AI/ML Job: Senior Data Engineer, Machine Learning

Senior Data Engineer, Machine Learning at Flock Freight

🇺🇸 United States › California › San Diego   (Posted Oct 15 2021)

Do they allow remote work?
Remote work is possible, see the description below for more information.

Job description
What drives you? Maybe you want to make the world a better place and tackle new, exciting challenges while disrupting an industry. Maybe you want to solve complex problems in applied machine learning, cloud deployments, or vehicle routing on an unmatched engineering team. Maybe you want to advance your career and work with the brightest minds in freight. If this sounds like you, you've come to the right place!

Interviewing is a two-way street, so let’s get to know each other. Here’s a little about us:
We’re growing fast — like, speed-of-light fast. We have 150 new, full-time Flockers and more square feet — in Encinitas and Chicago — than ever before
We’re taking names. Find us on the CNBC Disruptor 50, SDCE 100, SDBJ Diversity & Social Responsibility, and Fast Company World Changing Ideas lists
We’ve got support. Our investors include SoftBank, Volvo Group Venture Capital, SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners, and GV (formerly Google Ventures)
Efficiency is in our DNA. Our mission is to reinvent North America’s $2-trillion freight industry by relentlessly eliminating waste and inefficiency
Algorithms drive our sustainable shared truckload solution. Behind our carbon neutral shared truckload service is world-class tech (and a lot of sweat)
We walk the talk. We make a positive impact in everything we do; our B Corporation certification is proof. We were the first B Corp in our industry
We ask a lot of our people, but take care of them. Our team has a lot to prove and the attitude to do it. Join our high-performance, high-care culture
Pandemics aside, we offer flexible work schedules. Knowing you have a life outside of work, we won’t ask you to do your job from the office five days a week

This position is located at Flock Freight HQ in San Diego, CA or Remote

Job Summary:
Flock Freight is growing and we’re looking to bring on a Senior Data Engineer to drive the Machine Learning Data Product roadmap of the Infrastructure team. You will build critical products and infrastructure to democratize access to Flock Freight's data and empower the core optimization team composed primarily of Data Scientists and Machine Learning engineers. This person will collaborate closely with the Optimization team and act as a value multiplier by facilitating production-grade data pipelines, base-feature sets, as well as operating feature stores.

Responsibilities:
Build a unified feature store to enable rapid and reliable development by Flock Freight's data scientists and machine learning engineers
Write complex SQL queries and tune them for efficiency to quickly transform data into timely and actionable insights
Design and implement production-grade data pipelines utilizing big data and distributed streaming technologies like Apache Kafka

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Strong communication and collaboration skills working cross functionally
Deep understanding of data pipelines and data science workflows
You’ve built meaningful pieces of infrastructure in a cloud computing environment. Bonus if those were data processing systems or distributed systems
Experience building machine learning systems in production such as enabling data analytics at scale
Exposure to machine learning workflows - you've developed and deployed your own models - even if these are simple proof of concepts
Systems Engineering - you've built meaningful pieces of infrastructure in a cloud computing environment. Bonus if those were data processing systems or distributed systems

Apply now!