Overview

GitHub has over 10 million users and 30 million monthly site visitors who generate an abundance of data. The Data Science group at GitHub uses this data to build better experiences inside our products and to measure the impact of work across the company. We’re looking for excellent data scientists to join a dynamic and distributed group of machine learning engineers.

The Machine Learning team is responsible for building models and APIs at scale for understanding code and the people who develop code. As a member of this team you will build and maintain the data sets and APIs that engineers inside and outside the company build features on. You will collaborate with Application Engineering and Product leadership to get data products into our user’s hands. You and your fellow team members will be responsible for helping the company achieve some of its key strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Writing software in our ML pipeline, performing design and code review
  • Working across the model development lifecycle from data preparation to evaluation and deployment
  • Working with data engineers to craft our data pipelines and systems
  • Collaborating with application engineers and product managers as partners in your work
  • Understanding complex and diverse data sets from a variety of sources
  • Working with time-series, natural language, events, or structured code

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Experience on machine learning and predictive modeling projects
  • Strong software development skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Passionate about crafting and fostering good engineering practices and processes
  • Ability to empathize with a diverse set of engineers
  • Excited to invent new ways to understand code and developers

About GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over nine million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, our desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster.

You will have a lot of exciting things to do, and you could grow with us!

Why you should join:

Working at GitHub is, to put it simply, a special slice of the universe. You could join us in our commitment to transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and always staying classy.

Because of this unique perspective, we've established one of the most flexible and well designed physical workspaces around that encourages you to work as you work best. Right now, over 60% of our employees are based outside of our San Francisco (SOMA) headquarters and work according to how they get their best stuff done. Remote GitHubbers also come visit SF often and are encouraged to stay as long as they like!

Ensuring that you are healthy, motivated, focused and creative is how GitHub stays awesome. Part of this is ensuring that our benefits are out of this world.

In a nutshell, we've built and are growing a place in which you will truly love working.