Machine Learning Engineer, Search

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub. 

About you 

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

About your skills

• Team Collaboration: You excel in fostering collaboration within cross-functional teams, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise to achieve common goals and deliver successful outcomes.
• Collaborative Problem-Solving: You thrive in cross-functional teams, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise to tackle complex problems collaboratively. Your ability to facilitate effective communication and consensus-building fosters a culture of teamwork and innovation
• Empathy and User-Centric Mindset: You prioritize understanding the needs and experiences of users, empathizing with their challenges, and leveraging insights to design intuitive and impactful solutions that enhance the user experience.

About this role 

As a key contributor on Udemy's Search Engineering team, you’ll help design and build innovative search solutions that power learning for millions of users globally. You'll work on cutting-edge technologies, leveraging your machine learning expertise to solve complex search challenges and enhance Udemy's AI-powered capabilities. This role provides the opportunity to collaborate with a talented team, shape the future of search at Udemy, and continually grow your technical skills while having a meaningful impact on learners around the world.

What you'll be doing

• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers, to deliver high-performance search experiences that align with Udemy’s mission.
• You will drive innovative ideas to build, refine and optimize our search and information retrieval systems to meet the needs of millions of users worldwide.
• You will contribute to vector search systems to enhance performance and scalability.
• You will experiment with and deploy machine learning models that enhance search relevance, ranking, and personalization, improving the learner experience.

What you’ll have

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in backend or machine learning engineering, with a proven ability to design and implement scalable, reliable systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, Python, or Node.js, with a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Strong understanding of machine learning principles, especially in the context of search or information retrieval systems.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming concepts, and experience applying them to design and build efficient, scalable systems and solve complex problems efficiently.
• Familiarity with machine learning pipelines, from model training to deployment and monitoring, and how they integrate into production systems.
• Familiarity with Big Data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, and Hive for processing and analyzing large datasets.
• Understanding of data pipelines and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, which are often critical in preparing data for machine learning models.
• Experience optimizing code for performance and efficiency.
• Proven track record in debugging and troubleshooting complex technical issues in a live production environment.
• A passion for continuous learning and staying updated on emerging trends in machine learning, backend engineering, and search technologies.

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. 

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. 

Our Benefits Start With U

Our benefits package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:

• Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage

• Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement. 16 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay

• Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support

• Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development

• Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities

• Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)

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