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 problems are everywhere across ou...