Associate Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist May 2020 Undergrad
$53K-$96K (Glassdoor est.)
(We are unable to sponsor for this role or in the future)

Fareportal is currently seeking a Associate Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist May 2020 Undergrad for our Data Science team.

At Fareportal, we create the technology that is driving innovation in the travel industry - one of the world's fastest-growing sectors. Our employees are the core of our organization and together we're revolutionizing the way people book travel.

Our portfolio of brands including CheapOair and OneTravel receive over 100 million visitors annually and drive over $4 billion in annual revenue.

In addition to competitive pay and benefits, generous time off, and frequent company-wide social events, Fareportal provides employees with an environment that nurtures diversity, creativity, and success. Our open and Agile workspace gives our employees the time and space for collaboration, brainstorming, and research and development. At Fareportal, you'll be challenged, rewarded, and motivated to work effectively day in and day out.

Our Associate Machine Learning Engineer will be handling hundreds of millions of events per day, responsible for creating and supporting machine learning models that will drive our business.

Machine Learning Engineers is at the heart of how Fareportal works and they are part software engineer and part machine learning / data scientist. You will focus on creating and supporting large scale models that we deploy to power our recommendation, pricing or other systems.

The ideal candidate will participate in the design and implementation of the entire model pipeline, from project ideation, figuring out which data to capture and store, coming up with features, to creating the final model.

We are passionate about making data-driven decisions and you will have the opportunity to shape the team's direction and create large impact.

Our team loves Python and Scala (and is not afraid of Functional Programming) and we strongly encourage DevOps approaches.

Responsibilities:
Support our data modeling efforts to ensure we are capturing the data needed to improve our modelin
Create features for our feature store
Build machine learning models
Use a variety of techniques including predictive modeling, recommendation engines, revenue
management, conversion rate optimization, and site and user experience optimization.
Our ideal candidate:

Who You Are
You are smart and love to build systems that are well tested as well as flexible
You like being around smart people who will challenge you on a daily basis.
You love to ramp up on new technologies to build awesome things with us!
Passionate about working with large unstructured and structured data sets and developing new approaches to relevance problems
Requirements
Bachelor in Computer Science, Software engineering, Data Science or related disciplines (we are open to exceptions) - Only May 2020 Undergraduates
Good knowledge of one of: Python or Scala
Solid understanding of object oriented or functional programming concepts
Familiarity with version control concepts
Good knowledge of machine learning
Good knowledge of Pyspark
Good knowledge of software engineering best practices
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