Bloomberg

Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Media Search and Recommendation

Bloomberg$165K — $260K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Object Oriented Programming (Python or Java)
  • 5+ years handling large datasets and machine learning experimentation
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
  • Hands-on experience with big data systems like Spark
  • Proficient in building data pipelines for customer-facing products
  • Demonstrated leadership in delivering machine learning projects
  • Experience with public cloud platforms like AWS

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and delivery of personalization and recommendation systems
  • Build and maintain data pipelines for personalization and experimentation
  • Design backend services and APIs for personalized content delivery
  • Collaborate with data science team for rapid experimentation
  • Work cross-functionally with frontend engineers for cohesive user experience
  • Make architectural decisions and shape technical direction
  • Mentor engineers to enhance the team's technical capabilities

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid holidays and time off
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Wellness programs
  • Incentive compensation opportunities for exempt roles
Full Job Description
Description & Requirements

We'll trust you to
• Lead the design and delivery of personalization and recommendation systems that power discovery across Bloomberg.com and mobile platforms.
• Build and maintain data pipelines that support personalization, experimentation, and model-driven product experiences.
• Design, develop, and evolve backend services and APIs that deliver personalized content at scale with low latency.
• Partner closely with the data science team to productionize models and enable rapid experimentation.
• Collaborate across the stack, including with frontend engineers, to deliver cohesive and high-quality user experiences.
• Make architectural decisions, drive technical discussions, and help set technical direction for the personalization platform.
• Mentor other engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the team.

You need to have
• 5+ years of industry experience in an Object Oriented Programming language, preferably Python or Java
• 5+ years of industry experience working with large data sets, performing machine learning model experimentation, implementation and deployment.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

We'd love to see
• Exposure building and developing a content recommendation system, focusing on recommendation algorithms and machine learning capabilities
• Familiarity building user behavioral models to predict users likelihood to perform high value actions like propensity to subscribe or churn
• Experience with end-to-end machine learning projects, including data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, hyper-parameter tuning, model deployment and ongoing performance monitoring.

• Hands-on expertise with big data systems and distributed data processing technologies such as Spark

• Proven track record building and maintaining data pipelines that power customer-facing product features.

• Demonstrated leadership delivering machine learning projects from inception through delivery.

• Practical expertise with public cloud platforms such as AWS.

• Proven ability to operate and evolve web-scale distributed systems in production.

Salary Range = 165,000 - 260,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service (Bloomberg News), a global television network (Bloomberg Television), digital websites, a radio station (WBBR), subscription-only newsletters, and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, and Bloomberg Pursuits.
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