Machine Learning Engineer III, Routing Cost

As a Machine Learning Engineer III on the Routing Cost team, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of highly trafficked recommendation systems for our routing cost engine. The Navigation team at Mapbox develops and operates web services powering virtually all of Mapbox's strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics verticals.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and delivery of highly trafficked recommendation systems for the routing cost engine; Lead engineering team(s) to execute end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation organization (~80 engineers); Design and build new ML and data pipelines, and optimize existing ones; Build tools for automated quality assurance and data exploration; Leverage geospatial algorithms to optimize pipelines and create automated tuning and outlier detection algorithms; Partner with data scientists to improve models for determining patterns in movement and/or traffic; Mentor colleagues and participate in code and design reviews; Participate in an on-call rotation to keep systems available to customers 24/7

Requirements

8-10+ years of backend and ML experience; Extensive experience with Python; Experience with distributed processing pipelines (Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Dask); Experience with very large datasets, statistical analysis, data quality control, and optimizing storage; Extensive experience with cloud and infrastructure services, including deploying and managing infrastructure in cloud environments; Strong passion for clean code and robust architecture; Customer focus; Growth mindset; Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams; Strong written and verbal communication skills; Data informed mindset with the ability to make speedy decisions without perfect data

Nice to have

Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows

Benefits

Supportive health care; Parental leave; Flexibility for things that come up in life