Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Trust & Safety

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Bumble is looking for machine learning engineers to join our team and play a key role in fulfilling our mission to create a world where all relationships are healthy and equitable. Concretely, this means implementing, deploying and maintaining state-of-the-art machine learning models that help Bumble provide a safe and engaging experience for our users and improve the way Bumble operates. With millions of images and messages exchanged on our platform every day, there is a wealth of opportunity to make a real difference in this role and help people find love all over the world! The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, extensive experience in machine learning applications along with a passion for tech.

TRUST & SAFETY TEAM

This position sits within the Trust & Safety Engineering group, a cross-functional team of 40+ engineers, scientists and machine learning professionals that help grow kind, healthy & equitable connections by designing and operationalizing the safest and most trusted connections platform in the industry. They partner with the wider business to create and share tooling, knowledge, and best practices around Trust and Safety technology while undertaking special product and development initiatives designed to improve the actual safety and felt experience of safety of members across Bumble products.

What you will be doing

• Work in a cross-functional team alongside data scientists and machine learning scientists Implement and deploy cutting-edge machine learning models for measurable impact across the business
• Create the tools, frameworks and libraries that enable the acceleration of our ML products delivery
• Drive improvements to our current AI workflows in terms of process, performance and testing
• Mentor and coach team members on ML engineering best practises
• Build capabilities for our MLOps platform

We’d love to meet someone with

• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a similar quantitative discipline
• Hands on experience in delivering machine learning models to production at scale
• Experience in writing production-quality Python code
• Comfortable working with python data science and machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, pandas, numpy, PyTorch, XGBoost
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/ K8s
• Strong understanding of machine learning applications development life cycle processes and tools: CI/CD, version control (git), testing frameworks, MLOps, agile methodologies, monitoring and alerting
• Comfortable working with Docker and containerised applications
• Experience accessing and combining data from multiple sources and building data pipelines (ETL)
• Ability to work collaboratively and proactively in a fast-paced environment alongside scientists, engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to combine business intuition with the application of advanced solutions
• A passion for keeping up with the latest ongoings in Data Science and Machine Learning communities
• A curious mind, self-starter and endlessly keen to learn and develop themselves professionally

Desirable skills

• Experience with cloud infrastructures – GCP is a plus
• Experience with On Call policies

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through kind connections. Founded by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.