Job details
Salary $150,000 - $200,000 a year job type full-time number of hires for this role 1
Full job description
Maxmind (www.maxmind.com) is looking for a talented, experienced, and highly motivated senior machine learning engineerWe help protect thousands of companies worldwide from fraud, screening over a billion online transactions each year, and we provide ip intelligence data to thousands moreThis work requires us to take on exciting challenges and we want you to help!
Note: we welcome candidates to apply from the following states ca, co, fl, la, mn, nv, ny state (excluding new york city and yonkers), nc, or, pa, tx, wa, and anywhere in canada.
Maxmind does not currently sponsor us employment visasFor canadian candidates, you must be eligible/authorized to work in canada.
The position
As a senior machine learning engineer, your job will involve working with other ml engineers to improve maxmind’s ability to detect fraudYou may work on enhancing algorithms, automating parts of the workflow, or testing hypothesesWe`re looking for an experienced machine learning engineer who can make good technical design decisions and communicate well with non-engineers.
Potential paths for growth in this role include becoming a team lead and managing a small team or gaining responsibility as an individual contributor.
Our salary range for our senior machine learning engineering roles are between $150,000 - $200,000 usd or $190,000 - $250,000 cad (in canada), with the specific offer depending upon skills and experienceSee more about benefits and compensation below.
About you minimum qualifications
Ability to contribute to each part of the workflow, from exploratory data analysis through productionizing code
Ability to recognize areas that would benefit from automation and lead the necessary work
Experience working with imbalanced data with missing and inaccurate labels
Experience doing machine learning with tabular data
Experience with eda, data preparation, feature selection and extraction
Working knowledge of xgboost or similar algorithms
Desired, but not required
Experience with:
Semi-supervised learning
Risk scoring (e.g., from fraud detection, insurance, or related industries)
Ability to scale ml processes, infrastructure, and tooling
Our development practices
Our production service code is largely written in perl and go and operates on a postgresql and linux platformFor ml code, we use perl for data extraction and testing, and python for model buildingWe maintain high standards for our development practicesNew code is expected to include automated tests run by teamcity, and go through internal code review on github enterprise.
We use free software as much as possible, and we release code back to the community when we can do soWe`re always improving the way we do development, and we expect you to participate in that process.
Why work at maxmind?
In a recent survey, employees listed having a supportive work culture, good co-workers, autonomy, and feeling trusted, valued, and respected as some of the things they like most about working here.
Maxmind has a social missionMaxmind donates over 60% of profits to charitiesWe would like to thank our team and customers for making this possible.
Maxmind’s compensation strives to reward getting stuff done, quality of work, and working well with others.
Our culture is very important to usWe’re friendly, collaborative, and work-focusedWe don’t like office politics and unnecessary stressWe like to have productive workdays and don’t like work to chase us when we’re done for the dayWe maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but are flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life eventsWe care about helping each other succeed.
Our office recently reopenedMost employees are still working remotelyIn normal times, about half of employees are fully remote, and half work from our office some days of the weekCommunication centers around video chat, group chat, and agile planning tools.
Normally, we hold an annual company summit one time per year in waltham, ma.
Benefits
In addition to competitive compensation, our us benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and short and long term disability insurance, a safe harbor 401(k) with employer contribution, health savings account, limited purpose flexible spending account, dependent care account, paid parental leave, and public transit reimbursement.
Our canadian benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, short and long term disability insurance, employee and family assistance program, and paid parental leaveYou also have access to a group retirement savings planIn lieu of a canadian rrsp contribution we provide a bonus payout at the end of each year that employees may decide to use toward retirement savings.
Everyone participates in a company performance-based bonus planMaxmind offers a $2,000 professional development budget and five days for professional development annually.
Diversity and inclusion
We`re committed to diversity and inclusion and are mindful of incorporating them into all aspects of our company.
We encourage and sincerely welcome applications from candidates of color, women, queer candidates, candidates with family caregiving responsibilities, transgender candidates, and from other communities not well represented in the tech world.
See our complete diversity and inclusion statement - https://www.maxmind.com/en/company/working-at-maxmind.
Resumes without cover letters will not be consideredWe want to know about youPlease tell us why you’re interested in maxmind and in this position in particularPlease share any projects or accomplishments and include a link so we can learn moreOne of the first steps in our interviewing process is a homework assignment, and we will ask you for a submission so we can gain insight into your work.
Job type: full-time
Pay: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year
Benefits:
401(k)
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Professional development assistance
Referral program
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to friday
Work remotely:
Yes
