About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 44 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 227 million freight posts in 2021, and a database of $126 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

DAT is looking for a Data Science ML Engineering Lead to join our Data Science team in Denver, Colorado.

Note: This position will require your ability to come into the office 2x/week (Tue/Thu). Location: 5050 S. Syracuse Street, Denver

Candidate profile

The Data Science team at DAT plays a central role building next-generation models, algorithms and tools to deliver insights to our customers, helping them streamline, strengthen, and grow their businesses. Our team’s products run the gamut of data science topics, from time series forecasting, economic modeling, classification, and recommenders. 

As part of the Data Science ML Engineering team, you will help us move prototypes into production, support all existing ML and statistics products, grow our ML Operations tool set, integrate DS products with the rest of engineering, and engage in research discussions and planning.

What You’ll Do

• Splitting your time roughly half-and-half between hands-on engineering work for the DS family of teams, and providing technical leadership to the ML Engineering team.
• Leadership Activities
• The team manager owns the decision of what work is prioritized when, and the ML Engineering Lead takes responsibility for how to get those priorities accomplished.
• Assists the team in breaking large tasks down into smaller, well-groomed actionable tasks. Identify tasks which need more clarity, and places where there are gaps in requirements or capabilities and solve or escalate those issues appropriately.
• Run most of the team’s standups, and make sure that all the work being undertaken is correctly scoped and has an appropriate path to success.
• Communicates regularly with the team manager to stay in lock-step on all team priorities and initiatives
• Communicates all blockers, resource needs, timeline changes to the manager, team, and interested stakeholders. Makes timely and clear feasibility assessments for requested work.
• Assists the manager in cross-team interactions, ensuring smooth, well-supported hand-offs between teams.
• The lead, along with the team manager, acts as a mentor and coach to other ML engineers as they continually improve their technical and professional skills.
• Involved in most of the team’s code reviews and PRs, and takes shared responsibility with the manager in ensuring that all DS products are the highest reasonable quality.
• Make recommendations to the team, and to the manager for any work they deem necessary to maintain a high level of quality, both for new and existing products.
• Stays connected with the broader engineering organization and keeps up to date on company-wide engineering initiatives which affect the DS teams and products.

• Engineering Activities
• Supporting the data science family of teams in moving prototype models into production
• Developing sound operations tools for training, release, and rollback of production models
• Developing model monitoring systems to ensure long-term model health and efficacy
• Ownership of production models, ensuring they are properly updated and monitored for efficiency, accuracy, and costs.
• Working with DAT engineering teams to ensure seamless integrations between DS and the rest of DAT’s engineering products.
• Refactoring older data science codebases to bring them up-to-date with current tools and processes
• Supporting data science researchers as a peer, offering both scientific and technical input and feedback

 
The Skills You’ll Need

• BS or higher degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Computer Science or other STEM disciplines
• Four years experience as a data scientist, ML engineer, or similar experience.
• Professional experience building and supporting ML models and processes which are in production and impacting the business
• Professional-level python programming
• Professional experience using:
• AWS cloud computing and cloud storage resources for data science projects
• Terraform for AWS
• Github and Github Actions

Bonus Skills

None of the following are required to successfully apply, but candidates with these types of experience may be especially well-suited to this role:

• Industry or academic experience in transportation logistics
• Building or running cloud orchestration systems for data science projects. Such as AWS Sagemaker, Airflow, DataRobot MLOps, or similar.
• Maintaining custom ML models in the cloud
• Building cloud-based data transformation pipelines (ETL)
• Using and/or maintaining CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Codefresh, or similar
• Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization technologies
• SQL, especially with Snowflake

For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $145,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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