Overview
As a Machine Learning Engineer at Substack, you will play a crucial role in developing and implementing cutting-edge machine learning solutions to enhance our product offerings. You will be part of a small and dynamic team, collaborating closely with software engineers and data scientists, to bring machine learning models into our codebase and integrate them seamlessly into our products. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our technology stack and make a significant impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead Substack’s thinking about ML adoption and integration of ML tools and techniques
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and define machine learning opportunities that align with our product roadmap
- Develop, train, and deploy machine learning models using Python and popular ML frameworks
- Leverage off-the-shelf ML tools and systems to accelerate Substack’s ability to incorporate ML functionality into its product and workflows
- Integrate machine learning models and pipelines into our main TypeScript app
- Optimize and fine-tune ML models for performance, scalability, and efficiency
- Design and implement data pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model training
- Deploy and own integrated product experiences and internal tools
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience with data and ML systems
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with Python libraries commonly used in machine learning (e.g. PyTorch)
- Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and statistical modeling
- Independent and autonomous. We’re too small to micromanage, and expect that every person at the company owns their work and can be a leader.
- Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems.
- Enjoy collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders while bringing your own unique experience and background to the team
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Node.js for seamless integration of machine learning models into our codebase
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS or Modal)
- Experience with consumer web applications at scale
Substack’s compensation package includes a market-competitive salary, equity, and exceptional benefits. Our cash compensation salary range for this role is $200,00-250,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Substack is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, national origin, veteran or disability status. We’re seeking people passionate about enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators. If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribute, we’d love to meet you.
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Top Skills
What We Do
Substack lets writers connect with their audience on their own terms and earn money doing it. We make it simple for writers to publish to an email list that they own, get discovered on the web, and charge for subscriptions.
More than 500,000 people pay to subscribe to writers across the Substack network, and the top writers make millions of dollars a year. Substack’s model depends on the success of writers using Substack – we only make money when they do.
“Substack makes it dead simple to start a newsletter and get paid for it.” – Judd Legum, author of Popular Information
"Substack gives me a way to connect with my audience on my own terms.” – Lyz Lenz, author of God Land and Men Yell At Me
Make something that matters
Great writing is valuable. It respects readers' time, their intelligence, and their trust. It helps us make sense of and change the culture we live in. At Substack, we're building a business model that enables great writing to thrive. Learn more about our opportunity and mission.
We are a small but growing team, and there is more to build than we could ever imagine. That’s why we need you.
We aim to take pragmatic approaches to problem solving while shipping high-quality products that allow the writing on Substack to take the spotlight.
Every person at the company participates in customer support. We do this to build empathy with our users and enable us to build better products.
We believe that a diverse team will help us build a product that best serves the needs of a wildly diverse ecosystem of writers. So whatever your background or perspective, we’d welcome your input to help build the best possible version of Substack.
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