Krea AI

Krea AI

ML Engineer - Personalization & Recommendation Systems

San Francisco · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 304 days ago
PythonExpressAlgorithmsMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchMLOpsResearch

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About the role

  • We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D.
  • We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract.
  • We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build Krea's personalization and recommendation stack from the ground up, owning the technical direction end to end
  • Design algorithms to model user preference and taste, enabling Krea's models to adapt to individual styles and aesthetics
  • Build high-quality, curated feeds that balance exploration, personalization, and aesthetic coherence
  • Work directly with the our model and research team to co-design personalization mechanisms that influence how our generative models learn, adapt, and express style
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, and research to define what "good personalization" means in a creative context
  • Strong experience building recommendation systems or personalized feeds from scratch
  • Proven ability to design and ship high-quality curated content experiences
  • Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale data systems and production ML infrastructure
  • Prior work on or familiarity with diffusion models or generative image systems
  • Background in embeddings, similarity search, ranking, or aesthetic evaluation
  • Experience working with media-based personalization (image, video preferred
  • music or other modalities also welcome)

Compensation

  • generous salary & equity packages

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
  • Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
  • Time off: Flexible PTO policy
  • Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees
  • Solid foundations in machine learning, representation learning, and modern deep learning techniques

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).

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