Deliveroo Jobs – Learning Engineer

About the job

Data Science at Deliveroo

At Deliveroo we have a world-class science organisation, with a mission to promote the highest quality human and machine decision-making. We work throughout the company – in product, business and platform teams to answer some of the most interesting questions out there.

Our team members use technical skills from the whole spectrum of data science: we build analytical tools; run experiments; perform causal analysis; inform planning and prioritisation with impact estimates; build production machine learning and optimisation models; and upskill the entire company in data literacy and data-driven decision-making.

Our data scientists come from many disciplines including mathematics, statistics, economics/econometrics, physics, psychology, finance, computer science, operations research, cognitive neuroscience and engineering. Some are formally trained in data science, some are not. We have team members from all over the world, and have a dedicated data science diversity committee.

Data scientists and Machine Learning Engineers at Deliveroo report into our data science management team, and we have an active data science community, with guest lecturers; a technical review process; a career progression framework; and plenty of opportunities to learn new things. We have team members from all over the world, and have a dedicated data science diversity committee.

Further, we have clear career pathways for both managers and individual contributors.

About The Role

You will develop the algorithmic and machine-learning systems that power Deliveroo. You will work in a cross-functional team alongside engineers, data scientists and product managers to develop systems that make automated decisions at massive scale. Your team has independence and works at some of the most interesting problems at the intersection of riders, consumers, and restaurants. We evaluate the performance of all our decision-making machines through our world class experimentation platform.

You will build intelligent decision-making machines that may:

• Optimise our delivery network by making rider assignment decisions; predicting how long a leg of the delivery journey will take; or mitigating real-time delays.
• Work out how many riders we need in a particular place at a particular time.
• Optimise consumer and rider fees.
• Improve the consumer experience by showing the most relevant restaurants and dishes.
• Detect fraud and abuse from consumers, riders, and restaurants.
• Assist restaurants in optimising their presence on Deliveroo, for example by recommending that they improve their menus or photography, or add a popular dish.
• Create an ML platform to improve our ML and optimisation capabilities.

Requirements:

• You are someone who knows the fundamentals of machine learning and when they should be applied.
• You can translate a fuzzy business problem or objective into a well-thought-out algorithmic solution. You get satisfaction from seeing your algorithms shipped and driving measurable impact to the business.
• Experience with end-to-end model productionisation.
• Experience mentoring junior colleagues.
• A bias to simplicity, where you care most about achieving impact.

Benefits And Diversity

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer many great benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are – your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of scaling up one of the most exciting companies in tech.