Senior ML Engineer, Nurture

Carvana•Tempe, AZ

6d•Onsite

About The Position

About Carvana At Carvana, we’re changing the way people buy and sell cars. With an ambitious vision and a fundamentally different approach designed to be fun, fast, and fair, Carvana became the fastest-growing automotive retailer in history. We expanded nationally, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, sold our 1 millionth car, and reached the Fortune 500, all in just eight years. Today, with 4 million retail customers and counting, Carvana is both the fastest-growing and the most profitable public automotive retailer, and we’re just getting started. We continue to raise the bar for our customers as we tackle the enormous opportunity still ahead in the largest consumer vertical. Working here means being part of a team that embraces change, celebrates creative problem solving, and always strives to be better. At Carvana, you’ll have the opportunity to take on meaningful challenges, learn quickly, and help shape the future of automotive retail. If you’re driven to grow and make an impact as part of a collaborative team, you’ll fit right in. Learn more about what it’s like to work here from the people that already do . This is a fully on-site position, Monday through Friday, at our corporate HQ in Tempe, Arizona. About the team and position The Nurture team is a talented and humble group of people with backgrounds in Product, Design, Data Science and Engineering, that are focused on building out our core product: a communication platform that delivers the right message to the right person at the right time in the right channel. Our scope includes communications ranging from marketing to transactional messages, delivered through email, SMS, and push notifications. You will dive deep into machine learning and LLM tools as we build the next generation of AI powered communication products. We’re looking for incredibly intelligent, entrepreneurial, hard-working go-getters who are excited about working in a product-driven technology company to help us drive the best customer experience. You’re likely a great fit if you have a strong background in software development, expertise in system design and architecture, and strong problem-solving skills. Ideally, you are fanatical about building robust, scalable solutions, optimizing performance, and seeing your technical architecture come to life. You love addressing high-level technical challenges quickly and autonomously while building deep relationships with product stakeholders.

Requirements

5+ years experience with Python
3+ years Spark or other big data processing (Hadoop, Flink) experience
Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
Experience with CICD processes (GitHub, GitLab, dbx)
Expert knowledge of data integration concepts, business intelligence and data warehousing and implementing large systems
Understand how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, data storage, query optimization, AWS infrastructure, etc.)
Production quality coding standards and patterns

Nice To Haves

Experience building products that use LLMs/GenAI
Experience with Claude, Copilot, Codex or other developer AI assistants
Experience building products with machine learning components, e.g. ranking systems
Snowflake or BigQuery

Responsibilities

Deployment and Integration: Full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating/monitoring in production.
Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Work with the Data Science team to build out services for training, monitoring and enhancing machine learning models’ accuracy.
Improve Business Outcomes: Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and data analysts to ensure correct and timely implementation of requests.

Benefits

Full-Time position with a competitive salary and Carvana stock compensation.
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
401K with company match.
A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more.
A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally.
Access to opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge with others across the organization.
A company culture focused on high performance and bar-raising, with vast opportunity to learn and grow.

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