Machine Learning Engineer II (User Modelling & Targeting)

We believe that we are better together, and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

Tripadvisor is looking for an exceptional scientist to join our dynamic and fast paced Machine Learning Team, focusing primarily on the user behavior modeling, segmentation and targeting for Tripadvisor’s Media and Marketing businesses. We have over 400M+ travelers who visit Tripadvisor monthly, looking for travel inspiration and guidance and to share their travel experiences. We seek to analyze and understand the interests, preferences and behaviors of our users, so that we can present them with relevant marketing and media/advertising content with the ultimate goal of driving up the user engagement and marketing + advertising revenues.

As a Machine Learning Scientist working in this space, you will have the opportunity to apply your modeling and engineering skills to solve a wide variety of customer segmentation problems and to devise associated targeting strategies to deploy those segments in various marketing and advertising campaigns. To achieve this, you will have access to a wide variety of development tools and huge data sets. You will also have the opportunity to deploy your solutions online and be able to observe the impact of your work in real time as you help the company grow.

We are looking for someone who is independent, curious, and motivated; who likes discussing ideas and will bring something new to the table. You will be working in a diverse environment where you’ll collaborate with a broad multidisciplinary team of ML scientists, analysts, software engineers, and product managers. You’ll be encouraged to take ownership of your projects and to find new opportunities and problems where machine learning could be applied to improve the business. Finally, you will also be provided the environment to grow technically and personally into a leader while contributing to the team. 

Tripadvisor is the web's leading travel information site. At Tripadvisor, the ML Team creates high impact systems that influence the travel decisions of millions of people per day. We apply cutting edge machine learning techniques to a wide variety of areas, including recommenders, online advertising, vision, text processing, and natural language processing. To ensure continued success, Tripadvisor promotes a culture of personal development, including social activities, journal clubs, memberships in online learning resources, and participation in industry conferences. Have a great time while shaping the future of travel!

What You Will Do:

• Partner with Stakeholders to understand business objectives and create product requirements and specification documents for new features and products
• Explore our huge data lake to identify right sources of data by analyzing its content and relevance to the business problem
• Participate in the design of machine learning models to solve a variety of core business problems around user segmentation and targeting for the Marketing and Advertising businesses
• Prototype, evaluate, deploy and maintain new models in production, collaborating with the product and engineering teams
• Design experiments to evaluate the efficacy of our user models and targeting strategies in Marketing & Advertising campaigns and analyze their results
• Communicate progress and interpretation of experimental results to technical and business stakeholders
• Participate in the determination of next steps for each project
• Seek out opportunities to apply data science and machine learning to optimize existing user targeting strategies and/or identify new targeting strategies that drive revenues
• Discover new ways to analyze and interpret the data

Skills & Experience:

• PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field preferred
• For Masters candidates, 2+ years of relevant, practical experience
• Strong foundation in machine learning and statistics
• Proficiency in Python for numerical/statistical programming (our group relies heavily on Numpy/Pandas/Scikit-learn)
• Ability to interpret and write complex SQL queries
• Experience with big data technologies, such as Hive and Spark
• Experience with the deployment and maintenance of models - tools like Kubernetes, MLflow, AWS, etc.

If you need reasonable accommodation or support during the application or the recruiting process due to a medical condition or disability, please reach out to your individual recruiter or send an email to AccessibleRecruiting@Tripadvisor.com and let us know the nature of your request. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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