Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California
Posted 6 months ago
Expires May 29, 2026
Full TimeHybrid

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We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to support our mission.

This role is based in San Francisco or New York as an in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.

About the Role

- Conduct exploratory data analyses and proof-of-concept machine learning models to understand opportunities and potential project impact.

- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as product, engineering, design, legal, and trust and safety to design effective machine learning solutions.

- Analyze and prepare training data, including using crowdsourcing data labeling techniques.

- Train and iterate on machine learning models using novel techniques.

- Deploy machine learning models to production and write backend code when necessary to properly deploy the model.

- Debug models when observability shows performance gaps, and iterate on models.

About You

- You have a minimum of 8 years of experience working in an end-to-end machine learning team environment: analyzing data, building and iterating on machine learning models, writing production-level code and shipping to production, monitoring performance, and A/B testing.

- You write clean and robust code in Python or other programming langu...

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