Best Buy Co. has an opening in Boston, Massachusetts, for an Associate Director, Applied Machine Learning – Personalization & Recommendation position. Lead the design and development of machine learning (ML) products & services for personalization and recommendation domains. Manage a team of ML scientists and engineers leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning techniques such as Gen AI, supervised & unsupervised learning, Embeddings, reinforcement learning, and Graph Neural Networks. Apply software engineering skills to lead development and deployment of solutions. Utilize knowledge of machine learning and software engineering to contribute to the roadmap of core machine learning capabilities. Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines. Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity. Develop and interpret organizational goals, policies, and procedures. Evaluate project proposals to assess project feasibility and requirements. Must live within commuting distance of Boston. Requires Master’s degree or an equivalent foreign degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering. Position requires at least 3 years of experience (1) building ML and/or AI driven products; (2) managing a team of ML scientists and engineers; (3) using the following data science/analytics programming languages (Python, R, and/or Julia). At least 2 years of this experience must include: (1) building production grade ML models using at least one deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, MXNet, and/or ONNX); (2) experience with CI/CD, MLOps, DataOps, and Orchestration platforms for end-to-end model building, training, serving, and monitoring (KubeFlow, Prefect, Apache Airflow, and/or MLFlow). Position is remote but must live within commuting distance of Boston. The pay ranges from $194,626/year to $223,600/year. Best Buy offers standard benefits offered to full-time employees (which include medical, life insurance, 401(k), disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation). Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants should apply online by going to https://jobs.bestbuy.com req#: 976781BR, or by sending resumes and cover letters to Kelly Vannier, kelly.vannier@bestbuy.com
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