About Route

Route is helping people discover and celebrate the world's brands through a completely reimagined e-commerce marketplace that directly connects and empowers both consumers and brands. Route’s unique platform takes a holistic approach to online shopping, rethinking the consumer experience from discovery to delivery via the Route app, while offering a suite of features that provides merchants the tools necessary to enhance the overlooked post-purchase experience. Since launching in 2018, Route has built a network of over 1.5 million app users and 7,000 merchants. The company has offices in Lehi, UT and Los Angeles, CA. For more information go to route.com

About the Role 

The Discover team is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to bring their fresh ideas to Route. As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Discover Team, will be responsible for developing new models and  machine learning architectures, keeping up to date with the state-of-the-art machine learning technologies, and working with others to bring those technologies to actual products. 

Route is an engineering company. We need our engineers to bring fresh ideas, be excited to take on new problems across the stack, and embrace the startup culture where we must be comfortable being uncomfortable at times. We aspire to hire the best people with a broad set of technical skills, representing a globally diverse audience, and bringing a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and cultures. 

Responsibilities:

• Help in the design, implementation, and improvement of our most demanding ML and AI projects
• Influence project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Serve as a key resource to team members on engineering best practices, design, and coding standards
• Embody a culture of innovation, transparency, and radical candor
• Work with the team to improve our recommendation engine

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Solid understanding of Computer Science / Machine Learning fundamentals
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
• Experience developing, optimizing/tuning, deploying, and scaling ML models
• Experience with one or more general purpose languages, e.g. Go, Python
• Interest and ability to learn other languages as needed
• Proficient SQL skills and experience with data wrangling

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or similar technical field
• Deep technical expertise with one or more of the following: natural language processing, statistical learning,  text understanding, classification, pattern recognition, recommendation systems, targeting systems, ranking systems or similar 
• Experience applying machine learning methods to products, features and/or services, including minimizing footprint, evaluating tradeoffs, and pipeline work
• Experience with distributed computing such as Hadoop/Spark
• Experience/familiarity with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with AWS platform

• Expertise in Python development
• Strong background in at least one area of machine learning, such as deep learning or NLP. 
• Familiarity with Tensorflow, scikit-learn, or PyTorch
• Proven problem solving and debugging skills
• Skill in efficiently implementing algorithms published in technical papers and/or developing new algorithms
• Enthusiasm for continuing to learn state-of-the-art techniques in machine learning
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills

Benefits:

Route offers an array of benefits including generous salaries, stock options, 100% healthcare coverage, and an unlimited PTO policy.

Route is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be!