Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion — and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

Data is a crucial part of Shopify’s mission to make commerce better for everyone. We organize and interpret petabytes of data to provide solutions for our merchants and stakeholders across the organization. From pipelines and schema design to machine learning products and decision support, data science at Shopify is a diverse role with many opportunities to positively impact our success.

Our Staff (aka Lead) Data Scientists focus on pushing products and the business forward, with a focus on solving important problems rather than specific tools. We are looking for talented data scientists to help us better understand our merchants and buyers so we can help them on their journey.

This role is focused on building the next generation Search algorithms, incorporating the newest ML techniques. You may also work on projects involving LLM-based work. You will also create the architecture for bigger projects and mentor senior data scientists to take on the challenge of building and coding your architecture into existence.

• Experience in the domain of search, personalization, recommendations and machine learning techniques
• Commercial experience in a data science role solving high impact business problems
• Technical leadership - you are able to think about system design and architecture
• Mentoring senior data scientists
• Experience delivering business impact through data and machine learning products
• Experience building data pipelines and driving ETL design decisions
• Experience creating data product strategies, shipping data products, iterating after launch, and trying again
• Extensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object oriented programming (OOP) fundamentals
• Strong ability to prioritize and communicate to technical and non-technical audiences alike

It would be great if you have:

• Built search related products e.g. chatbots
• Exposure to building data products that use generative AI and LLMs
• Previous experience using Spark (either via Scala or Pyspark)
• Experience with statistical methods like regression, GLMs or experiment design and analysis, shipping productionized machine learning systems or other advanced techniques are also welcome

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. And remember, we want to know what you’re really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you’d like in the answers on the next page.

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.

About the company

Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

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