Principal Machine Learning Scientist

About Talroo  

We are honored to be recognized as a multi-award winning organization. Talroo has been consistently recognized as a Top Workplace and a Best Place to Work in Austin. We've been ranked the last five years by Inc. 500/5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. You'll also find us on the Austin Business Journal's Fast 50 growth awards list multiple times. We're growing the right way, and we need exceptional talent to help us build upon our successful story. 

Talroo is helping organizations like Uber, McDonald’s, UPS, The Home Depot, Target and more, find and hire their essential workforces. Our data-driven job and hiring event recruiting platform turns the Internet into a help wanted sign. Our pay-for-performance model enables customers to maximize efficiency, not waste spend, and hire employees faster than they could with any of our competitors.    
 
Rather than drive customers to a destination site, Talroo uses a consumer marketing approach to deliver job opportunities to candidates where they are already spending time online. Similar to what Google AdSense and Facebook Ad Networks do for their advertisers, Talroo uncovers the right candidates that companies are looking to hire.  
 
Talroo leverages a search-and-match algorithm powered by state-of-the-art AI technologies. Our deep-learning processes analyze billions of signals daily, assessing the job seeker-employer relationship in real time. This produces significantly better search results for the job seekers, and higher quality applicant matches for the employer.  

While we focus on providing amazing results and service for our customers, within our exciting company you’ll also find a high-performance environment of collaboration, encouragement, transparency and fun.  

About the Position  

This Principal Machine Learning Scientist position is a high-impact role at Talroo.  We are looking for an experienced machine learning practitioner with high standards to help scale and expand high-value business initiatives.  

You will be joining a top-tier team that understands the real-world business opportunity that machine learning enables and how it can transform businesses.  At Talroo, we iterate with A/B testing to fail fast and learn quickly. The result is real, measurable revenue and profit impact.   

The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology with a clear, solid background in computer science. If you have a proven ability to learn, explore, and quickly turn the latest technologies into value, then you are the perfect candidate.  

Our team of experienced engineers has deep industry experience in search/information retrieval.  The team is highly collaborative while also being self-sufficient enough to turn any idea into a business win.  As a high impact teammate, you will help with everything from data ETLs to modeling to model serving to test reporting. This unique opportunity will expose you to deep insights into the technology and the business.  On a day-to-day basis, expect roughly 20% of your time to be on the serving/inference layer, 20% data science modeling, and the rest will be around data cleaning, ETL, and analytics. 

The team is working to improve many facets of the job recommendation process. This involves gathering data from billions of monthly job queries to create, test, and iterate on machine learning models. When successful, we help job seekers find their perfect job faster and employers receive a higher quality of candidate.  

What we are looking for in a highly qualified candidate:  

• Machine learning – Great intuitive understanding of statistics, extensive experience using various methodologies building models. Natural Language Model experience is preferred
• Big Data processing – Apache Spark is the key to our data pipelines that create our insights. Understanding SQL is a must in this environment.  For maximum performance, we utilize Scala
• Most importantly, a highly qualified candidate has the initiative and ability to quickly learn and apply the above

Minimum Requirements  

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or Statistics
• Five (5) years of data science, machine learning, or data engineering work experience  
• Ten (10) or more years of computer programming work experience with proven, high-value results
• Must reside in the greater Austin metro area or be willing to relocate to the Austin area (Relocation Reimbursement will be offered)  
• Employment sponsorship available for this position 

Benefits  

• Highly competitive salary  
• Company-paid gym membership  
• Comprehensive, company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents  
• 401(k) retirement plan with 3% employer contribution  
• Paid company holidays & Unlimited PTO  
• Awesome company events  

Talroo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.