Staff Machine Learning Engineer
TaskRabbitOn-demand Home company
San Francisco, United States$170,000 - $225,000Lead
First Round Capital
Collaborative Fund
Facebook
Shasta Ventures
Baseline Ventures
Floodgate Fund
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical ownership of Taskrabbit's core ranking system, driving ML strategy and implementation.
- •Taskrabbit is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to take technical ownership of their core ranking system, a critical component of the platform.
- •This role involves hands-on technical leadership, defining system direction, and solving complex ML challenges.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the architecture, model design, and production reliability of the core ranking system.
- •Serve as the primary technical point of contact for Product, Data Science, Risk, and Commerce on matching and ranking.
- •Build automated retraining pipelines, rollback capabilities, and skew detection for model reliability.
- •Address biases in the ranking pipeline and leverage client intent signals for personalization.
- •Mentor junior engineers and elevate the technical bar across the team.
- •Requirements 8+ years of industry experience building and deploying production-grade ML systems.
- •Deep expertise in ranking, recommender systems, or two-sided marketplace ML.
- •Strong architectural thinking and ability to hold the full picture of complex systems.
- •Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn.
- •Experience with modern data infrastructure and cloud platforms.
Required skills
PythonSQLPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnAirflowSnowflakeBigQueryDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CD
Nice-to-have skills
dbt
Domain expertise
ecommerceretail
Benefits & perks
Health insurance, 401k match, Product stipends, Wellness stipends, Education stipends, IKEA discounts
Tech stack
PythonSQLPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnAirflowSnowflakeBigQueryDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CD