Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud. 

We are looking for aMid-level/Senior Machine Learning Engineerto join theSoundCloud Recommendationteam (part of Music Discovery & Intelligence group), with a mission to help users find and play what they’re looking for and enable them to explore further to discover music that exists nowhere else and connect directly with the artists that make it. In the role you will be responsible for the software engineering and machine learning models and infrastructure necessary to leverage the data and other resources to build and deliver search and recommendation mechanisms at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Take responsibility for well-defined tasks and help shape technical decisions, design, and best practices

Background & Experience:

Hands-on experience with implementing machine learning models and infrastructure for training, deploying, inference and validation of models at scale
Familiar with common machine learning algorithms and/or other methods relevant to recommendation systems
Proficiency in Java, Scala, Python, and/or similar languages
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including version control, testing, code reviews, CI/CD
Basic experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for deploying ML services and containerization (Docker)
Experience with large scale, distributed data processing frameworks/tools like Apache Spark, BigQuery
Ability to clean, process, and analyze large datasets, as well as experience conducting and interpreting A/B tests using SQL
Solid communication skills and enjoy working as a part of a cross-functional, solutions oriented team
Strong problem solving skills and the ability to deliver concise, actionable solutions

Nice to have:

Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, etc. is a strong plus

If you’re excited about working with us to support the SoundCloud community, we’d love to hear from you! Please include a cover letter explaining your interest with your resume.