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About the role
Material Bank is seeking a Staff Applied Scientist to drive building search and recommendations from the ground up. We are the largest marketplace for architecture and design professionals, and we are building a discovery platform that helps them find materials across hundreds of brands and surfaces intelligent recommendations as they explore. Search and recommendations are how that discovery happens.
What they're looking for
- A track record building search, recommendations, or ranking systems that shipped to real users and moved the numbers. You have done this work before, not just studied it
- An advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, machine learning, statistics, or applied math, or equivalent hands-on experience that got you to the same place
- Deep understanding of search and recommendation systems , especially retrieval, ranking, and relevance. This is the core of the role
- Strong query understanding and NLP , including semantic and embedding-based retrieval
- Real exploratory and experimental rigor : statistical modeling, experimental design, and hypothesis testing, plus comfort working in ambiguity where the right approach is not yet known
- Hands-on building ability. You prototype and implement your own ideas. We do not care which language you are strongest in
More about this role
Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. Operating in 37 countries, our platform has become the standard for design professionals around the globe. Every day, Material Bank connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands. Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.
Material Bank is seeking a Staff Applied Scientist to drive building search and recommendations from the ground up. We are the largest marketplace for architecture and design professionals, and we are building a discovery platform that helps them find materials across hundreds of brands and surfaces intelligent recommendations as they explore. Search and recommendations are how that discovery happens. The surface is wide open, the right techniques for our domain are still unsettled, and the person in this role is the one who figures them out and builds them.
This is a hands-on research role. You will not hand formulas to an engineering team and walk away. You will explore the data, form the hypothesis, prototype the approach, and prove it works, then...
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