Taskrabbit

Taskrabbit

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+

No sponsorship$69k-$72kDetected 26 days ago
PythonCode ReviewBigQuerySnowflakeDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDKafkaMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsStatisticsA/B TestingResearchLeadership

About the role

  • Machine Learning is a cornerstone at Taskrabbit, and we're looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to take technical ownership of our core ranking system.
  • Every job request on the platform flows through it, making this one of the most consequential ML systems we run.
  • This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

  • Together with IKEA, we're creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.
  • Own the architecture, model design, experiment strategy, and production reliability of the core ranking system end-to-end.
  • Build automated retraining pipelines, rollback capability, and skew detection - the foundations that enable safe experimentation at speed and eliminate silent model drift.
  • Leverage filter-based signals from high-booking user cohorts (69-72% higher booking rate) to drive direct conversion lift from untapped behavioral data.
  • Make build-vs-buy recommendations and contribute to long-term ML architecture at Taskrabbit.
  • At Taskrabbit, our approach to compensation is designed to be competitive, transparent, and equitable.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in ranking, recommender systems, or two-sided marketplace ML.
  • Experience with debiasing, A/B experimentation at scale, and the subtleties of feedback loops in production systems.
  • You can hold the full picture of a complex system - data pipelines, feature stores, training infrastructure, serving, monitoring - and make principled decisions about how they fit together.
  • You can do critical R&D.
  • When a problem is novel and the solution is unclear, you have the depth to explore it systematically and the judgment to know when to go deeper vs. ship.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Augment, or similar) across the full software development lifecycle - from designing and generating code to testing, monitoring, and releasing software.
  • You are the system's primary technical decision-maker.

Nice to have

  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Hands-on experience with ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, LightGBM/XGBoost) and modern data infrastructure (Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake/BigQuery, Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with dbt is a plus.

Compensation

  • At Taskrabbit, our approach to compensation is designed to be competitive, transparent, and equitable.
  • Total compensation consists of base pay + bonus + benefits + perks.
  • The base pay range for this position is $170,000 - $225,000.
  • This range is representative of base pay only, and does not include any other total cash compensation amounts, such as company bonus or benefits.
  • Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above and will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, geography, and level.
  • You'll love working here because:

Benefits

  • Total compensation consists of base pay + bonus + benefits + perks.
  • This range is representative of base pay only, and does not include any other total cash compensation amounts, such as company bonus or benefits.
  • Taskrabbit offers our employees with employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for our US based employees.
  • Benefits vary by country of employment.

Company info

  • Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do's, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.
  • At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time.
  • Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced.
  • We're looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love.

Equal opportunity

  • An Active Commitment to Equity within our Company and Platform.
  • We are an inclusive community where all who share our mission and values belong.
  • Our diverse team represents the communities we serve, breaking down systemic barriers, and transforming lives- one action at a time.
  • Taskrabbit is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • W e are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B, OPT, or other employment-based visas).
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