Local Intent Data Mining Specialist

Who you are

• 5+ years as an Applied Scientist or ML Engineer on query understanding, intent, semantic search, or NLU
• Production experience shipping models that serve real users — not purely offline or research work
• Hands-on with embeddings, semantic search, intent classification, taxonomy, or interest-graph construction
• Experience bringing LLMs into production systems
• Comfort working at consumer-internet data scale
• Background at Google Search / Ads quality, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, DoorDash, Instacart, Amazon Search/Alexa, or Apple
• Built a user-intent taxonomy or interest graph at a consumer internet company
• Consumer-intent or personalization work specifically at a local platform (DoorDash, Instacart)

What the job involves

• You will build the systems that understand what local consumers actually want — turning raw queries, behavior, and context into structured intent
• This means query understanding, user-intent classification, semantic search, and the intent taxonomies and interest graphs that power discovery across local categories
• You will bring LLMs into production, not the lab, to make local search and recommendations genuinely understand consumer intent
• Build query-understanding, user-intent classification, and semantic-search models for local consumer demand
• Design and grow intent taxonomies and interest graphs over local categories and merchants
• Ship LLM-powered features into production for search and recommendations at consumer scale
• Work with embeddings, retrieval, and NLU to connect messy consumer language to local supply
• Define metrics and run experiments that tie intent quality to downstream conversion

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• FSA and commuter benefit programs
• Team activity budget