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Member of Technical Staff - Recommendation Systems

Palo Alto, CA💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-05-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and architecting recommendation algorithms, ranking systems, and search technologies to connect users with relevant content and experiences for a platform with 600 million monthly users.

Role type

Applied ML engineer (recommendation systems)

Builds

Recommendation algorithms, ranking systems, search technologies, data pipelines, and training jobs

Domain

AI/ML, Recommendation Systems, Search Technologies

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Data infrastructure (Kafka, Clickhouse, Spark), Industrial-scale recommender systems, Deep learning frameworks (JAX, PyTorch), CUDA kernel development

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Kafka, Clickhouse, Spark, JAX, PyTorch, CUDA

Responsibilities

Designing and architecting recommendation algorithms across product surfaces, Leveraging xAI's infra and AI stacks to enhance user experience, Writing data pipelines and training jobs that continuously learn from product data, Iterating and improving algorithms via real-time user feedback experimentation, Ensuring scalability and efficiency of machine learning systems

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC

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