Staff Applied Scientist, Marketplace (Canada-Only)

About Thumbtack

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes, offering personalized guidance, AI tools, and a best‑in‑class hiring experience.

About the Applied Science Team

We’re looking for applied scientists with deep expertise in machine learning, optimization, building data products, and/or statistical models. As part of a small product team you will have full ownership over your domain, so you should be a person who dreams big, then executes well.

Responsibilities

• Improve customer and service provider matching. Matching and optimization algorithms are fundamental to Thumbtack’s product: we now service millions of matches per week. Identifying better matches between customers and service providers has an incredible impact on the experience of customers and professionals transacting on our platform.
• Model complex relationships in the presence of many confounding factors. Predictive modeling p...