Match Group

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Match Group AI)

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1 year ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior

Responsibilities

  • Solve business problems from Match Group products by defining appropriate AI/ML problems and selecting effective methodologies.
  • Contribute to new products and features from ideation and prototyping through delivery to users.
  • Research and develop large language models and multimodal models specialized for the dating domain.
  • Lead technical work on multimodal data handling, data bias and noise mitigation, product-aligned evaluation metrics, model training, and inference optimization.
  • Design reliable ML training pipelines and deployment processes.
  • Lead technical decisions in AI projects involving two or more ML engineers and collaborate with multiple professional disciplines.
  • Explore and share new technologies and contribute to external research publications or open-source code when appropriate.

Requirements

  • PhD in an AI/ML-related field, five or more years of relevant industrial project experience, or equivalent capability.
  • Broad understanding of AI/ML and deep expertise in at least one specific domain.
  • Ability to define and solve ambiguous business or technical problems through sound technical decisions.
  • Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and Python development, including maintaining high-quality collaborative code.
  • Ability to design stable ML training pipelines and deployment processes.
  • Ability to lead technical decisions in AI projects involving at least two ML engineers.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple disciplines.
  • Fluent Korean communication and basic English communication.
  • Preferred qualifications include top-tier AI/ML publication or competition experience, large-scale LLM training leadership, large-scale software development and architecture or systems design, A/B testing and KPI definition, SQL-based data analysis, causal and statistical analysis, engineering team leadership, and PO/PM experience.
  • Proficiency in real-time business communication in English is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • Hiring process includes application review, a take-home assignment, live coding interview, technical interviews, technical deep-dive and cultural alignment interview, and final decision.
  • Professional Research Personnel military-service transfer hiring is available.
  • Veterans eligible under applicable law receive preferential consideration.

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