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About the Role
About You
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Economics, Statistics, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of industry experience building and shipping production machine learning systems at scale.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or analytics teams.
- Strong expertise in ML fundamentals: ads systems, marketplace incentives systems, ranking systems, recommendation algorithms, retrieval, personalization.
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines, feature engineering, and model serving infrastructure.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Scala.
- Familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, XGBoost, etc.)
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave; 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the US, UK, and Europe—bringing millions together to shop, sell, and connect around the things they love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today. We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live shopping from bags to beauty, comics to coins, sneakers to streetwear, and vintage to vinyl. With over 250+ categories, including electronics, sports and Pokémon cards, fashion, plants, jewelry and more—we’ve got it all! And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.