Principal Engineer, Machine Learning
Convoy is transforming the $800 billion trucking industry, where even 10 years ago, most truck drivers did not have smartphones and paper driver logs were common. In 2015, Convoy launched the digital freight movement with an open and fully connected marketplace for brands and manufacturers to work directly with freight carriers who move truckload shipments throughout the country. This ‘Digital Freight Network’ is powered by machine learning and automation, and supported by a broad, ever-growing set of features that benefit both sides of the marketplace.
We’ve been honored to work with some great companies, such as Unilever, The Home Depot, and Procter & Gamble. We’ve also been backed by world-class investors, including Google, YCombinator, Fidelity, Greylock, Generation IM, Lone Pine, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford and the founders and CEOs of Amazon, Salesforce, eBay, LinkedIn, Expedia, Dropbox, Starbucks, and others. We are proud to have been named a CNBC Disruptor 50 Winner (3x), a Fast Company World Changing Idea, a LinkedIn Top Startup, a Forbes' Best Startup Employer, one of Fortune Magazine's 'Impact 20' list, a best place to work in Washington State, a BloombergNEF Pioneer winner, and more.
This is your opportunity to collaborate with an incredible group of people and help transform the freight industry. Join Convoy and help us transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste.
About the team:
Marketplace Demand drives the input to Convoy’s flywheel by bidding and pricing short and long-term freight opportunities. To achieve this goal, we predict the short and long-term costs of trucks, simulate network scenarios, understand Shipper needs and price sensitivities, while defining optimization objective functions, and managing ongoing yield of client relationships. This requires a high degree of product ML and forecasting capabilities, economic/ process innovation, and building a demand-side platform that aggregates opportunities from a wide range of bespoke shipper systems with high-data accuracy. Our cost forecasts are a key part of Convoy’s "secret sauce" and are critical inputs to a wide variety of other ML/ OR problems at Convoy. This includes supply side matching.
About you:
You will own a greenfield 0 to 1 platform and focus your work on the pricing system and forecasting engine that allows Convoy to operate profitably. Using ML, you will help define how the prediction on costs of servicing a given shipment and input for profit return by using ML. This system will power the rest of Convoy’s predictive systems. Ideal experience with pricing and marketplace systems & experience shipping platform (ML platform highly preferred). You will be working across multiple disciplines, including Engineering and Data Science. Our cost forecasts are a key part of Convoy’s secret recipe and are critical inputs to a wide variety of other ML problems at Convoy including supply-side matching.
You will:
Own a greenfield 0 to 1 platform, focusing on working on the pricing system & forecasting engine for Convoy to continue to operate profitably. Using ML, you will help define how the prediction on costs of servicing a given shipment and input for profit return by using ML. This system will power the rest of Convoy’s predictive systems. Ideal experience with pricing and marketplace systems & experience shipping platform (ML platform highly preferred). You will be working across multiple disciplines, including Engineering and Data Science.
We’re looking for someone who has:
Experience with a high degree of product machine learning and forecasting capabilities, process innovation, and building a demand-side platform that aggregates opportunities from a wide range of bespoke shipper systems with high data accuracy.
Benefits:
Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the Convoy team. Outside of offering excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits, we also offer the following:
- On demand mental and emotional health benefits through Lyra
- On demand primary care through 98.6
- Generous paid time off
- Paid parental leave program
- Fertility benefit solutions via Progyny
- Child-care and adult/elder-care options through Bright Horizons
- Opportunity to join and contribute to one of our Employee Resource Groups
- Ability to make a real world impact!
Convoy is an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!