At Instawork, we’re driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals in communities around the world. With a growing number of hub cities across the world in the U.S., Canada, India, and beyond, we’re looking for top talent to help rapidly scale our high-tech and high-touch labor marketplace. Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to crafting revolutionary products, all with the backing of our world-class investors, including Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock Capital, Y Combinator, and more!

Instawork’s mission is to create economic opportunities for businesses and local professionals worldwide. We view AI and machine learning as essential in advancing this mission across our products and organization. We are seeking an innovative Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team and lead impactful solutions

• 5+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a mix of startup and large scale experience, bonus points for being a co-founder
• Advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, or similar) and experience with applications
• Deep understanding of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, or similar) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks
• Strong communication and presentation skills with a natural executive presence
• Expert level fluency using languages like Python & SQL to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets
• Working knowledge of common web/mobile architectures, data pipelines, CI/CD processes, etc.
• Strong understanding of DBT or other similar data transformation/organization methodologies
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Mode, Tableau, Looker)
• B.Tech/ B.E or BS/BA in Math, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and implement machine learning algorithms to solve complex problems in real-time scheduling and workforce optimization
• Impact key company objectives by working closely with Product to refine our roadmap
• Build/maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of our products
• Gather, clean, and prepare large datasets for machine-learning models
• Build and maintain machine learning pipelines that are robust, scalable, and efficient
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning solutions into production systems
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of machine learning models and make continuous improvements

About Instawork

Founded in 2016, Instawork is the leading flexible work app for local, hourly professionals. Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than five million workers, filling a critical role in local economies. Instawork has been featured on CBS News, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and more. In 2022, Instawork was ranked among the country’s top 10% of fastest-growing companies by Inc. 5000 and was included in the Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup list. Instawork was also named the 2022 ACE Award recipient for “Best Innovation” and one of the “Best Business Apps” by Business Insider. Instawork helps businesses in the food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent job opportunities in more than 25 markets across the U.S. and Canada.

For more information visit www.instawork.com

We value diversity on our team and firmly believe Instawork is stronger when we hire people who make their own unique contributions to our culture. We welcome all applicants and encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

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