Machine Learning Engineer

Animaj is hiring!

About

At Animaj, we want to stimulate the minds of young generations to make their world more colorful and inspiring – by flipping the script on the industry and being the best partners for independent creators.

We are animation entrepreneurs, building the ultimate gateway between these talented content creators and wide-eyed young audiences everywhere.

Our model is to acquire high-potential YouTube channels aimed at kids and families and scale them into Franchises (through content development, original productions, consumer products, and brand partnerships) - by providing strategic vision, powerful framework of support, expertise, financial resources, and state-of-the-art tools.

We are backed by a world-class team of investors including LeftLane, XAnge, Daphni, Bootstrap, Resonance, and some of the best tech business angels; we have raised ~ €100m since our creation in May 2022.

We are a fast-growing company aimed at changing the paradigm in the Kids entertainment industry.

The animation industry is ready for a revolution.

It has already seen major breakthroughs in the last century. First with the industrialization of the production process, leading to long-lasting global brands. Then with the transition from hand drawings to computer-assisted animation.

And yet, in many ways, the existing model is outdated, especially for independent studios. For them, the process is tedious manual, and production cycles are lengthy and expensive – with little room for creative iteration and almost no chance to gain the respect they deserve.

Job Description

At Animaj we want to revolutionize 3D-animated content by equipping our creators and studios with innovative tools that will dramatically speed-up their content production.

At Animaj we’re developing cutting-edge machine learning based engines to better identify business opportunities, to understand audiences and entertainment content trends, and to recommend optimizations for their channels/content. These engines are powered by massive amounts of data on kids entertainment content that we collect from several sources (including Youtube APIs and social media) and that we ingest in our data platform.

Animaj is now looking for Machine Learning Engineer to help us to decide and implement the best data strategies to model the interest of the audience.

In fact, you will design, optimize and deploy algorithms. These algorithms are at the core of our understanding of our audiences and kids entertainment trends.

You will report to the Head of Data and will collaborate and collaborate closely with our data engineers as well as M&A, Ops and Digital Growth teams.

This is a great opportunity to join an entrepreneurial adventure at an early stage and to lay the foundations of Animaj’s ambitious tech vision.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, evaluate models for business opportunities sourcing, audience/content understanding and channels optimization (eg channel pricing, CPM estimation, topic extraction from videos, audience interests, reverse-engineer YT recommendations) leveraging data from several sources (Youtube API, social networks, etc)
  • Perform multi-modal analysis to extract concepts from a pool of videos
  • Perform explorations to understand what drives kids entertainment channels/videos performance on Youtube
  • Design and run AB tests and experimentation to identify optimization levers for our Youtube channels/videos
  • Manage machine learning models in production (logging, monitoring, alerting)
  • Feed models outputs into our data pipelines to enrich our data models
  • Collaborate with our data engineers to specify what data points/sources should be ingested

Our Stack

Python, AWS, S3, Managed Airflow, Fargate, ECS, Rekognition, PostgreSQL, SQL, Alchemy, GitHub Actions, Docker, MetaBase

Preferred Experience

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience designing, training and deploying in production machine learning models
  • You’re up to date with the most recent models and techniques in NLP, RL, DL fields and know how to best apply them to concrete business problems
  • Coding skills in Python
  • Ability to formalize, analyze and solve complex problems
  • Demonstrated strong autonomy, proactiveness, pragmatism and technical leadership
  • Ability to explain complex scientific and technical concepts to any audience clearly
  • English proficiency and experience working in an international environment

Recruitment Process

Our Process

  • First Interview with our TAM
  • Tech Interview and Case Study with our Head of Data
  • Final Interview with our CEO
  • Reference heck

Benefits

  • Stock Options - We want all of our early employees to participate fully in Animaj's success.
  • Health Care - We provide totally subsidized/covered health care.
  • Remote Policy - Dedicated to your work-life balance, we offer 2 days remote and 3 days per week at the office. Why ? Because we think that magic occurs when people work together, but we also believe that there are times when you need to be able to work uninterrupted.
  • Work environment - A stimulating workplace that fosters creativity, autonomy and leadership.

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Education Level: Master's Degree
  • Experience: > 5 years
  • Possible partial remote