Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Entity Understanding - NYC
Rokt, United States
Job Description
About Rokt
Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, helping companies seize the full potential of every transaction moment to grow revenue and acquire new customers at scale. Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, Staples, Lands’ End, and HelloFresh are among the more than 2,500 leading global businesses and advertisers that use Rokt's solutions to drive more value through every transaction by offering highly relevant messages to their customers at the moment they are most likely to convert.
With our December 2022 secondary transaction, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 Billion. We are expanding rapidly and globally operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with the largest office in NYC and a major Ramp;D hub in Sydney. With 50% annual growth and a vibrant company culture, Rokt has been listed in ‘Great Places to Work’ in the US and Australia. Our award-winning culture is guided by our eight core values: smart with humility, own the outcomes, force for good, conquer new frontiers, enjoy the ride, raise the bar, communicate with impact, and disagree then commit. These values help us attract, engage, and develop the right talent around the globe and ensure we foster an environment that helps us all do our best work. Keen to join a fast-growing company and a vibrant culture? Learn more at rokt.com.
The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are expanding rapidly in our major Ramp;D centers in NYC and Sydney. We are passionate about using intelligent systems to improve the transaction moment for retailers everywhere. Come join us and build the future!
The Role
We're seeking a passionate Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a specific focus on Content/Entity Understanding. This role requires a deep understanding of common machine learning techniques and industrial experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for content understanding, sequence and graph learning. As part of our team, you will contribute to the design and development of cutting-edge ML models, improve customer relevancy and boost revenue growth.
Responsibilities
- Understand, analyze, and refine various data inputs to optimize entity understanding across a range of applications.
- Design and implement state-of-the-art machine learning models for entity understanding and embedding generation.
- Collaborate with ML Engineers on embedding-based solutions, e.g. similarity search.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest academic research and industry trends in machine learning, natural language processing/computer vision, and entity understanding to innovate and implement new, efficient solutions
- Collaborate with leadership to uplevel the ML tech stack and improve the performance of the overall ML system
Requirements
- Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
- Prior experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for content understanding, sequence and graph learning. Experience on NLP and Computer Vision is a plus.
- In-depth understanding of Deep Learning algorithms and Transfer Learning
- Experience with deep learning framework such as PyTorch, TensorFlow
- Publication(s) in top-tier AI/ML/NLP academic conferences is a plus
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Benefits
- Safety is our highest priority. We actively invest in the growth of our people and the strengthening of our communities. Our NYC office is 100% vaccinated to keep our employees and community safe and healthy. We require all Rokt’stars and anyone else who will be onsite at the Rokt NYC officeclients, contractors, vendors, and suppliersto show proof of vaccination and their booster shot.
- Work with the greatest talent in town. Our recruitment process is tough but diligent. We’re constantly aiming to implement our value of raise the bar and set high standards for our Rokt’stars. This is essential in our high-performing, high-grow culture where we strive to bring in the brightest and best talent. Our teams thrive by challenging the status quo and we encourage all of our teams to unleash their desire to achieve something bigger.