Machine Learning Engineer III

Machine Learning Engineer

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

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Expedia Group Advertising seeks a talented and motivated Machine Learning Engineer. In this role, you will contribute to the development and enhancement of our next-generation advertising marketplace. Your technical skills and collaborative mindset will help deliver impactful solutions for advertisers and travelers worldwide.

As a global leader in travel industry advertising, Expedia Group Advertising connects advertisers with millions of travelers. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will play an important role in building and maintaining high-performance systems that support Expedia Group's expanding advertising network. Your focus will be on delivering innovative solutions, ensuring system reliability, and supporting a culture of collaboration within the engineering team.

In this role, you will:

• Work in a cross-functional geographically distributed team of Machine Learning engineers and ML Scientists to design and code large scale batch and real-time pipelines on the Cloud.
• Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with seniors and peers in crafting and implementing the technical vision of the team.
• Act as a point of contact for junior team members, offering advice and direction.
• Actively participate in all phases of the end-to-end ML model lifecycle (includes feature engineering, model training, model scoring, model validation) for enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems in production environments.
• Collaborate with global team of data scientists, administrators, data analysts, data engineers, and data architects on production systems and applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate generative AI solutions into existing workflow systems.
• Participate in code reviews to assess overall code quality and flexibility.
• Define, develop and maintain artifacts like technical design or partner documentation.
• Maintain, monitor, support and improve our solutions and systems with a focus on service excellence.

Experience and qualifications:

• Degree in software engineering, computer science, informatics or a similar field.
• Experience: 5+ years if Bachelors, 3+ year if you are Masters.
• Solid Coding and Problem Solving skills in Java/Python/Scala & Data Structures.
• Hands-on experience with OOAD, design patterns, SQL and NoSQL.
• Must have experience in big data technologies, in particular Spark, Hive, Hue and Databricks.
• Experience in developing and deploying Batch and Real Time Inferencing applications.
• You have a good understanding of machine learning pipelines and ML Lifecycle.
• Familiarity of basics with both traditional ML and Gen-AI algorithms and tools.
• Experience of using cloud services (e.g. AWS).
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow).
• Passionate about learning, especially in the areas of micro-services, system architecture, Data Science and Machine Learning.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

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