Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
On the Data Science team our goal is to extract insights from voluminous amounts of data and create practical insights using data science and machine learning tools. The general problems to solve are unconstrained; we are tasked with collaborating with business partners to drive the company’s innovation and profitability. We are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer who can further the team’s mission of solving core business problems with data science. As we scale our team’s impact to the organization, we need to build out and own the ML infrastructure to support our growth. In particular, we need someone to standardize and own our process for standing up and scaling cloud-based python services and APIs.
What You’ll Do:
- Write code to productionize our python ML models, taking them from the prototype stage to robust scalable services.
- Lead systems design conversations with our data scientists and engineering partners, using your engineering expertise and experience to help them design scalable and robust systems.
- Establish and inform engineering standard methodologies for the Data Science team and more junior machine learning engineers on the team
- Lead strategy for ownership and maintenance of Data Science team engineering infrastructure
- Promote and foster an inclusive, transparent, and collaborative culture
What You Bring
- You have successfully integrated high-throughput machine learning services (ideally written in python) into a broader microservices architecture
- Experience setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery/continuous training pipelines for machine learning models
- Experience evaluating and integrating 3rd party ML tools to accelerate development, e.g. Kubeflow, Sagemaker, H2O.ai, Databricks, Seldon
- Familiarity with Python ML ecosystem (numpy, pandas, sklearn, XGBoost)
- Mastery of software engineering tools and standard methodologies, e.g. git, unit testing, object-oriented design, containerization
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting ML solutions (e.g. prediction services & training pipelines, and also queues/streams) in a public cloud (we use AWS)
- Knowledge of SQL and familiarity with cloud data warehouses (we use Snowflake)
- Fluency in Kubernetes (the cnvrg ML platform we currently use is build on top of K8s and our engineering department uses K8s to manage its microservices)
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus.
Additional information
US employees must provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation. #LI-Hybrid