Senior Engineer, Machine Learning

Who we are looking for:

ACV’s Machine Learning Team is looking for a talented, experienced Machine Learning Engineer, to join our pricing domain. You will be leading the research and development of models that power the prediction of vehicle sale prices on the ACV marketplace.

Successful candidates will demonstrate excellent skill and maturity, be self-motivated as well as team-oriented, and have the ability to support the development and implementation of end-to-end ML-enabled software solutions to meet the needs of internal stakeholders. Those who will excel in this role will be those who listen with an ear to the overarching goal, not just the immediate concern that started the query. They will be able to show their recommendations are contextually grounded in an understanding of the practical problem, the data, and theory as well as what product and software solutions are feasible and desirable.

What you will do:

• Working with the fellow machine learning engineers to explore and refine the existing models via creative feature engineering and model tuning.
• Developing ML models from proof of concept to Production.
• Mining structured & unstructured data, and performing EDAs.
• Documenting the work process, including experiments, parameter tuning etc.
• Monitoring performance of models in production.

What you will need:

• Graduate education in a computationally intensive domain.
•  3-6 years of prior relevant work or lab experience in ML projects/research, with 8+ total years of software development/analytics experience
  • 1+ years as tech lead or major contributor on cross-team projects.
• Strong sense and skills in mathematics, statistics and algorithms. Experience with regression analysis and classification analysis is essential.
• Experience with EDA, including data pipeline building and data visualization.
• Advanced proficiency with Python, SQL etc.
• Extensive knowledge of ML frameworks and libraries. Experience on tree-based algorithms (XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM etc.), and Generalized linear models (GLM) are highly valued.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with model interpretation.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS / GCP), docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Bash scripting
• Experience working with REST APIs (FastAPI, Flask, Django)
• Automotive experience #LI-MS1