Machine Learning Engineer 3 - Remote

TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace, and we are on a mission to make car buying and selling easy, transparent, and efficient. We work to empower consumers with data and foster connections with our network of Certified Dealers who share our belief that truth, transparency, and fairness are the foundation of a great experience. We forge partnerships to power car-buying programs for some of America’s most trusted brands. And we continually innovate to provide useful tools, research, market context, and pricing transparency to help consumers feel empowered and confident throughout their journey. 

As consumers’ priorities and shopping habits shifted, so did we. We are building a modern-day marketplace and invite you to join the TrueCar Crew. You can have a real and direct impact on our journey as we continue to evolve and revolutionize the car-buying and selling experience.

The Opportunity:

TrueCar is seeking a talented and experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our Machine Learning and Data Engineering team. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing cutting-edge machine learning solutions to improve the automotive shopping experience for consumers. You will work on a range of engaging projects aimed at optimizing pricing models, recommendation systems, and shopper segmentation.

How you will contribute to TrueCar’s success:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to fuse ideas from business issues to machine learning solutions. You will create models that drive real value for consumers.
• Solve moderately complex problems with multilayered data sets and optimize existing machine learning libraries and frameworks.
• Write high-quality code.
• Deploy machine learning models into production, ensuring they meet performance, latency, memory, and throughput requirements.
• Identify issues and differences in data distribution that could potentially affect model performance.
• Stay up to date with developments in machine learning technology and proactively share best practices.

Your Expertise:  

• Demonstrated work experience implementing machine learning models using Python and AWS SageMaker
• Advanced Python programming skills
• Proven software development experience
• Strong background in algorithms, data structures, and ranking infrastructures
• Experience with ML frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• Distributed systems experience (Elastic Search) 
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• ML Ops experience: deploying machine learning models to production, preferred
• Solid understanding of Recommendation Systems is a plus
• Passion for working with cutting-edge Gen AI technologies

Base salary range: $128,000 - $170,000

Your TrueCar Experience

At TrueCar, we champion remote work because we know great work can happen anywhere. This flexibility allows our TrueCar Crew to live and work from anywhere in the U.S. (with some role-based exceptions). To support our remote team, we provide a home office setup that suits their needs and offer monthly reimbursements for phone and internet connectivity.

You will receive excellent benefits that include, but are not limited to, 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental premiums; a 401(k) plan with company contributions; equity; a wellness reimbursement account; and learning & development reimbursement opportunities. We also understand the importance of recharging, so we offer flexible PTO for exempt TrueCar Crew Members and a generous PTO accrual policy for non-exempt TrueCar Crew Members, in addition to 14 company-paid holidays and 2 floating holidays. In short, we care deeply about our Crew Members and have designed employee-centric programs that reflect this.

At TrueCar, we believe in the power of diversity to create a deeper understanding of our consumers and partners, driving innovation in our products. We welcome a workforce that reflects the diversity of car-buying consumers and encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law. Additionally, TrueCar will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

TrueCar does not accept unsolicited agency submissions.

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