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Machine Learning Engineer - Delivery Excellence

DoorDash
San Francisco, CA
Full-time

About the Role

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will have the opportunity to leverage our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to develop inference and ML models that impact millions of users across our three audiences and tackle our most challenging business problems.

You will work with other engineers, analysts, and product managers to develop and iterate on models to help us grow our business and provide the best service quality for our customers.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

  • Build statistical and ML models that run in production to help enhance the consumer experience by reducing cancellations, pickup waiting times, delivery lateness, missing and incorrect items and non fulfilled orders
  • Own the modeling life cycle end-to-end including feature creation, model development and prototyping, experimentation, monitoring and explainability, and model maintenance
  • Being exposed to new opportunities where delivery quality can be used as a lever for demand shaping, search ranking, customer segmentation, etc
  • Mentor and uplevel a talented team of ML Engineers
  • You can find out more on our ML blog post

We’re excited about you because

  • High-energy and confident you keep the mission in mind, take ideas and help them grow using data and rigorous testing, show evidence of progress and then double down
  • You’re an owner driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
  • Humble you’re willing to jump in and you’re open to feedback
  • Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!
  • Growth-minded you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
  • Desire for impact ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team

Experience

  • 1+ years of industry experience post PhD or 3+ years of industry experience post graduate degree of developing machine learning models with business impact
  • M.S., or PhD. in Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or other related quantitative fields
  • Demonstrated expertise with programming languages, e.g. python, SciKit Learn, Lightgbm, Spark MLLib, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc
  • Deep understanding of complex systems such as Marketplaces, and domain knowledge in two or more of the following : Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Operations Research, Forecasting and Experimentation
  • Experience of shipping production-grade ML models and optimization systems, and designing sophisticated experimentation techniques
  • You are located or are planning to relocate to San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, or Seattle, WA
  • 30+ days ago
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