Machine Learning Engineer

Company: The Motley Fool
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Do you enjoy extracting value from our data? Does the prospect of leading the processes from data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing, to training models and deploying them to production excite you? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, then we would love to talk with you about joining our Data Platform team as a Machine Learning Engineer.Our purpose at The Motley Fool is to help people become Smarter, Happier, and Richer. We educate people on everything from how to choose the best credit card to how to make the most of their 401(k).--We are looking for our next great Fool to lead our ML initiatives.The ideal candidate will be a confident, experienced machine learning engineer who is passionate about machine learning and will stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.Responsibilities:* Properly use statistical techniques* Use data exploratory techniques using visualization tools* Requirements gathering working with Business Owners and ability to explain insights.* Ability to use choose between a higher score versus explain* Understanding of time-series* Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning* Analysis of data drift* Defining validation strategies* Defining the preprocessing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset* Observing the best practices on training models* Automatically tuning hyperparameters using tools like Grid Search* Analyzing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them* Deploying models to productionSkills:* A minimum of 2 years of experience required* Proficiency with a deep learning framework preferred* Proficiency with Python and basic libraries for machine learning (PANDAS and Scikit-Learn)* Expertise in visualizing and manipulating big datasets* Proficiency with auto-ML and data modeling frameworks using AWS, Azure, and/or Google* Ability to select hardware to run an ML model* Communication skills and ability to collaborate with Data Engineers and Business Analysts* Adept with Data Wrangling techniques

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