[Hiring] Machine Learning Engineer III @Mapbox

Role Description

As a Machine Learning Engineer III on the Routing Cost team, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of highly trafficked recommendation systems for our routing cost engine. Your technical contributions will include:

• Lead the engineering team(s) to execute end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation organization (~80 engineers).
• Design and build new ML and data pipelines, as well as optimizing existing ML and data pipelines.
• Build tools for automated quality assurance and data exploration.
• Leverage geospatial algorithms to optimize pipelines, as well as creating automated tuning and outlier detection algorithms.
• Partner with data scientists to make improvements to our models for determining patterns in movement and/or traffic.
• Mentor colleagues and participate in code and design reviews.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of backend and ML experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience showcasing expertise and a strong track record in the engineering field.
• Extensive experience with Python, distributed processing pipelines (Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Dask), and very large datasets.
• Extensive experience with cloud and infrastructure services.
• Strong passion for clean code and robust architecture.
• Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams.
• Strong written and vocal communication skills.
• Data informed mindset.

Requirements

• Drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization.
• Own the technical vision, lead the strategy and guide the team to execute towards building the future of our routing cost engine.
• Care deeply about your customers and their problems.
• Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn and grow from them.
• Believe in the value of data informed decision making.

Benefits

• Supportive health care.
• Parental leave.
• Flexibility for personal matters.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.