Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Search & Recommendations

<p><strong>Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK)</strong> family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond.</p> <p>Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at<a href="http://upwork.com/"> Upwork.com</a></p> <hr> <p>Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s human and AI-powered work marketplace that connects businesses with highly skilled, AI-enabled independent talent from across the globe. From entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 enterprises, companies rely on Upwork’s trusted platform and its mindful AI companion, Uma, to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With on-demand access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, Upwork enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and build agile teams for the age of AI and beyond.</p> <p>Upwork’s platform has facilitated more than $25 billion in economic opportunity for talent around the world. Learn more at Upwork.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X.</p> <hr> <p>Are you passionate about using machine learning to drive meaningful change? As a <strong>Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer</strong> at Upwork, you will leverage advanced machine learning techniques to deliver cutting-edge solutions that directly impact our global platform and user experience. You’ll work with large-scale data to solve complex problems, from improving search relevance to personalizing recommendations, and create a powerful, seamless experience for our users. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the innovation at the world’s largest work marketplace, where your work will enable our community of freelancers and clients to connect and collaborate in impactful ways.</p> <hr> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Analyze millions of structured and unstructured data to identify patterns and insights in user behavior and build meaningful features to improve model performance</li> <li>Design and implement efficient and reusable features, models and systems for different machine learning applications (classical & deep learned models) in low latency fashion</li> <li>Contribute to the performance and continued optimization of our recommendation systems: build machine learning models to improve understanding of user preferences, user intent and context to deliver accurate, relevant and personalized recommendations </li> <li>collaborate with the business, analytics, and engineering counterparts to share the discovered data stories with stats, char ... (truncated, view full listing at source)