Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer, New Initiatives

Dropbox is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. A Machine Learning engineer develops models, systems and features that leverage the massive scale of Dropbox’s user base to understand and predict user behavior to optimize the experience at all stages of the user journey at Dropbox. Relevant experience can range from working on a wide-variety of optimization, and classification problems, e.g. segmentation, propensity modeling, text/sentiment classification, click-through rate prediction, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection.

• Design, build, evaluate, deploy and iterate on large scale Machine Learning systems
• Understand the Machine Learning stack at Dropbox, and build systems that help Dropbox personalize their users’ experience
• Work with Product, Design, Infra and Frontend teams to bring your models, and features to life
• Work with large scale data systems, and infrastructure
• Evaluate the performance of machine learning systems against business objectives

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other quantitative fields or related work experience
• 8+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years building Machine Learning or AI systems
• Strong industry experience working with large scale data
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven software engineering skills across multiple languages including but not limited to Python, Go,  C/C++
• Experience with Machine Learning software tools and libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.)

• PhD in Computer Science or related field with research in machine learning
• Experience with one or more of the following: natural language processing, deep learning, bayesian reasoning, recommendation systems, learning for search, speech processing, learning from semistructured data, graph learning, reinforcement or active learning, ML software systems, machine learning on mobile devices

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.