Staples

Sr. Software Engineer II/ Sr Machine Learning Engineer

Posted on: 22 Jun 2023

Framingham, MA

Job Description

At Staples our Digital Solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, Agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners, and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services. If you want to be on the front lines, driving one of the greatest technology transformations of the 21st Century, you should join our team!

Staples' Order Management and Supply Chain Systems team enables scalable, efficient, and intelligent order and delivery solutions, and exceptional customer experience through our expertise in business domains and technologies. We are currently taking a platform re-engineering approach to consolidate, modernize, and simplify legacy applications by standardizing interfaces, building micro-services, and/or integrating with 3rd party software that'll effectively reduce tech debt and vendor footprint, and improve time to market and service levels.

What you'll be doing:

We are looking for dedicated machine learning engineer to help reimagine our systems from the ground up. We need talented people to help design the next generation of technology applications. You are hands-on and will be developing predictive algorithms producing high-level architecture designs, building, and operating services at scale. You will be partnering with a team Software/Data/ML/Applied engineers for building high performing applications that interact with large scale distributed systems.

What you bring to the table:

Instill best practices in development of algorithms, design, build, and maintain systems that deals with streaming big data for analytics and Machine learning use cases.
Experience in working in teams in a Dev/ML Ops culture
Experience with machine learning fundamentals.
Participate in all phases of software development including concept, design, prototyping, and production release
Experience with Big Data solutions and knowledge of machine learning fundamentals.

Qualifications :

What's needed- Basic Qualifications

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering/OR or related field (MS/PhD preferred)
10+ years of professional software engineering experience
Demonstrated success in development and design of large scale big data systems that perform complex event processing, machine learning and/or data mining
Expertise in Reinforcement Learning and Combinatorial Optimization
Strong diagnostic, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
Experience building applications on one or more public Cloud Platform (e.g. Azure, AWS)
Experience designing and implementing highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed ML applications with focus on ML Operations

What's needed- Preferred Qualifications

Strong scripting skills in a Linux/Unix environment (e.g.: Bash, Python, Perl)
Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores on-premise and in the Cloud (e.g. SQL Server/Azure, PostgreSQL/Azure, MongoDB, MySQL, Cosmos DB/Azure, Aurora/AWS, Teradata, Oracle)
Experience working with data processing frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka) a plus
Prior experience building demand forecasting platforms
Any Involvment of hands-on work doing applied research a plus

We Offer:

Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays), Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more perks and benefits

Staples

Framingham, MA

Staples, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates office products superstores. It operates in two segments, North American Delivery and North American Retail. The company offers a range of office supplies, business technology products, facility and breakroom supplies, computers and mobility products, and office furniture under the Staples, Quill, and other proprietary brands. It also provides print and marketing, as well as technology services.

The company sells its office products and services directly to businesses and consumers through its Staples.com, Staples.ca, and Quill.com Websites; and retail stores, as well as Staples Business Advantage contracts. As of January 28, 2017, it operated approximately 1,583 retail stores in 46 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, and 10 provinces and 2 territories in Canada, as well as in Argentina, Australia, and Brazil; 78 distribution and fulfillment centers in 25 states in the United States and 7 provinces in Canada, as well as in China, Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan, and Australia. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. As of September 12, 2017, Staples, Inc. was taken private.