Staff Machine Learning Engineer I, Ads Machine

Company DescriptionEtsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.**Job Description**:**What’s the role?**Etsy is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the Ads ML advertising team. Our team develops 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.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?As the Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for building user-centric ML systems for a two-sided marketplace with 90+ million buyers, 6+ million sellers, and hundreds of millions of unique, handmade, vintage listings. Etsy sellers use Etsy ads for advertising their products and growing their business. Do you find joy in optimizing sellers’ budgets to advertise their listings in the places on Etsy where they perform best? If so, this could be the perfect match.**What does the day-to-day look like?**- Work cross functionally with product engineering teams and communicate your ideas and model capabilities to product managers- 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- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law**Qualifications**:**Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are**:- You are an expert in one of the following fields: natural language processing, image processing, reinforcement learning, deep learning,- You have extensive experience training, deploying, monitoring, debugging and iterating on production machine learning systems.- You can successfully create requirements and lead your team from design through to delivery.- You write understandable, testable code and you have an eye towards maintainability.- You care about the implications of your work on end users.Additional Information**What's Next**If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've 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 tell us what you're all about.**Our Promise**At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.