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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform

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3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$230k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of next-generation recommendation system architectures at scale.
  • Drive best practices for model lifecycle management, experimentation, and system reliability.
  • Partner with product, infra, and data teams to align technical strategy with business goals.
  • Own complex initiatives across retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, and multi-objective optimization.
  • Lead the application of LLMs and foundation models in recommendation and user modeling.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and guide their adoption into production systems.
  • Champion AI-native development practices, including LLM-assisted coding.
  • Help establish standards and shared tooling for AI-driven engineering.
  • Lead 0–1 AI initiatives from ideation to production rollout and scaling.
  • Ensure successful prototypes evolve into maintainable, scalable platforms.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of industry experience building large-scale ML or recommendation systems.
  • Deep expertise in recommendation systems and applied machine learning in production environments.
  • Strong system design skills and the ability to influence architecture across teams.
  • Proven track record of technical leadership and cross-team collaboration.
  • Demonstrated success applying LLMs or foundation models to recommendation systems in production is a plus.
  • Experience leading 0 → 1 AI platform or product initiatives is a bonus.
  • Passion for improving engineering velocity through AI-assisted development workflows.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family.
  • Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching.
  • Paid time off and paid holidays.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • FSA and commuter benefits programs.
  • Team activity budget.

Categories

AI & MLData Science