Patreon is looking to fund the creative class by building the best creator platform, and the Safety Engineering team is responsible for reducing risks to creators, fans, and Patreon through engineering techniques such as content moderation, fraud detection, and account integrity.
Requirements
- Experience working in an end-to-end machine learning team environment: analyzing data, building and iterating on machine learning models, writing production-level code and shipping to production, monitoring performance, and A/B testing.
- Write clean and robust code in Python or other programming languages and have a keen eye for detail in code reviews.
- Experience debugging complex systems with a systematic approach.
- Curious mindset and dive deeply into datasets to understand our product and customers.
- Solid communication skills and write clear documentation.
- Growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills.
- Energized about building the first version of systems and are passionate about empowering creators with new machine learning solutions.
Responsibilities
- Conduct exploratory data analyses and develop machine learning models to identify risks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as product, engineering, design, legal, and trust and safety to design effective machine learning solutions.
- Analyze and prepare training data, including using crowdsourcing data labeling techniques.
- Train and iterate on machine learning models using novel techniques.
- Deploy machine learning models to production and write backend code when necessary to properly deploy the model.
- Debug models when observability shows performance gaps, and iterate on models.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent
- Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.
- Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
- Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver.
- Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.
