Machine Learning Scientist - IC 2 - Ireland

at  Overstock Ireland Ltd

WHO WE ARE:

Beyond is a leading online furniture and home furnishings retailer, headquartered in the USA, with an innovative Software Development base, in Sligo that build and support the e-commerce platforms for our global retail sites.

WHAT WE DO:

We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence driven and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.
The Senior Machine Learning Scientist will develop algorithms that guide our customers through an engaging, frictionless product discovery experience. In this role you will, use Deep Learning and NLP to build models for projects in online search, ranking (LTR) and recommendations. With the objective of achieving a best in class product discovery experience driven by A/B-tested machine learning algorithms.
Our Machine Learning scientists have the opportunity to build cutting-edge e-commerce technologies in all these areas and apply their ideas in different products across our platform. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about machine learning and have a track record as production quality engineers.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of three years of industry experience as a machine learning scientist or a data scientist
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills. You are familiar with techniques in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision and or related fields.
• Strong technical and programming skills.
• Excellent collaborator and communicator and are eager to learn and grow!

SKILLS

• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop/Spark
• Previous history of writing and reviewing technical papers
• Ability to come up with creative solutions and quickly prototype them
• Strong desire to collaborate and develop new technologies
• Willingness to learn new tools and flexibility to adapt to different deployment pipelines
• Strong communication abilities and willingness to lead and inspire other engineers

EDUCATION

Master degree in in computer science, natural language processing, deep learning, computer vision or a related field. Ph.D. degree preferred.

• Design and implement core machine learning algorithms used by different product teams, included but not limited to:
• search ranking, recommender systems, natural language processing, computer vision, deep learning, fraud and abuse detection, advertising technologies, personalization and marketing,
• Design A/B tests across various products to validate the performance of machine learning models
• Implement machine learning models in production using various in house and on cloud technologies available to the machine learning team
• Report results of machine learning models in peer-reviewed papers and technical manuals.
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management.
• Follow legal policies as directed.