Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About Rent the Runway 

Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. RTR’s mission has remained the same since its founding: powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer brands. The Closet in the Cloud offers a wide assortment of millions of items for every occasion, from evening wear and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers and differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics and technology. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World" and as one of People Magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

Galway Office 

Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.  Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth. 

The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US, enabling the company to significantly expand its software engineering, product development, machine learning engineering, and data science footprint. Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.

Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.

About the Role:

Machine Learning Engineers at Rent the Runway create data products that have tangible effects on our customer experience and internal operations. You will be responsible for managing projects from start to finish. This includes identifying the problems to address, transforming data from our extensive ecosystem into actionable insights, and ultimately developing and integrating algorithms into our network of services. You will collaborate closely with our product and software engineering teams throughout this process.

You will have the opportunity to impact all parts of our business: determining what inventory assortment to buy, optimizing the lifespan of that inventory, establishing the right network of warehouses and transportation methods to best serve our customers, personalizing the user experience, optimizing user acquisition & retention, investigating how we can improve customer service by serving the right information at the right time, optimally pricing clothing rentals and sales, forecasting demand and more. 

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain robust and scalable MLOps pipelines using Google Cloud Platform solutions such as Vertex AI, BigQuery and DataFlow.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering, and Data Scientists to deliver ML capabilities that delight customers and internal users.
• Implement and automate CI/CD processes for model training, evaluation, and deployment in production environments.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to track model performance, system health, and business KPIs.
• Contribute to developing best practices for MLOps within the team and across the organisation.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning, MLOps, and cloud technologies, and share your knowledge with the team.

About You:

• 5+ years experience in an ML and/or MLOps-related role, with a strong focus on building, deploying, and maintaining robust machine learning capabilities in production environments. 
• Experience with at least one cloud platform, such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS.
• Proficiency in programming with Python or any other primary language such as Java.
• Experience with an enterprise data warehouse such as Snowflake or BigQuery.
• Deep understanding of machine learning concepts and algorithms such as Neural Networks.
• Experience with working with at least one ML framework such as Tensorflow or PyTorch.
• Proficiency in data analysis using SQL and Pandas or any related data analytics library.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines for deploying machine learning models.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools is a plus.
• Good understanding of building monitoring and alerting systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Passion for building and scaling machine learning solutions that drive business impact.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with retail or eCommerce platforms.
• Experience in building recommendation systems for end-user personalisation capabilities.

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and well-being of our employees and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program  - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have fun.
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future. 
• Comprehensive health, dental care, and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first, and we’ve got you covered. 
• Company-wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
• Hybrid Work -This hybrid role requires 2-3 days per week in our Galway, Ireland office with the option to work 2 days remotely.

Rent the Runway is an equal-opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.

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