Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Developer API

Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, powered by dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare’s location tech stack is being utilized by the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.

Foursquare’s flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK);  data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Unfolded Studio).

About the team:

Foursquare’s Developer API team is interested in hiring an experienced software engineer to work on our foundational machine learning technologies. The engineer who fills this role will support and improve our place search functionality, which allows developers and users to find and search for relevant POI. In this role, you will be working on a key technology at the foundation of Foursquare’s business and will be in a position to make an outsized impact on the direction and success of Foursquare’s developer products. 

Responsibilities of the role:

• Design and write software in our machine learning pipeline, review the code and designs of teammates
• Recommend and implement improvements to our machine learning systems, including new modeling approaches, infrastructure, and featurization change
• Conduct hands-on analyses of our data at all stages, from raw inputs to the final outputs, to drive hypothesis generation and performance measurement
• Mentor more junior data scientists and software engineers
• Communicate technical concepts with clarity to non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience as a software engineer
• Professional experience with Hadoop MapReduce or Spark
• Strong coding skills in Scala, Python, and/or Java
• A demonstrated track record of putting machine learning solutions into production big data pipelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with ranking, search, or autocomplete problems
• Experience with ElasticSearch

Perks and benefits:

• Learning and development programs from individual contributors to managers
• Individual, professional coaching for all full-time employees
• Flexible time off - rest and recharge when you need it!
• Comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Home office setup: you get all necessary hardware and internet reimbursement 
• Family planning programs via Carrot and Maven
• Employee Resource Groups to help you stay connected

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.