Staff Manager, Machine Learning
US Remote
Applications have closed
Collectors is the leading provider of value-added services to the collectible’s markets. Every quarter we grade, authenticate, and sell millions of high-value, record-setting collectibles. We have broken past records, and we’re going to set future records, but we know that none of this is possible without the talented engineering experts and architects we’ve attracted to lead our teams. Which new records will you help to set?
Our services span collectible coins, trading cards, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia through our subsidiaries, which include Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA), Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS), Wata, Certified Coin Exchange (CCE), Collectors Corner, Set Registry, Collectors.com, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated more than 80 million items. We employ over 1,000 people across our Santa Ana, CA headquarters, New Jersey, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Team Overview
Our special projects & innovation team is building modern cloud based applications, integrations, stream processing, AI & ML based solutions. They are a highly-technical project team, focused on revamping our architecture & building microservices.
This team is working on some of the most cutting-edge technical projects within our Collectors, much of which will serve as the basis of expanded offerings for our customers. These projects include digital grading, value estimation, and recommendations for our marketplace customers.
Position Overview
We're looking for an experienced manager to lead our Machine Learning team. We are looking for a leader that is ambitious, quick to learn, practical and outcomes driven. We value people who can quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains, and enjoy working highly independently to solve our most important problems. Some of the nearest term projects they work on will entail using machine vision to drive digital grading, and building of ML models for card value estimation and recommendations.
What You’ll Do
- Own and deliver through your team complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability and deployment of ML models
- Contribute to the design and development of machine learning models to solve classification, regression, and machine vision problems
- Provide feedback pertaining to technical designs, proposals and code
- Analyze existing applications / databases and identify areas for improvement
- Design inputs and contribute to APIs that can support user experiences on web and mobile applications
- Collaborate with and mentor engineers/ engineering managers while also conducting code reviews to ensure consistent design patterns are being applied
- Hire, groom, and manage talented engineers and managers who are passionate about solving great problems
Who You Are
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related field (Master's degree is a plus)
- 2+ years experience managing a dedicated Machine Learning team
- 3+ years of dedicated experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or similar role
- Extensive knowledge of ML frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, scikit-learn)
- Understanding of data structures, data modeling and software architecture
- In-depth knowledge of mathematics, probability statistics, and algorithms
- Ability to write robust code in Python (experience with Go is a plus)
- Experience with Random Forest and Gradient Boosting Machines (LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost)
- Experience building computer vision and image recognition models using Convolutional Neural Networks
- Superb analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work effectively within a remote team
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
Reasons To Join Us
- Health Insurance: All full-time employees are eligible to enroll in Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401(K) Matching Plan: We are proud to offer a competitive 401k matching plan to our employees to support their future financial goals
- Vacation: All full-time employees are eligible for paid vacation
- Holiday Pay: All regular, full-time employees are eligible for nine company paid holidays
- Employee Discounts: Employees receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions
- Flexible Hours: Many of our teams offer flexible schedules with varying shifts and will work with you to accommodate your needs
- Fun Working Environment: Our team members are invited to participate in celebrations, holiday events, and team building activities
Roles advertised as remote eligible are not open to applicants in Colorado and may not be performed in Colorado.
Collectors may use e-verify to validate your ability to work legally in the United States.We are aware that there are instances where individuals are receiving job offers that fraudulently allege to be from Collectors or one of our business units. This type of fraud can be carried out through false websites, through fake e-mails claiming to be from the company or through social media. We never ask for personal information such as your bank account, Social Security numbers or National IDs, nor do we send or request payments for the purchase of business-related equipment. If you suspect fraud, please reach out to jobs@collectors.com.
About Collectors
Collectors is the leading provider of value-added services to the collectible’s markets. We authenticate and grade collectible coins, trading cards, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia through our subsidiaries, which include Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA), Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS), Certified Coin Exchange (CCE), Wata, Card Ladder, Collectors Corner, Set Registry, Collectors.com, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated more than 80 million items. We employ over 1,000 people across our Santa Ana, CA headquarters, New Jersey, Seattle, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. For more information, visit http://www.collectors.com.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We believe that a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills will better service the diverse community of collectors we support.
If you require an accommodation to apply or interview with us due to a disability or special need, please email people@collectors.com.
If you are based in California, you can read information for California residents linked here.
Tags: APIs Architecture Classification Computer Science Computer Vision Engineering LightGBM Machine Learning Mathematics Microservices ML models Python PyTorch Scikit-learn Security Statistics TensorFlow XGBoost
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Competitive pay Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Insurance Team events
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Data Science Manager jobs
- Open Lead Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Manager jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Power BI Developer jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Principal Data Engineer jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Developer jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Product Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Senior Data Architect jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Analyst Intern jobs
- Open Big Data Engineer jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open Junior Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Product Manager jobs
- Open Data Quality Analyst jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open Privacy-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open Snowflake-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Generative AI-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open Airflow-related jobs
- Open Docker-related jobs