Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

Would you like to build computer vision models to search for the perfect photo describing businesses on Yelp? Maybe build a model to suggest reviews to write based on text and sequence embeddings? Or build the backend processing to execute and run these models? How about doing these at scale? Does taking billions of data points and helping hundreds of millions of consumers connect with millions of businesses sound exciting? Come and join us!

The Content and Contributor Intelligence (CCI) team at Yelp is looking for a remote leader to help this amazing team. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the group in building machine-learning models to find the most valuable information about the millions of businesses Yelp serves. In turn, this data is provided to Yelp consumers, making us the most trusted and informative platform for everyone.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. 

• Manage a team of engineers focused on building Machine Learning models to extract information from raw content like Text, Photos and Videos and share that information online and offline
• Coach and mentor engineers of all experience levels, from new college graduates to senior engineers.
• Participate in the hiring process, helping to find potential candidates, interviewing, and closing new hires
• Foster and grow a fun, diverse and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values.
• Work closely with our infrastructure teams to ensure we use the right systems (storage, compute, networking) for scaling a model most effectively.
• Ensure model quality by reviewing ML models and ML development processes for team members.
• Participate in discussions surrounding future applications and/or systems regarding their appropriateness of solution.
• Foster and build a fun, diverse, and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values.

• Previous experience as a manager with excellent people management skills and the ability to hire and grow a talented team of engineers.
• Experience building Computer Vision models that can process user submitted images to extract useful information.
• Experience building Natural Language Processing models that can extract information from text content like user reviews.
• Experience using LLMs to develop features based on text and / or images
• Experience with building effective services that serve inferred content to clients.
• Have command of your favorite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Java, Objective-C, C++, etc.
• Comfortable working and coordinating requirements across teams.

• The top end of the compensation range for this role exceeds $200,000 annually. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data and years of experience. The actual compensation offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience and skill set. You may also be offered restricted stock units and benefits.

• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
• This role is posted to fill an existing position.
• You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488.

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