Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

About Cookpad and the Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer role

Cookpad is a tech company building a community platform that enables people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. It’s a global platform used by on average around 100 million people every month across the world. Over 4 million recipes have been created by people in almost 70 countries.

And we’re only just getting started.

Our mission is to make everyday cooking fun. Because we believe that cooking is the key to a happier and healthier life for people, communities and the planet.

Our heritage is unique: Cookpad was founded in Japan in 1997 and is a listed company in Tokyo.

We set up our international HQ in the UK and here we’re a start-up, building the global platform and working with our colleagues around the world.

Joining Cookpad as a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer is a career defining opportunity. Our Machine Learning team is growing and has already attracted high level talent in NLP and image processing. You will work at the cutting edge of engineering, building scalable infrastructure for machine learning to help bring our research to production and deliver real impact to millions of users worldwide.

It’s not for everyone. Because of our speed and growth, it can feel chaotic. It's an environment where creators and problem-solvers flourish. We challenge ourselves and each other because this is about something bigger than all of us. Expect talented, motivated and interesting colleagues.

It feels like a start-up with global ambition. We work in small, collaborative teams and in a creative, fast-paced environment.

The role is based in Bristol in the UK - one of the most exciting emerging tech hubs in Europe, a city on National Geographic’s Cool List 2018 and the best place to live in the UK.

As a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Cookpad you will:

• Deliver machine learning features to production
• Help to design a scalable architecture to train and serve machine learning models
• Build data pipelines to deliver data through our machine learning platform

Requirements

Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer Requirements:

• Extensive industry experience in software engineering
• Extensive experience developing with Python and at least one other language
• Experience with at least one common cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience working with kubernetes and Docker
• Understanding of machine learning
• SRE/Devops experience
• Evidence of using a Machine Learning framework (tensorflow or pytorch)

Benefits

Why join Cookpad?

People join us because they share our vision to improve people’s lives. As a company Cookpad invests heavily in learning and development -we hire smart people who thrive in small, highly collaborative and energised teams, and who look at what we do and want to be part of it.

Valuing our team means we offer competitive salaries, an employee referral scheme and very generous benefits, including 7% employer pension contribution, income protection and life insurance. We are central to transport hubs and bike routes which helps with flexible working and all-important downtime with family and friends.

In our usual working environment breakfast is provided every day, we have a fully stocked and fully equipped team kitchen where we can cook together and there are weekly pilates/ yoga classes.

In this interim period due to the current global pandemic we are working to keep as many of our perks as possible available to our staff. This includes moving the pilates/ yoga classes online as well as company socials and attendance of meetups.

Equal Opportunity

The Cookpad team is made up of an incredible, diverse range of people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

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