Job description
Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, and brick-and-mortar locations. The platform also provides merchants with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business. Shopify was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify powers over 1,000,000 businesses in over 175 countries — and here’s how we’ve been helping more merchants survive, thrive, and navigate the impacts of COVID-19.
About the role
Data is a crucial part of Shopify’s 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.
We are currently looking for Staff Data Scientists to be part of our new visual attribute extraction technology called Deep Tagging.
Deep tagging is transforming the online shopping experience by enabling image and text-based product understanding, leveraging Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and deep learning technologies that mimic the way customers think about products.
As Staff Data Scientists on this team, you will get the opportunity to push products and business forward, focus on solving important problems and get to experience an opportunity to become an AI expert in the ML Computer Vision and the Deep Learning space.
7-10 years of commercial experience in a data science role solving high impact business problems2+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas - CV, NLP, deep learning or artificial intelligence
You have a well-built technical experience that inspires individual contributors’ creativity and innovation.
You feel comfortable designing and training Deep Learning models for object detection in images/ image classification/ text classification
You have experience with product leadership and technical decision-making.
You have been working closely with various levels of business stakeholders, from c-suite and down.
You can jump into the code on a deep level but are also able to contribute to long-term initiatives by mentoring your team
Multiple work streams excite you, you are able to use ambiguity as an opportunity for high-level thinking
Experience creating data product strategies, data products, iterating after launch, and trying again.
Extensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object-oriented programming (OOP) fundamentals
Great if you have:
Previous experience using Spark
Previous experience working with MLFlow
Previous experience using Ray
Experience with statistical methods like regression, GLMs or experiment design and analysis.
Additional Information
We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of work and we truly value your time. We are looking forward to reading your application. Shopify is now permanently remote and working towards a future that is digital by default. Learn more about what this can mean for you.
At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
#LI-REMOTE
Shopify is now permanently remote, and we’re working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere
Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.
At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.
