Machine Learning Engineer - Ads

NextdoorNorth AmericaMid Level5+ years experienceMachine Learning Engineering

The role

Nextdoor is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for its Ads product, building models that make real-time decisions on the neighborhood network. The company uses a hybrid model near its offices and expects staff to use AI tools in daily work.

What you will do

  • Collect datasets and build ML models for real-time platform decisions
  • Build low-latency models from important features
  • Deploy models to production and integrate them into the product
  • Run live user-facing experiments and measure business metric impact
  • Work with product, data science and other engineers
  • Help set foundational ML patterns for future engineers

What they ask for

  • BS in computer science, applied math, statistics or a related field
  • 5+ years of industry or academic experience applying ML at scale
  • Experience building ML models for advertising products
  • Experience writing and maintaining production-quality code
  • Able to analyze large amounts of data
  • Comfortable in a dynamic startup environment and using AI tools in daily work

What they offer

  • Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting
  • Health plans, one with 100% employee-only coverage
  • OneMedical membership

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Nextdoor's careers page behind the apply button.

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