Staff Machine Learning Engineer

What we're looking for

The role will report to the senior manager of the data science team. This team will partner with Machine Learning Platform, Legal, Security, Application Engineering, Product Management, Product Design, and Survey Research teams to define and execute the product roadmap. The role has huge opportunities to help ship the next generation of pleasant experience for our customers to instantly create high-quality surveys, and derive professional, actionable insights from their data.

What you'll be working on

• Mentor and guide junior data scientists on the team. Serve as the technical leader for multiple machine learning projects. Your expertise will be instrumental in helping them with project planning, making technical decisions, and conducting code and document reviews, fostering their growth and ensuring the team's overall success.
• Promote excellence in execution by streamlining agile processes, getting clarity in project definitions, making smart trade-offs between tech debt accumulation and pay off, and adjusting plans to meet changing needs.
• Thrives under pressure and is open to new ideas
• Advocate for data-driven practices within the organization. Collaborate seamlessly across functional teams from different timezones to drive product improvement.

We'd love to hear from people with

• 12 years of hands-on data science experience
• Good understanding of applied machine learning techniques, including natural language processing, classification, personalization, ranking, etc
• Great understanding of the lifecycle of ML-enabled products
• Experience developing and deploying the machine learning models using tools such as Athena, Sagemaker, Snowflake, and Airflow DAG.
• Strong ability to coach the team, helping team members improve their skill sets and grow their careers

SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, you will be required to work from a SurveyMonkey office up to 1 day every other week.