Senior Machine Learning Engineer

We’re Kuona (kuona.ai), an AI technology company that empowers consumer products and retailers to live up to their revenue goals and empowers our clients to maximize their sales and profitability through the dynamic optimization of prices, promotions, and inventories. Our AI-powered platform helps top brands like Coca-Cola and Oxxo to maximize their profits and optimize inventories. We are looking for people who are world-class, curious, innovative, bright, and work to be better every single day!

We are seeking a solution-oriented Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our product analytics team. This fully remote role offers the opportunity to develop and deploy models that enhance our user experience across all product areas. You will work with large datasets, build models to describe and predict market behavior and generate insights that shape key decisions and investment strategies.

In this position, you will face a wide range of problem-solving scenarios, from strategic to real-time, requiring extensive data collection and analysis. We need someone who can apply advanced data science skills and has experience with analytical programming languages, especially Python and the pandas library. The ideal candidate is mature, experienced, and capable of taking on challenges independently with minimal supervision.

For the current position, we can only consider candidates living within México, Colombia, Argentina. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop advanced analytics and predictive models from design through implementation in areas such as pricing, promotion, and inventory management.

• Collaborate with data and software engineers to deploy scalable models across the company's ecosystem.

• Build models and algorithms end-to-end, starting from brainstorming and data exploration to implementing production-ready code.

• Write production-ready code to implement data pipelines and machine learning models.

• Identify, diagnose, and recommend projects to improve performance.

• Design product experiments, interpret results to draw detailed and impactful conclusions, and conduct root cause analysis.

• Work with data infrastructure and product engineering teams to define data collection needs.

• Provide recommendations to assist quick product ideation and feature launch decisions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or equivalent, applying quantitative, statistical, and machine learning techniques to solve practical product problems.

• 5+ years of experience building machine learning systems and analyzing large datasets using modern tools.

• At least 2 advanced years of experience working with the pandas library.

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools.

• Ability to extract business insights and identify stories behind the data.

• Experience analyzing and conducting hypothesis-driven experimentation and A/B testing.

• Comfortable translating ambiguous problems and requirements into data-driven analyses.

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills using analytical and quantitative methodologies.

• Teamwork and leadership skills.

• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Your experience with Kuona:

• Creativity: We like that all team members can propose and create new features

• Self-management: Since we are a very horizontal company, we require that team members can decide for themselves what to work on and define priorities

• Opportunities to learn: We offer all our employees a wide opportunity to learn things that you probably wouldn't be exposed to in a corporate environment.

• High Impact: You will be involved in the growth and evolution of the company, all your contributions will be of high impact on the overall results.

• We value our culture: We are fully committed to prioritizing great results for our clients and an amazing employee experience for our people.

• Ability to work anywhere / Flexibility: We provide everyone the opportunity to design your day and execute your projects with flexibility and focus on your well-being.

Benefits:

• Competitive base compensation

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Flexible time off and 12 holidays

• Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs

• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team

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Kuona provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.