Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Notifications/Feed

Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network connecting neighbors, public agencies, and businesses. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build data-intensive products, develop machine learning models, and collaborate with product and data science teams to enhance their platform.

Responsibilities:

• You will be part of a scrappy and impactful team building data-intensive products, working with data and features, building machine learning models, and sharing insights around data and experiments
• Collect and gather datasets to build machine learning (ML) models that make real-time decisions for the Nextdoor platform
• Analyze datasets and use important features to build low-latency models for decisions that need to be made quickly
• Deploy ML models into production environments and integrate them into the product
• Run and analyze live user-facing experiments to iterate on model quality by measuring the impact on business metrics
• Collaborate with other engineers and data scientists to create optimal experiences on the platform
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team-building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture

Requirements:

• 4+ years of industry experience in applying machine learning at scale
• Experience with recommendation systems, deep learning models, feed/notification relevance, knowledge graphs, Ads, or NLP at scale is required
• Experience building ML models for consumer-facing products
• Proven engineering skills, with experience in writing and maintaining high-quality production code
• Ability to work with and analyze large amounts of data
• Ability to succeed in a dynamic startup environment
• Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
• B.S. in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Computational Biology or a related field