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Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Machine Learning Engineer (Deep Learning) - Deep Learning, Credit ML

Applied Machine LearningConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Align with the mission and values of the Mercari Group and its companies.
  • Have at least 3 years of experience developing deep-learning models using frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Have at least 1 year of hands-on experience pre-training from scratch Transformer-based models with more than 1 billion parameters, large language models, or foundation models.
  • Have experience independently leading model training, experiment design, and result analysis.
  • Have at least 1 year of practical MLOps experience deploying and operating deep-learning models in production, or equivalent experience.
  • Have communication skills to collaborate with team members and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and improve core large-scale deep-learning models for next-generation credit modeling.
  • Design deep-learning model architectures based on credit-domain challenges and data characteristics.
  • Design training tasks and objective functions, and formulate and execute scaling policies based on data, model architecture, and compute budgets.
  • Design and implement GPU-based large-scale and distributed training, and optimize and stabilize model training processes.
  • Design evaluations that include offline metrics, business KPIs, risk metrics, stability, fairness, and explainability relevant to credit operations.
  • Design training and inference pipelines, optimize inference efficiency, and integrate models into production systems.
  • Design monitoring, retraining, and rollback operations, and build and maintain MLOps practices.
  • Make modeling policy decisions and trade-offs, including model scale and performance versus cost, inference latency, interpretability, and coexistence with legacy models.
  • Track current fintech and deep-learning research and evaluate its application to in-house challenges.
  • Operate and continuously improve existing credit models.
  • Build consensus and collaborate with stakeholders in product, business, legal, and compliance.
  • Provide team members with technical mentorship in deep learning and systematize knowledge.

Desired Qualifications

  • Have experience leading the design of data architectures, model architectures, objective functions, training recipes, and compute budgets for pre-training.
  • Have experience adapting and evaluating pre-trained models for downstream tasks, such as fine-tuning or transfer learning.
  • Have experience accelerating, optimizing, and tuning training, including distributed training.
  • Have experience accelerating and optimizing inference, including model compression techniques such as knowledge distillation, quantization, and pruning, or KV caching.
  • Have experience in tabular data analysis and modeling, using deep learning or other methods.
  • Have experience in data analysis and system development in cloud environments such as AWS or Google Cloud.
  • Have experience as a team or project lead and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Have experience working at financial institutions or fintech companies.
  • English proficiency at Independent level (CEFR B2) is preferred.

About the Company

Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Mercari operates a mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. Users list items by taking photos in the app, and buyers complete purchases there, with payments held in escrow until receipt is confirmed. Revenue comes from seller fees (10% in Japan; 10% plus 3.6% buyer protection in the US), plus Merpay payments and promoted listings, plus shipping partnerships for integrated delivery. The platform differentiates itself through a simple mobile experience, escrow and buyer protection, shipping integration, and a broader marketplace including Mercari Shops for sellers, with a goal of extending product life and supporting a circular economy.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2013

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