Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food’s complexities.
 We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year.
We are building a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values: proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. We aspire to continually grow as individuals and as an organization to live these values and realize our mission. We earnestly believe that Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by employing novel technology—and to have a ton of fun along the way.

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AI-driven platform reducing millions of pounds of food waste annually in the fresh food supply chain.

<div>Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!</div>Do you love digging into data and rigorously telling the story behind the numbers? Are you excited about experimentation and causal inference? Do you love translating thorny business questions into metrics and models? Do you want to answer questions that drive company strategy? We are looking for a seasoned data scientist to join our team at Afresh to work on some of our most important revenue-growing projects. Working from our Data Science and Analytics team, you’ll partner with stakeholders on our Customer teams to measure and demonstrate our product’s impact and help drive improvements. As one of the first members of the team, you will be  a key player in setting the direction of the team and creating a self-serve analytics culture across the company. Your responsibilities will also include:<ul><li>Partnering with product and business teams to develop effective success metrics (OKRs from product level to company level);</li><li>Designing experiments to measure the impact of new features on those metrics;</li><li>Partnering with engineering teams to develop product analytics and data monitoring/alerting systems;</li><li>Partnering with our machine learning teams for investigations and feature engineering; and</li><li>Becoming an expert in our data analytics pipelines and core metrics</li></ul>QualificationsWe are looking for a Data Scientist with relevant and demonstrated industry experience working with cross-functional partners and driving work from idea to completion. Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with business and external stakeholders is a must. You would also ideally have education and work experience similar to the following:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field</li><li>4+ years of relevant work experience (or Masters degree with 2+ years of relevant work experience or PhD with 1+ years of relevant work experience)</li><li>Experience with experimental design, econometrics, and/or causal inference is a plus but not required</li></ul>And these technical/software skills:<ul><li>Expert level skills at SQL (experience with dbt is a plus but not required)</li><li>Expertise with Python, R, or a similar data science scripting language</li><li>Experience with a standard data science software ecosystem: Jupyter Notebooks, pandas, scikit-learn; or RStudio, tidyverse, etc.</li><li>Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar</li></ul>Are you passionate about making a difference and eager to bring your unique skills to our team? We encourage you to apply for this position even if you don’t meet every specific criterion listed. We believe that diverse experiences and perspectives can greatly enrich our work environment and drive our success. If you’re enthusiastic about the role and confident in your ability to contribute, we want to hear from you. Bring your strengths and vision to the table, and let’s explore how you can make an impact with us.Salary band shown in CAD:Salary band shown in USD:<div>About Afresh Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices. Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference. </div>

Senior Data Scientist

<div>Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!</div>At Afresh, our mission is to make the fresh food supply chain more efficient, thus dramatically reducing food waste and making fresh, nutritious food available and accessible to everyone. Our <a href="http://a.i.-powered/">A.I.-powered</a> solutions optimize ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments for brick-and-mortar grocers. The results are powerful: grocers using Afresh are on track to reduce more than 20M pounds of food waste, while increasing fresh sales by 3%, massively increasing their profitability.Afresh is looking for a Support Engineer on our Customer Support Team to help provide unparalleled support and guidance to our customers. As a Support Engineer, you'll partner with our Customer Success, Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams to own the technical aspect of the customer lifecycle, serving as the primary escalation point for the support team and demonstrating the of Afresh to our customers.You will help resolve complex customer inquiries that arise with Afresh solutions, investigating and troubleshooting using your knowledge of SQL and databases. You'll also help to build and improve our processes as a team, helping to develop internal dashboards, define the process for in-depth investigations, and repeatable sleuthing protocol to help scale our customer support function as we continue to grow our customer base. You have support experience, a love of problem-solving, and are driven to help reduce fresh food waste in the grocery industry!We are a passionate team united by our mission to make an impact -- we hope you’ll join us!<h3>What you'll do</h3><ul><li>Be the primary escalation point for our Tier 1 Support team on guidance for tricky issues.<ul><li>Triage technical issues, resolve problems independently and escalate to appropriate team.</li><li>Take full ownership of customer issues, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, clear communication, and in many cases resolution.</li><li>Resolve tickets via email and (occasionally) on the phone with clear, concise, empathetic communication, helping to identify, debug, and escalate higher priority issues to our engineering and product teams</li><li>Investigate tricky customer problems involving app bugs, data integrity, data feeds, and machine learning, to improve both the customer experience and the product, driving our mission to reduce food waste</li><li>Respond positively when under pressure, multi-task and to deal with conflict / crisis ( i.e. realize something is important or will quickly become and incident).</li><li>Participate in on-call rotation, handling urgent incidents as they arise, including those that require fast escalation or heightened attention.</li></ul></li><li>Define and improve workflows, practices, and standards to ensure that Afresh Support Engineers can deliver fast, reliable, and accurate customer support globally<ul><li>Identify trends in requests, and highlight opportunities to improve documentation and our product.</li><li>Help to build and improve upon our debugging, triaging, and escalation protocol, including creating dashboards and repeatable queries intended to make common SQL analyses more efficient</li><li>Deeply understand Afresh's customers' needs, how our different Partners' needs differ, delighting our customers and serving as the voice of the customer back to Afresh. This includes being the Lead on a set of customer(s) as a representative of the Support org.</li><li>Research, define, and roll out or build tools to improve the speed and quality of support</li></ul></li><li>Complete projects focused on excellence in the operations of a global Support Engineering organization<ul><li>Work closely with Senior Management to help Support Engineers deliver on their components of overall company goals and objectives</li><li>Grow with the organization and our needs as a team, potentially specializing in specific Partner needs, our engineering pod structure, and/or helping to build out the team by training future teammates</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Skills &amp; experience you'll need</h3><ul><li>2+ years of experience in technical customer support</li><li>Strong SQL experience, both writing and understanding queries, and familiarity with data stores and databases</li><li>Git or other version control experience</li><li>Strong strategic and analytical thinker with exceptional execution and problem-solving capabilities</li><li>Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Comfortable discussing technical information to users and client support teams</li><li>Ability to quickly learn new software concepts</li><li>Ability to prioritize and manage several projects efficiently with a high level of autonomy.</li><li>Acute attention to detail; you live for the thrill of connecting the dots</li><li>A clear, concise, empathetic writer and exceptional communicator who can internalize customers' feedback and effectively advocate for their needs</li><li>Organized and self-motivated individual, comfortable operating within ambiguity</li><li>Strong self-starter who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, small team environment that is capable and willing to wear multiple hats and own end-to-end processes and follow-up</li><li>Customer centric and friendly - driving to achieve a happy customer, not just a resolution</li></ul>Bonus if you have:<ul><li>Experience working in startup companies.</li><li>Experience in retail or grocery</li><li>Spark experience.</li><li>Python or scripting experience.</li><li>Degree in Computer Science or related field.</li></ul>Salary Band in USD: <div>About Afresh Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices. Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference. </div>

Tier 2 Support Engineer

<div>Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!</div>About the RoleAs a Sales Director at Afresh, you will focus on strategic, enterprise sales with large grocers throughout the US. You'll identify and articulate how Afresh can unlock significant value for their business. As a  part of the Sales team at a rapidly growing startup, you'll have the opportunity to help define our processes, influence strategic decisions, and help develop the sales culture. <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Execute all aspects of the sales cycle while building and managing relationships with key, executive-level decision-makers at various grocers</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Manage and run complex sales cycles while guiding customers through every aspect of the sales process from initial contact to close    </li><li style="font-weight:400;">Prospect for new clients, build and deliver product presentations, and develop proposals   </li><li style="font-weight:400;">Develop a deep understanding of the Afresh product, competitive landscape, the grocery market, and our customers’ needs and pain points </li><li style="font-weight:400;">Partner closely with teams such as Product, Engineering, Implementation, and Customer Success to deliver a world-class customer experience </li></ul>Skills and Experience The following represents attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">5+ years of direct SaaS sales experience</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience selling complex meaningful technological or SaaS-based systems in enterprise-level partnerships to VP / C-suite stakeholders</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Solid track record of negotiating, structuring and executing complex agreements with C-suite Executives</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams through deal processes</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Highly organized, detail-oriented, and data-driven with a demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales pipeline and results</li><li style="font-weight:400;">A true self-starter who works well in ambiguity and effectively adopts change</li></ul>Afresh is committed to pay equity and providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits package. Afresh conducts a pay equity audit twice each year to ensure that jobs of similar scope and impact are paid similar amounts. The final compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as the role’s scope, complexity, internal equity, the candidate’s experience/expertise, and success through the interview process.Total Compensation (Salary plus On Target Earnings):#LI-REMOTE<div>About Afresh Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices. Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference. </div>

Sales Director

<div>Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!</div><div><div><div><div>About the Role:Afresh’s analytics platform allows teams across the company to create reliable metrics from our disparate data sources, and to use those metrics to track internal performance, power new reporting products for our customers, and drive experiment-based decision-making.Our growing suite of reporting products helps our customers understand what’s happening in their stores and how to use Afresh effectively to reduce food waste. Building these products includes strengthening the analytics platform that powers them.The Data Science and Analytics team collaborates closely with every team in the company, empowering them to build products and make decisions with data. You will regularly interact with data engineers, applied scientists, data scientists, full stack engineers, and product managers.As a Staff Data Engineer on the Data Science team, you will own the development of our analytics platform. In this role, you will evolve our data warehouse schema, solidify our transform architecture, and establish data governance patterns to serve our internal and external analytics needs. Some of your responsibilities will include:<ul><li>Improving and extending our data analytics architecture to provide reliable and accessible data for a wide range of use cases</li><li>Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to understand their data needs, and then build extensible dimensional models and semantic layer metrics that allow for consistent and reliable insights</li><li>Evolving our existing data quality and data governance processes</li><li>Mentoring and up-skilling other engineers</li></ul>This is a high-impact role with ownership of highly visible projects and a lot of room to grow in your scope.Skills and Experience:<ul><li>6+ years of experience as an data engineer, analytics engineer, data warehouse engineer, or a similar role.</li><li>Strong understanding of advanced concepts in SQL.</li><li>Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with a proven ability to facilitate cross-team and cross-functional collaboration and information sharing.</li><li>1+ years of experience working with SQL-driven transform libraries that support an ELT paradigm, like dbt or sqlmesh, at scale, including setting up CI/CD pipelines that ensure high quality transformations.</li><li>Expert knowledge about the differences between OLTP and OLAP database design.</li><li>Familiarity with the differences between data engineering concepts like Data Mesh, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, and Data Lakehouse.</li><li>Experience with setting up a semantic layer defined with code (LookML, Cube.dev, AtScale, dbt semantic layer).</li><li>Technologies: SQL, Python, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery, Spark.</li></ul>Pay Range in USD: Pay Range in CAN:</div></div></div></div><div>About Afresh Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices. Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference. </div>

Staff Data Engineer, Analytics

<div>Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!</div>The Product Engineering team at Afresh is responsible for building out the suite of products that our customers use every day, whether it’s an individual produce manager looking to order their store’s groceries for the day, corporate supervisors looking to view individual store performance, and everything in between. Grocers rely on these solutions within Afresh’s Fresh Operating System to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their workflows, all contributing to our goal of reducing food waste. You will be playing a key role in building out these solutions for our customers. Our team and products are growing at a rapid pace, which means that there will be plenty of opportunities for ownership and making your impact felt. Some of your responsibilities will include:<ul><li>Directly impact our mission of reducing fresh food waste by working on products that enable grocers to optimize fresh food operations.</li><li>Collaborate closely with our product and design teams to build rich and engaging user experiences.</li><li>Lead projects involving mobile feature development in collaboration with backend, data, and machine learning engineering teams.</li><li>Design and build reusable mobile interfaces and clean schema designs to support backend-driven application logic.</li><li>Evolve our mobile tooling and help establish engineering best practices.</li><li>Work with the team to drive improvements in process, practice, and positive engineering culture so we all grow and mature together.</li></ul>Skills and ExperiencePrimary responsibilities will be mobile development on our native iOS application. However, we also encourage generalists who can learn and contribute to the full stack and across mobile platforms, as needed.The following represents attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.<ul><li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience</li><li>4+ years of experience with mobile app development<ul><li>iOS (Swift) required</li><li>Experience with React Native a plus</li></ul></li><li>Openness and flexibility to contribute across mobile platforms (iOS &amp; React Native) and API development</li><li>Proven track record of shipping high-quality mobile apps</li><li>Strong understanding of mobile architecture and client/server design patterns</li><li>Experience acting as a project lead developing complex features</li><li>Ability to work through ambiguity and debug challenging issues</li><li>Collaborative attitude while also being highly self-directed</li><li>System-level problem-solving and excitement to tackle hard problems</li><li>Enjoy working in a fast-paced, startup environment</li></ul><div>About Afresh Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices. Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference. </div>

Senior Mobile Engineer (iOS)

<div>Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!</div><div>About the roleAfresh builds replenishment technology using AI models that are directly responsible for ordering millions of dollars of fresh inventory across the world every day. Fresh food ordering is an extremely complex high-dimensional decision-making problem. We face the complex challenges presented by decaying product, uncertain shelf lives, varying consumer demand, stochastic arrival times, extreme weather events, and tight performance constraints (to name a few). We tackle these problems with a mix of machine learning, large-scale simulation, and optimization technologies. Our team has presented work at multiple industry leading conferences, and we encourage team members to write and present their work publicly.As an Applied Scientist at Afresh focused on inventory, you will take your existing knowledge of machine learning, operations research, or statistics and apply it to the challenge of inventory estimation for perishables. You will thrive in this role if you love to work on applied, open-ended problems in research and production environments: thorough error analysis, deep understanding of the data you are modeling, feature selection, algorithm implementation, hyperparameter optimization, deployment, and production modeling. We are looking for someone who is equally adept at gaining insights from 8 hours of data analysis or 8 hours of reading papers. <div>You will research, implement, and rigorously validate improvements to our core inventory system. This will include modeling inventory counts provided by our users, incoming shipments, sales, and outflow due to spoilage. Your work will be visible from day one, will make a substantial impact on decreasing food waste, and will lead to fresher, healthier produce for millions of people across the world.</div><ul><li>You will work on improving the accuracy and calibration of our probabilistic inventory models that power our store-level ordering products. You will also drive research development for new product and business challenges.</li><li>In your first 3 months, you will acquire a comprehensive understanding of our current inventory system and modern computational approaches to large scale simulation. You will gain proficiency in our data manipulation, transformation, and estimation, and you’ll test an experimental improvement to our inventory system.</li><li>By the end of your first 6 months, you will have proposed, implemented, and rigorously validated an improvement to either inventory estimation, inventory count targeting, or food waste measurement.</li><li>By the end of your first year, you will have launched fundamental changes to our core inventory system and led research into extensions like anytime inventory estimation.</li><li>We need to make optimal ordering decisions for millions of items for weeks at a time, and our system must be fault-tolerant to an extreme. Our partners rely on our system to order millions of dollars of inventory every week, and so your code must be rigorously validated, tested, and bug-proof.</li></ul><div>Skills and Experience</div><ul><li>4+ years of industrial or academic experience building mission-critical applied systems.</li><li>Excellent communication and presentation skills. You should be able to explain complex mathematical ideas to product teams in plain English.</li><li>4+ years of experience with Python libraries like Pytorch, Sklearn and Ray.</li><li>Fluent in programmatic data analysis using SQL and Pandas.</li><li>Excellent data visualization skills.</li></ul>Pay Bands in USD:Pay Bands in CAN:</div><div>About Afresh Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices. Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference. </div>

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