Hybrid Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Define and lead the technical direction for Patreon’s recommendation and search systems.
  • Architect large-scale ML systems that determine what fans see, how they discover creators, and how creators grow their audiences.
  • Own projects from prototype to production, including the data, modeling, and backend components.
  • Build tools and simple frontend prototypes to visualize model results and demonstrate how relevance models surface in the product.
  • Mentor other ML engineers, influence multi-team technical strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Product, Data Science, and Infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional experience in applied machine learning, with a focus on search, ranking, or recommendation systems.
  • Proven experience designing and deploying production ML systems serving millions of users.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Proficiency in backend development and experience integrating ML systems into production environments.
  • Ability to prototype or visualize ML outputs in interactive UI contexts to help teams interpret model impact.
  • Expertise in building and maintaining data pipelines, feature stores, and model observability systems.
  • Deep understanding of embedding-based retrieval, ranking algorithms, and personalization architectures.
  • Strong collaboration skills — able to partner effectively with engineers, designers, and PMs.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-team technical alignment.
  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Learning and development stipends
  • Parental leave
  • 401k plan with matching

Job title

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$284,000 - $426,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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