Senior Applied Scientist, Advertising
Etsy
Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. Etsy, Inc.'s 'house of brands' portfolio has expanded to now include four individually distinct ecommerce brands – Etsy, fashion resale marketplace Depop, musical instrument marketplace Reverb, and Brazil-based handmade goods marketplace Elo7. As an Etsy employee, you’ll tackle unique problems alongside talented coworkers committed to Keeping Commerce Human. We're large enough that you'll focus on meaningful, complex challenges, but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact.
Job Description
Etsy is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to join the Applied ML (AML) advertising team. In the AML org, Applied Scientists work closely with product teams to develop custom machine-learning models that can drive product vision and customer impact. We are looking for individuals who are product and delivery-driven, and are passionate about making ML innovations in digital advertising to help improve the Etsy buyer/seller experience.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone interested in building user-centric ML systems for a two-sided marketplace with 90+ million buyers, 4+ million sellers, and hundreds of millions of unique, handmade, vintage listings. Etsy sellers use Etsy ads for advertising their products and growing their business. Etsy Ads optimizes sellers’ budgets to advertise their listings in the places on Etsy where they perform best. The work on the Ads team includes building machine learning systems we use for ad ranking, bidding, budget pacing, and dynamic ad experiences on Etsy.com and the Etsy app.
About the Role
Here’s a taste of the problems we’re solving:
- How can we ensure that the right ads are put in front of the right buyers?
- How can we help our sellers set bids to achieve the highest rate of return?
- How do we maintain a pipeline that scales for our 90+ million buyers and sellers?
- How can we detect bad actors in our system to protect sellers?
- How can we help our sellers to allocate budget?
What You'll Do:
- Work cross functionally with product engineering teams and communicate your ideas and model capabilities to product managers
- Push the state of the art and apply the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to improve buyer and seller experiences on Etsy
- Prototype, optimize, and productionize large-scale ML models that help deliver key results
- Conduct A/B experiments to validate the effectiveness of ML models and pipelines
- Work closely with product managers, ML engineers, full-stack engineers, and designers on product teams to deliver content to tens of millions of users
- Share impactful and innovative work in the wider ML research community, including presenting at top-tier ML/DS conferences such as: KDD, WSDM, WWW, Recsys, etc.
We are considering remote candidates based in the United States for this position. Etsy offers three different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team: Flex mode for candidates who are comfortable traveling to an office location 2+ times per week, Remote mode, and Office-based mode. Learn more about our flexible work modes and vaccination policy here.
Qualifications
Basic requirements:
- You have a track record of applying machine learning techniques in addressing real-world problems
- You have focused expertise in one of the following fields: natural language processing, image processing, reinforcement learning, deep learning,
- You have solid software development skills. You are comfortable with using git, Linux environments, Docker, and other tools for writing robust, production-ready code.
- You can communicate ideas to stakeholders and have worked in large, cross-functional teams with scientists, software engineers, and product managers.
Preferred requirements:
- You have published at peer-reviewed conferences, such as ICML, KDD, SIGIR, WSDM, etc. or you have participated in the industrial conferences like Spark Summit.
- You have experience using Google Cloud Platform or other cloud platforms.
- You have experience in building production advertising, search, recommendations, or general e-commerce systems.
Additional Information
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As you've hopefully seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So write to us and tell us what you're all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
For U.S. roles only:
Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you'll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We're open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska. For candidates who will work remotely from Colorado, visit this link for information related to Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
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