Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Muck Rack

$140-170k

SQL
Elasticsearch
Senior level
Remote in Canada, US
Muck Rack

Public Relations software

Open for applications

Muck Rack

Public Relations software

201-500 employees

B2BMarketingCommunicationSaaSMedia

Open for applications

$140-170k

SQL
Elasticsearch
Senior level
Remote in Canada, US

201-500 employees

B2BMarketingCommunicationSaaSMedia

Company mission

To transform the way companies engage with the media.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years total professional experience building Machine Learning products within user-facing software apps
  • A capacity for a high degree of autonomy and out-of-the-box thinking
  • A commitment to collaborating closely with other engineers and across functions
  • Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data
  • Experience with text modeling, NLP, and large language models
  • Experience serving GPU-intensive models in large-scale production environments
  • Interest in search
  • Interest in journalism, news, media or social media

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our quickly growing team and make a big impact
  • As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Tech org, you’ll work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and designers, to develop Machine Learning technologies which help simplify the jobs of our users
  • You’ll work on major technical projects with large data volumes, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes
  • Our technology team is focused on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience
  • Perform an analysis to make a recommendation to other team members as to whether machine learning technologies can be used to solve a given problem, and how best to integrate the technologies with the rest of Muck Rack’s application ecosystem
  • Research and evaluate new ML Engineering methodologies, approaches, and solutions
  • Test, deploy, and monitor supervised or unsupervised learning models
  • Write queries (SQL, elastic search) to grab the right set of data to solve their problem
  • Build tools to enable other data scientists to scale their knowledge and increase impact
  • Interpret and communicate analytic results to analytical and non-analytical business partners and executive decision makers
  • Participate in code reviews and model reviews of their teammates

Application process

  • 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
  • 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
  • Take-home coding assignment (2 hours max)
  • Peer interviews, including a 30 min code review discussion
  • Final call(s) with executive team member(s)

Our take

Muck Rack was founded in 2009 as a platform for businesses to connect with journalists. As of 2022, tens of thousands of journalists have profiles on Muck Rack that are available for businesses such as Google, Pfizer, and Duolingo to browse and employ writers from.

The nature of journalism has evolved since Muck Rack’s founding, with social media and digital outlets taking demand away from printed publications. As the landscape changes, Muck Rack has expanded their services to include a Public Relations Management platform.

It’s moves like this, as well as their shift into being a “distributed” business (hybrid or remote) that has ignited a renewed confidence in Muck Rack from investors. Though the company has been bootstrapped since its founding, Muck Rack received its first outside funding to the sum of $180 million in 2022, exemplifying how important investors deem their platform to be.

With its substantial funding, the future is bright for Muck Rack, though they will have to think carefully about how to advance the platform. Digital content can go viral in a matter of hours, and the creators are not always journalists.

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Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

31% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Fully distributed - Much Rack are committed to a permanent, fully remote environment, core to the way they do business.
  • Geo-neutral compensation - Much Rack believe in equitable pay regardless of where you live.
  • Time off - 4+ weeks off-the-grid vacation, sick and mental health days, and company holidays.
  • Insurance - Health, vision, and dental coverage paid at 100% for individuals
  • Retirement planning - MUck Rack contribute 3% of your annual salary to your 401k automatically.
  • Paid parental leave - 8 weeks fully paid bonding for all parents + up to 8 weeks fully paid recovery from childbirth.
  • Full WFH set up - Including monthly phone/internet reimbursement and coworking stipend.
  • Learning & development - Take advantage of unlimited access to learning platforms and regular training opportunities.
  • No meeting Fridays - Take control of your calendar, and make time for reflection and deep-focus tasks

Company values

  • Customer devotion - Muck Rack go the extra mile for their customers — journalists and PR professionals around the world.
  • Resilience - Muck Rack don’t shy away from big challenges. They keep pursuing their goals until they achieve them.
  • Ownership - Muck Racks employees all act as the CEOs of their projects and their responsibilities, taking ownership for their actions and results.
  • Transparency - Muck Rack believes that sharing actionable, timely and honest information with employees and customers is essential.

Company HQ

Brickell, Miami, FL

Leadership

Currently CEO & Co-Founder of the Shorty Awards for social media. Previously CEO of RadioTail and Chairman of Halenet.

Currently Co-Founder and Producer at the Shorty Awards. Previously Founder and CTO of Innofinity.

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