Job Description:

Summary:

A Principal Data Science and Machine Learning Engineer helps our learners discover content that is relevant to their interests and goals, providing them with experiences tailored just to their needs, and ensure they are receiving the right communication and assistance with their journey at the right time. They develop robust, scalable production machine learning algorithms and recommendation systems. They see the correlation between data science and machine learning and assist in bridging the gap between.

Who you’re committed to being:

• You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.
• You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.
• When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.
• You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link.
• You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others.

What you’ll do:

• Responsible for taking prototype algorithms and models and turning them into customer-facing solutions
• Build solutions to novel problems in software development, data engineering, and machine learning
• Build data pipelines; transform and convert data streams into structures needed for algorithm input
• Collaborate with Product Managers and UX Designers to better understand the customer, provide valuable input into functional design and usability
• Evaluate the efficiency of user experiences and ML algorithms, determining what data is needed and how to collect it, with an understanding of how these metrics are connected with the desired outcomes

Experience you’ll bring:

• You bring an ability to see the big picture across multiple projects within the DS/ML workspace.
• You have coached and mentored peers while leading out on best practices.
• You have partnered with technical leadership to provide recommendations on solution design and architecture.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience building production machine learning systems services as part of a product development team
• Expert in BI tools like Tableau or Looker and MySQL/SQL
• Expert in Python, TensorFlow, and in depth knowledge of data structures and database fundamentals
• Experience building good code with speed and efficiency and balancing the trade-offs of quality vs speed
• Experience in mentoring and/or leadership of junior engineers and driving the consistency and delivery of their code
• Ability to explain machine learning solutions to developers and other team members, regardless of their technical background
• Requires a minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience; or 8+ years and an advanced degree.

Physical and Mental requirements

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Why you’ll love working here:

• We’re remote- and hybrid-friendly
• We’re mission driven and values guided
• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging
• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration
• We’re lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement
• We’ve got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.

About us:

We’re Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company that helps teams build better by knowing more and working better together. Using our Skills, Flow, and Cloud product, teams can develop critical skills, improve processes and gain data-driven insights.

We’re a community of growth seekers and lifelong learners who are out to do big things that make a difference in people’s lives, and we’re looking for curious, talented people to join us. Our culture of trust, autonomy, and genuine collaboration create an environment where you’ll grow as a human and as a professional. Because to us, your growth is our growth, and vice versa.

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.

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