Join Etsy as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Quality

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies connecting millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether part of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop, you'll tackle meaningful, large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, making a rewarding impact while Keeping Commerce Human.

Salary Range

$190,000.00 - $224,000.00

The Role

Etsy is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II to join the Ads Quality team. We're looking for individuals who are product and delivery-driven and passionate about making ML innovations in digital advertising to improve the Etsy buyer/seller experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build user-centric ML systems for a two-sided marketplace with 90+ million buyers, 5+ million sellers, and hundreds of millions of unique, handmade, vintage listings. Etsy sellers use Etsy ads to advertise their products and grow their business. Etsy Ads optimize sellers’ budgets to advertise their listings in the best-performing places on Etsy.

The Ads Quality team builds machine learning systems to power sponsored search and recommendation products, including retrieval, ranking, and user engagement modeling on Etsy.com and the Etsy app.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Ads Search Quality. Besides salary, you will be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy.

We are considering candidates based in the United States. Candidates living within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn Office Hub or in the San Francisco Bay Area may be prioritized. For those within commutable distance, Etsy requires in-office attendance once or twice per week, depending on proximity to the office. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of team needs and preferences. Learn more about our .

About the Team

Our team develops custom machine-learning models that drive product vision and customer impact:

• Ensuring the right ads are in front of the right buyers.
• Maintaining a pipeline that scales for our 90+ million buyers and sellers.
• Personalizing the ad experience to the buyer's journey.

Responsibilities

The day-to-day activities include:

• Working cross-functionally with product engineering teams and communicating ideas and model capabilities to product managers.
• Pushing the state of the art and applying the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to improve buyer and seller experiences on Etsy.
• Prototyping, optimizing, and productionizing large-scale ML models that help deliver key results.
• Conducting A/B experiments to validate the efficiency of ML models and pipelines.
• Collaborating closely with product managers, ML engineers, full-stack engineers, and designers on product teams to deliver content to tens of millions of users.

Note that this list represents a sample of responsibilities. Your role may encompass other tasks, and job duties may change as necessary to meet business needs or local law.

Qualifications

The qualities that will help you thrive in this role include:

• Passion for applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems.
• Focused curiosity about fields like natural language processing, image processing, information retrieval, or deep learning.
• Experience building ML products through the entire ML lifecycle: scoping, prototyping, model development, deployment, monitoring, and debugging in production.
• Proficiency with modern ML libraries like PyTorch or TensorFlow, databases, SQL, and scripting languages.
• Successful experience taking requirements from design through to delivery with a team.
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability.
• A concern for the implications of your work on end users.

What's Next

If you're interested in joining Etsy, please share your resume. We welcome a cover letter if you'd like. Etsy values individuality and variety, so tell us what makes you unique. We don't want you to be like everyone else; we want you to be like you!