling such as terraform, helm, etc
- You love to write clean, well-tested code (test-first or test-driven development approaches are a plus)
- You have collaborated with data science teams in the past
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to architect, implement, and optimize machine learning systems and contribute to the success of our data science initiatives
- You will report to the Vice President of Data and collaborate with the Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure teams
- Understand the steps and methodology data scientists follow, and build tools to support and accelerate their process to create value
- Collaborate with engineers and data scientists to build systems that will deliver data science solutions to the rest of the organization
- Develop internal tools to improve dataset creation, model training, and deployment
- Build robust monitoring and alerting systems around the models and tools we use to ensure stability
- Identify potential projects that can help the team and organization work more efficiently together
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
More and more people are looking to get things delivered fast, and businesses are trying to find inventive ways to meet the demand and get people’s purchases to them as quickly as possible. Favor solves this problem, with an on-demand delivery service that depends on “runners” to get products to customers quickly.
Customers can browse on the Favor app and select items from their list or input items from other stores in the delivery zone, and Favor runners will collect the item and deliver it within an hour. For customers in a hurry, this is obviously appealing. While many on-demand delivery services struggle to scale, Favor itself has managed to scale its operations across Texas and expanded into Philadelphia in mid 2022.
This centralization has given the company an advantage over competitors who have since gone out of business, but it isn’t yet clear if other competitors will imitate Favor's approach to gain market share. The company faces strong challenges from deep-pocketed rivals like DoorDash and Uber Eats.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2017
$22m
SERIES B
Mar 2015
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $35m
Company benefits
- We offer premium health, vision, dental, life and 401(k) options. We go beyond the basics with complimentary meals, commuter benefits, dependent care, and of course - Favor delivery credit and H-E-B discounts
- With a fitness center in the office, we equip you with ways to stay healthy and happy. Any complimentary meals and snacks always feature health options
- Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through beer Fridays, quarterly company-wide events, and regular connection opportunities
- Our HQ, the Eastside Tech Hub, is located in the heart of East Austin and boasts multiple lounge areas, a coffee bar, library, fully stocked kitchen, wellness center with bouldering wall, and more
- We offer unlimited PTO for salary employees and ample vacation time to all team members. We empower you to live your best life and do your best work!
- We encourage personal growth and education through regular Learning Labs taught by internal team members and external facilitators
Company values
- Keep running - We have lofty goals and the only way to achieve them is to hustle through the challenges. Don’t stop ‘til Tokyo!
- Good vibes - We bring our best selves every day. No matter what comes at us, we attack our work with positivity and resilience
- Own your sh*t - Your position here is valuable and you were chosen for a reason. Be purposeful with your actions and hold yourself accountable
- Community first - We’re connected to the people around us. We don’t just run in someone else’s shoes, we also know the path they took and how they got there
Company HQ
Holly, Austin, TX
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Founders
Keith Duncan
(CEO, not founder)Began working at the company as SVP of Sales & Business Development and was promoted to CRO within 4 years. They then worked as CRO at Orchard before returning to Favor as CEO in 2023.
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