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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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remote senior full-time $80k–$120K USD San Francisco

First indexed 7 May 2026

Description

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Search Quality team, you will improve the e-commerce experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world by building the systems that power relevance for global retailers - from fashion and grocery to electronics and hardware.

Your primary focus will be relevance evaluation and quality improvements:

  • LLM-based evaluation. We fine-tune our own models to assess relevance. This involves teaching the model to understand query intent, represent items from messy catalog data, and align model judgments with real user behavior.
  • Real-time quality in production. Reranking, filtering, signal computation. Latency is a strict requirement, so quality vs speed tradeoff is constant.
  • Automated quality monitoring and agentic insights. Pipelines to detect degradations and find underperforming patterns. Agent-based systems that generate actionable recommendations for the product data and search configurations.

What makes this interesting:

  • Multi-domain, multi-language, at scale - 40+ languages, 20+ domains. The models need to generalize across all of them - without per-customer rules or overrides.
  • No universal ground truth. A grocery retailer and a fashion retailer may have different perceptions on what "relevant" means.
  • Efficiency at scale. Optimizing and scaling LLM inference across our entire customer base.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years shipping production ML systems
  • Experience with search, information retrieval, or recommendation systems
  • Hands-on experience with fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and scaling LLM deployments
  • Strong Python and PyTorch. Fluency in SQL and data orchestration tools (Spark, Airflow)
  • Experience designing and running A/B tests to validate model impact
  • Excellent English communication skills
  • Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams (ranking, product, data engineering)

Benefits:

  • Work with smart and empathetic people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact.
  • Regular team offsite events to connect and collaborate.
  • Fully remote team - choose where you live.
  • Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year.
  • Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office.
  • Apple laptops provided for new employees.
  • Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year.
  • Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees.
  • Base salary: $80k–$120K USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results.
  • Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary.

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