Mercor
Machine Learning Engineer, Marketplace
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
PythonGoPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchKubernetesTerraformKafkaMachine LearningRAGA/B Testing
About the role
- This includes search and ranking, candidate-job matching, marketplace recommendations, personalization, and allocation decisions across a rapidly growing talent network.
- This is an applied ML role with direct product and revenue impact.
Responsibilities
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Design models that balance marketplace objectives such as fill rate, quality, speed, and conversion
- Build systems for candidate allocation, opportunity routing, and liquidity optimization
Requirements
- Strong track record of shipping ML systems into production
- Experience with ranking, recommendation, search, matching, or marketplace problems
- Comfort working across the full applied ML stack: data, features, training, inference, and iteration
Skills
- Python, Go, embeddings, fine-tuning, RAG, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Ranking and matching systems that determine which candidates and opportunities are surfaced
- Models for recommendation, personalization, and marketplace optimization
- Retrieval, scoring, and decision pipelines operating at global scale
- Feedback loops that learn from downstream hiring outcomes, not just top-of-funnel engagement
- Real-time and batch inference systems embedded in product-critical workflows
- Improve candidate-job matching using embeddings, structured attributes, and behavioral signals
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will build the models and decision systems that power Mercor's hiring engine.
Company info
- by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team.
- You'll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.
- We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
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