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Machine Learning Engineer (Recommender Systems & Databricks)
Remote Senior Machine Learning Engineer role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 1, 2026
Eligible countries29 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
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Role overview
Machine Learning Engineer (Recommender Systems & Databricks)
Requirements and responsibilities
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Functional Responsibilities:
- Design and implement recommender systems to improve product discovery and enhance customer engagement across digital and physical platforms.
- Build and manage scalable machine learning pipelines for data processing, feature engineering, model training, and deployment using tools like Databricks and Spark.
- Apply and optimize advanced machine learning models for recommendation systems, including Wide & Deep models, Two-Tower architectures, Transformer-based models (e.g., NRMS), embeddings-based approaches, neural networks, autoencoder-based models (e.g., AutoRec), and deep sequential models like GRU4Rec.
- Collaborate closely with software engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to integrate models into production systems and solve real-world business challenges.
- Monitor, maintain, and continuously enhance deployed models to ensure reliability, accuracy, and alignment with evolving business needs.
- Stay informed on the latest advancements in machine learning, recommender systems, deep learning, and Generative AI to drive innovation and improvement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of proven experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, demonstrating successful development and deployment of Machine Learning models.
- Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying recommender systems. This is a must-have requirement.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python along with experience with machine learning libraries/frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.S
- olid understanding and application of machine learning techniques relevant to recommendation systems, including but not limited to Wide & Deep models, Two-Tower models, Transformers, embeddings, neural networks, autoencoders (AutoRec), and deep sequential models (GRU4Rec)
- Extensive experience handling large-scale data processing and analysis using Spark/PySpark within Databricks, including its native platform services.
- Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and statistical modeling techniques.
- Strong knowledge of experimental design, A/B testing, and performance evaluation metrics for machine learning solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Our Benefits:
- Ownership through equity participation.
- Annual company retreat.
- Education bonus for continuous learning.
- Company-wide winter break.
- Paid time off.
- Optional in-person events and meetups.
- Tailored career roadmaps.
- High-performance culture.
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