{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e3b6d54f7cad115b22db23fe","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e3b6d54f7cad115b22db23fe","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e3b6d54f7cad115b22db23fe","title":"Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer","description":"Location\nStrava SF\nEmployment Type\nFull time\nLocation Type\nHybrid\nDepartment\nDepartmentTechnologyEngineering\nCompensation\n$180K – $200K • Offers Equity\nThis range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package during the hiring process.\nAt Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future.\nFor more information, please contact your talent partner.\n\nAbout Strava\nStrava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today.\nOur mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.\nAbout This Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join the growing AI and Machine Learning team at Strava. This team is responsible for developing sophisticated machine learning models and systems, plus leveraging generative AI technologies. Together this provides value to Strava athletes in various aspects including personalization, recommendations, search, and trust and safety.\nThis is an important role on the team to develop and expand the platform behind the curtain. This lets us build models of higher quality with less friction. It helps ensure our models are served with stability and reliability, while ensuring we monitor model performance carefully. Ultimately you won’t just help with the things we are doing now, but also unlock our technological capabilities for the future.\nWe follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half your time on-site in our San Francisco office— three days per week.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwn End to End Systems: Drive key projects to power AI/ML at Strava end-to-end from gathering stakeholders requirements to ground up developer to driving adoption and optimizing the experience\nInteract with a Rich and Large Dataset: Explore and help leverage Strava’s extensive unique fitness and geo datasets from millions of users to extract actionable insights, inform product decisions, and optimize existing features\nContribute to a Well Loved Consumer Product: Work at the intersection of AI and fitness to help launch and maintain product experiences that will be used by tens of millions of active people worldwide\nYou Will Be Successful Here By:\nHolding empathy and perspective: Work closely with engineers and data scientists to understand the opportunities to help them succeed; they will be your customers!\nLeading as an owner: Owning your work end-to-end and being accountable for the outcomes in the projects you lead, influencing the ML team, partner teams, and landing impact for the business. Ensure the end-to-end system delivers as expected through collaboration with partners.\nCollaborating in and across teams: Build relationships, advocate and communicate with cross-functional partners and product verticals to identify opportunities and bring your technical vision to life.\nDriving innovation with product in mind: Stay up-to-date with the latest research in machine learning, AI, and related fields. Experiment, advocate, and gain buy-in for innovative techniques to enhance our existing platform, resulting in step-function changes to how we build AI at Strava.\nBeing passionate about the work you are doing and contributing positively to Strava’s inclusive and collaborative team culture and values\nWhat You’ll Bring to the Team:\nHave worked on complex, ambiguous platform challenges and broken them down into manageable tasks with both strategies and tactical execution.\nDemonstrated technical leadership in leading projects and the ability to mentor and grow early-career team members.\nHave demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a collaborative approach to drive business impact across teams.\nHave worked with a variety of MLOps tools that fulfill different ML needs (like FastAPI, LitServe, Metaflow, MLflow, Kubeflow, Feast)\nAre experienced in production ML model operational excellence and best practices, like automated model retraining, performance monitoring, feature logging, A/B testing\nExperience with generative AI technologies around LLM evaluation, vector stores, and agent frameworks.\nHave built backend production tools and services on cloud environments like (but not limited to) AWS, using languages Python, Terraform, and other similar technologies.\nHave built and worked on data pipelines using large scale data technologies (like Spark, SQL, Snowflake)\nHave experience building, shipping, and supporting ML models in production at scale\nHave experience with exploratory data analysis and model prototyping, using languages such as Python or R and tools like Scikit learn, Pandas, Numpy, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sagemaker\n\nWhy Join Us?\nMovement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.\nOur global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.\nWhen you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.\nStrava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.\nStrava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 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Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today.\nOur mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.\nAbout This Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join the growing AI and Machine Learning team at Strava. This team is responsible for developing sophisticated machine learning models and systems, plus leveraging generative AI technologies. Together this provides value to Strava athletes in various aspects including personalization, recommendations, search, and trust and safety.\nThis is an important role on the team to develop and expand the platform behind the curtain. This lets us build models of higher quality with less friction. It helps ensure our models are served with stability and reliability, while ensuring we monitor model performance carefully. Ultimately you won’t just help with the things we are doing now, but also unlock our technological capabilities for the future.\nWe follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half your time on-site in our San Francisco office— three days per week.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwn End to End Systems: Drive key projects to power AI/ML at Strava end-to-end from gathering stakeholders requirements to ground up developer to driving adoption and optimizing the experience\nInteract with a Rich and Large Dataset: Explore and help leverage Strava’s extensive unique fitness and geo datasets from millions of users to extract actionable insights, inform product decisions, and optimize existing features\nContribute to a Well Loved Consumer Product: Work at the intersection of AI and fitness to help launch and maintain product experiences that will be used by tens of millions of active people worldwide\nYou Will Be Successful Here By:\nHolding empathy and perspective: Work closely with engineers and data scientists to understand the opportunities to help them succeed; they will be your customers!\nLeading as an owner: Owning your work end-to-end and being accountable for the outcomes in the projects you lead, influencing the ML team, partner teams, and landing impact for the business. Ensure the end-to-end system delivers as expected through collaboration with partners.\nCollaborating in and across teams: Build relationships, advocate and communicate with cross-functional partners and product verticals to identify opportunities and bring your technical vision to life.\nDriving innovation with product in mind: Stay up-to-date with the latest research in machine learning, AI, and related fields. Experiment, advocate, and gain buy-in for innovative techniques to enhance our existing platform, resulting in step-function changes to how we build AI at Strava.\nBeing passionate about the work you are doing and contributing positively to Strava’s inclusive and collaborative team culture and values\nWhat You’ll Bring to the Team:\nHave worked on complex, ambiguous platform challenges and broken them down into manageable tasks with both strategies and tactical execution.\nDemonstrated technical leadership in leading projects and the ability to mentor and grow early-career team members.\nHave demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a collaborative approach to drive business impact across teams.\nHave worked with a variety of MLOps tools that fulfill different ML needs (like FastAPI, LitServe, Metaflow, MLflow, Kubeflow, Feast)\nAre experienced in production ML model operational excellence and best practices, like automated model retraining, performance monitoring, feature logging, A/B testing\nExperience with generative AI technologies around LLM evaluation, vector stores, and agent frameworks.\nHave built backend production tools and services on cloud environments like (but not limited to) AWS, using languages Python, Terraform, and other similar technologies.\nHave built and worked on data pipelines using large scale data technologies (like Spark, SQL, Snowflake)\nHave experience building, shipping, and supporting ML models in production at scale\nHave experience with exploratory data analysis and model prototyping, using languages such as Python or R and tools like Scikit learn, Pandas, Numpy, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sagemaker\n\nWhy Join Us?\nMovement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.\nOur global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.\nWhen you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.\nStrava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.\nStrava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 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