Senior Machine Learning Engineer - United States - Remote

 Posted 6 days ago
     
 $150K - $300K per year
  
5-10 years experience
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Own the development of recommendation, search, ranking, and discovery systems for a consumer content ecosystem. Design and analyze experiments while managing retrieval systems, embeddings, and serving quality.
Job Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Location: United States (Remote)

JD in One Line

Own recommendation, search, ranking, retrieval, and discovery for a consumer content ecosystem.

What You Will Own

  •  Build recommendation and search across feed, discovery, search, and content continuation. 
  •  Own retrieval and ranking systems, including candidate generation, embeddings, two-tower models, feature engineering, and serving quality. 
  •  Design, launch, and analyze recommendation and search experiments. 
Requirements

  •  5+ years of industry experience building production ML systems with senior-level ownership. 
  •  Hands-on experience with recommendation, search, ranking, ads ranking, feed ranking, or content discovery systems. 
  •  Experience working on consumer applications, entertainment, social media, gaming, creator platforms, or other engagement-driven products. 
  •  Strong knowledge of two-tower models, embedding retrieval, candidate generation, ranking systems, and online/offline evaluation. 
Hard Filters

  •  5+ years of industry experience building production ML systems with senior-level ownership. 
  •  Hands-on experience with recommendation, search, ranking, ads ranking, feed ranking, or content discovery systems. 
  •  Experience with consumer applications, entertainment, social, gaming, creator, or engagement-driven products. 
  •  Expertise in two-tower models, embedding retrieval, candidate generation, ranking, and online/offline evaluation. 
  •  Fluency in Chinese (Mandarin) is required. 
Strong Fit

  •  Built recommendation and search systems across feed, discovery, search, and content continuation. 
  •  Owned retrieval and ranking systems, including candidate generation, embeddings, two-tower models, features, and serving quality. 
  •  Designed, launched, and analyzed recommendation/search experiments. 
Bonus Signals

  •  5+ years of production ML experience. 
  •  Strong background in recommendation systems. 
  •  Experience with search ranking. 
  •  Experience with embedding retrieval. 
Anti-Signals

  •  Cannot demonstrate core Senior Machine Learning Engineer experience focused on recommendation systems. 
  •  Not comfortable with the specified remote work arrangement. 
  •  Primarily coordination-focused with limited technical ownership or no shipped production examples. 
Interview Process

  •  Initial recruiter screen. 
  •  Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Recommendation) technical/product deep dive. 
  •  Team/founder conversation. 
Culture

  •  AI-native, fast-paced startup environment with strong ownership expectations. 
  •  Focus on building consumer AI products at the intersection of AI, social, mobile, and interactive entertainment. 
  •  Looking for engineers who ship quickly, learn from users, and take end-to-end ownership.

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