Staff MLE

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

SF Bay Area : Hybrid (3 days onsite / wk)

$270,000 - $325,000 Base + Equity

A leading commerce marketplace with 130M+ users and billions of daily events is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer . Their marketplace connects buyers and sellers through personalized, trustworthy, and engaging experiences. With a strong engineering culture and a focus on applied AI, their team is building next-gen features to shape how users discover, connect, and transact.

Role

We’re looking for a Staff MLE to take technical leadership of a core AI initiative. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you’ll architect and deploy large-scale ML systems, drive end-to-end model productionization, and influence engineering culture across squads. You’ll partner closely with data scientists and product teams to deliver real-time, intelligent features that delight users and scale globally.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and system design for large-scale ML systems (batch & real-time)
• Deploy experimentation-ready models into production with DS partners
• Build robust MLOps pipelines for serving, monitoring, and optimizing models
• Develop real-time inference systems, including vector database integrations
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a high-performance technical culture
• Tackle challenging problems in personalization, fraud prevention, search, and GenAI tools

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