Staff ML Engineer

Since 2006, weve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.
Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowthWork digital-first for your daily workData is a crucial part of Shopifys mission to make commerce better for everyone. We organize and interpret petabytes of data to provide solutions for our merchants and stakeholders across the organization. From pipelines and schema design to machine learning products and decision support, data science at Shopify is a diverse role with many opportunities to positively impact our success.Our Staff (aka Lead) Data Scientists focus on pushing products and the business forward, with a focus on solving important problems rather than specific tools. We are looking for talented data scientists to help us better understand our merchants and buyers so we can help them on their journey.This role is focused on building the next generation Search algorithms, incorporating the newest ML techniques. You may also work on projects involving LLM-based work. You will also create the architecture for bigger projects and mentor senior data scientists to take on the challenge of building and coding your architecture into existence.Experience in the domain of search, personalization, recommendations and machine learning techniquesCommercial experience in a data science role solving high impact business problemsMentoring senior data scientistsExperience delivering business impact through data and machine learning productsExperience building data pipelines and driving ETL design decisionsExperience creating data product strategies, shipping data products, iterating after launch, and trying againExtensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object oriented programming (OOP) fundamentalsExposure to building data products that use generative AI and LLMsExperience with statistical methods like regression, GLMs or experiment design and analysis, shipping productionized machine learning systems or other advanced techniques are also welcomeAnd remember, we want to know what youre really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as youd like in the answers on the next page.Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.Talentify provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities, including disabled veterans. Federal law requires every new hire to complete Form I-9 and present proof of identity and U.Bias-audit and data-use details:
. NYC applicants may request an alternative process or accommodation at aedt@talentify.
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