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Position Location: Austin, TX; may work from home office anywhere in the U.S.

What We’re Looking For:

• Punchh, Inc., a subsidiary of PAR, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer

• Master’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering

• 18 months of experience as a Computer & Information Research Scientist, which must include at least 18 months of experience with each of the following:

  • Python

  • SQL

  • Apache Spark

  • AWS EMR

  • Amazon S3

  • Airflow

  • Numpy

  • Pandas

  • Matplotlib

  • Seaborn

  • Scikit-Learn

  • PySpark

  • NLTK

  • supervised learning

  • statistical modeling

  • recommendation systems

  • time series forecasting

  • natural language processing

  • quantitative analysis

  • personalization

  • experimental design

  • A/B testing

  • hypothesis testing

  • clustering

Unleash your potential: What you will be doing and owning:

• (30%) Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, marketing, and customer success groups to build machine-learning based Punchh product technologies

• (20%) Build the prediction engine that powers Punchh’s centralized customer intelligence product. Own the entire ML development life cycle.

• (20%) Support Data and Machine Learning Team Infrastructure Building. Participate in the definition of Punchh ML infrastructure: whiteboarding, RnD new ideas, fix bugs

• (15%) Partner with internal teams to engage our business clients with continuous testing and training of new Punchh products. Participate, as a machine learning expert, in pre-sales and post-sales event, together with product and sales teams

• (10%) Act as an internal advocate of a test-driven and data-driven culture: unit testing (as a developer) and AB testing (as a data scientist) ● (5%) Represent Punchh’s expertise in advanced technologies in a variety of media outlets such as client interactions, conferences, blogs, and interviews.

Interview Process:

• Interview #1: Phone Screen with Talent Acquisition Team

• Interview #2: Video interview with the Hiring Manager (via MS Teams)

• Interview #3: Video interview with the Team (via MS Teams)

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