Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations

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Ziprecruiter Staff Machine Learning Engineer at ZipRecruiter to lead ML and AI capabilities for recommendation systems. Responsible for shaping ML roadmap, architecting high-scale systems, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

Drive ML Strategy & Roadmap: Partner directly with Engineering and Product Leadership to define and execute the technical vision for core components in the marketplace, including but not limited to recommendation engines and matching algorithms, ML entity representation platform.
Architect High-Scale Systems: Design and own state-of-the-art ML systems handling dynamic interaction prediction, candidate ranking, and candidate/job retrieval across high-throughput production environments.
Optimize Two-Sided Marketplace Dynamics: Solve high-complexity matching and recommendation challenges native to two-sided marketplaces, including real-time intent prediction, bilateral relevancy, candidate cold-start problems, and feedback loops between job seekers and employers.
Org-Wide Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists across teams to instill a culture of technical excellence, rigorous experimentation, and fast production delivery.
Production Excellence: Drive end-to-end model ownership—from initial exploration and feature engineering through distributed training, offline/online evaluation (A/B testing), to real-time latency optimization.

Qualification

Experience in Two-Sided MarketplacesAs part of our team you’ll enjoyCompetitive compensationExceptional benefits packageFlexible Vacation & Paid Time Off

Required

8+ years of professional experience developing and deploying machine learning models in large-scale production environments.
Proven track record of architecting and shipping end-to-end ML solutions that serve production traffic at scale.
Deep domain expertise in Recommendation Systems, Personalization, Ranking & Retrieval, or Interaction Prediction.
Strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on expertise using modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
Proven experience in technical leadership and mentorship, driving technical alignment across cross-functional engineering and product teams.
Strong background in statistical modeling, online experimentation (A/B testing methodology), and offline metric design.

Preferred

Experience in Two-Sided Marketplaces: Familiarity with supply/demand liquidity, bilateral matching algorithms, dynamic pricing, or auction-based models.
Modern deep learning techniques for recommendations, such as Two-Tower Neural Networks, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Transformer-based retrieval models, or Contextual Bandits.
Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related quantitative field or equivalent experience.
Experience with modern MLOps architectures and distributed training frameworks.
As part of our team you’ll enjoy:
Competitive compensation
Exceptional benefits package
Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off

Benefits

Vision
401(k)
PTO
Equity/RSU
Flexible Work

Company

Ziprecruiter

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