Machine Learning Engineer - Search, Ranking & Personalization Job at Cyber Staff, New York, NY

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  • Cyber Staff
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Machine Learning Engineer – Search, Ranking & Personalization

Location : New York, NY / San Francisco, CA (Remote OK)

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience Level : 3+ years

Salary Range : $190,000 – $260,000 per year

Equity : Competitive equity package

Visa Sponsorship :* H-1B, O-1, OPT

About the Company

Client is a fast-growing shopping platform with over 350,000 active users and a 90% retention rate . The company is focused on building intelligent, personalized search and ranking systems to help users discover and trust products at scale. The team is composed of experienced engineers from leading consumer tech companies such as Pinterest and Amazon.

Role Summary

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Client's company, you will join the ML team to design, build, and scale machine learning systems that drive search, ranking, and personalization across a platform serving hundreds of millions of items daily. This is a highly impactful role where your work directly influences user retention and trust. You will collaborate with a world-class team of engineers and play a key part in defining the ML search and personalization strategy from the ground up. The position is open to fully remote candidates.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, train, and deploy large-scale search, ranking, and personalization models.
  • Handle hundreds of millions of items daily with high performance and reliability.
  • Collaborate closely with backend and infrastructure teams to integrate ML models into production (GraphQL, Prisma, Node.js, Python, gRPC/Protobuf).
  • Continuously improve model accuracy and system scalability.
  • Contribute to product direction and technical roadmap for Client's ML systems.
Must-Have Qualifications
  • Minimum of 3+ years professional experience building and deploying ML models in production.
  • Proven experience with ranking, recommendation, or personalization systems.
  • Proficiency in PyTorch and large-scale data processing for real-time inference.
  • Strong backend integration experience (GraphQL, Prisma, Node.js, Python, gRPC/Protobuf).
  • Willingness to work in a high-intensity, fast-paced startup environment.
  • Based in New York or remote in San Francisco.
Preferred Background
  • Current or prior experience at companies like DoorDash, Etsy, Pinterest, Amazon, or eBay.
  • Previous work on consumer-facing search or recommendation products.
Benefits & Perks
  • $190K–$260K base salary plus competitive equity.
  • Direct impact on a core product with a massive, high-retention user base.
  • Work alongside top-tier engineers from leading consumer tech companies.
  • Fast-paced startup culture with rapid iteration and experimentation.
  • Opportunity to build the ML search and personalization strategy from scratch.

Job Tags

Remote job, Full time, H1b, Visa sponsorship,

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