Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

Advertising is a critical component of the ecommerce ecosystem and provides a critical revenue stream to the company. At Chewy, the Sponsored Ads team is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help launch various innovative ads-offerings for Chewy onsite and offsite sponsored ads.

As a member to the Sponsored Advertising team, youll be part of core technical team and will influence technical strategy across product search and discovery relevance and ranking prediction and auction of large selection of sponsored ads offering onsite and offsite. Youll be at forefront of driving technology-driven business impact. Machine learning and deep-learning models will influence selection relevance ranking click-through prediction modelling auction-dynamics keywords recommendation campaign optimization ads channel performance ads performance maximization and wide array of engaging data-science latest methodologies including but not limited to LLMs and generative AI.

Sponsored Ads creates a win-win ecosystem for shoppers, brand owners, and Chewy. Shoppers are offered a range of alternate options to help them choose better and learn about new products, new brands, new promotions, and different price points. Brand owners and advertisers get to showcase their product offerings in the front row for their target audience, proud pet owners, and maximize their reach.

Come be part of the Sponsored Ads teams impactful journey at Chewy.

What Youll Do

• You will deploy machine learning and data-science to simplify shopping experience for pet-parents to maximize reach and discovery of new products of Chewy vendors and helping create a win-win ecosystem.
• Directly influence and collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve solutions using applied science to improve selection ranking relevance deal-offerings click through prediction models dynamic bidding and auction algorithms for Chewy onsite and offsite advertising solutions.
• You will lead new models from ideation to experimentation and eventually to production delivery to improve Chewy products offerings and advance applied science applications.
• Publish research papers in leading ML/AI Advertising conferences solving problems for scale using innovative modelling.
• Establish high bar on model performance establish applied-science implementation best practices and mentoring junior scientists.
• Deploy solutions at Chewy scale improving overall customer engagement and value for Pet Parents.
• Formalize proposals and communicating verbally and in writing to Chewy Senior Leadership and business customers with varying levels of technical knowledge educating them about our research as well as sharing insights and recommendations.

What Youll Need

• An advanced degree (M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience) in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or related field, or proven experience for at least 3 years designing optimization and machine learning solutions for large-scale applications.
• Ability to understand and apply sophisticated mathematics and DS methodologies.
• Experience in building distributed pipeline tuning optimizing and evaluation.
• Experience with Sponsored Ads or Advertisement domain.
• Experience with multiple techniques that include Predictive Models, Time Series, and Regression, Linear Programming, and Classification, Search Ranking, or large-scale embeddings.
• Ability to translate complex data sets and research into simple business recommendations.

Bonus

• Experience in e-commerce or retail.
• Prior experience in Advertising systems is a huge plus.
• Experience with ML Services in AWS SageMaker Personalize or equivalent.

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR.

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The base salary range for this role is $186,500 - $297,500. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidates relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08 positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits such as medical, Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital, indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR.

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