Staff Machine Learning Engineer, 7-Eleven

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced recommendation systems and algorithms.
• Architect, design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that serve real-time recommendations across Digital apps, Marketing, etc.
• Build and deploy high-impact, robust ML pipelines, including data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, and deployment
• Conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring models are optimized for both performance and scalability across multiple regions and product areas
• Ability to conduct thorough exploratory data analysis, identify patterns and trends, and draw meaningful insights.
• Learn and partner with peers across multiple disciplines, such as Data Engineering, Product, and Platform.
• Monitor and maintain production models, ensuring their continued performance and reliability
• Evaluate and grow technical talent throughout the AI team, with a focus on subject matter expertise.
• Represent the AI COE in cross-functional meetings with other technical teams.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and learn new technologies/libraries/frameworks.
• Deliver on time with a high bar on quality of research, innovation, and engineering

Requirements & Skills:

• 6+ years of experience working in a technical role, with 2 to 3 years in a senior technical role
• 3+ years of experience building AI models and solutions from research to production, using common ML frameworks like Tensorflow and PyTorch.
• 2+ years of experience reviewing and refining architecture and conducting code reviews
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of engineers in a technical lead capacity
• Experience with major cloud platforms and building and deploying scalable ML systems.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering/Math, or relevant experience

Extra Credit:

• MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience building personalization models for CRM and digital apps/websites.
• Experience building complex customer segments in retail.
• Experience delivering production-quality systems leveraging emerging technologies.