Paraform

Paraform

Applied ML Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 125 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningNLPAgentic AICanvaResearch

About the role

  • You're comfortable working with traditional ML and you've shipped systems with clear quality metrics and business impact.
  • ABOUT PARAFORM: Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring.

Responsibilities

  • Research and build AI/ML systems that power matchmaking, ranking, and automation across the Paraform marketplace.
  • Own model development end-to-end, from data collection and labeling strategies to deployment, monitoring, and iteration in production.
  • Partner with product, AI engineers, and full-stack teams to ship systems that directly move marketplace metrics.
  • Build and maintain robust evaluation frameworks to continuously measure quality, bias, reliability, and business impact.
  • Work with other engineers and raise the bar for how AI systems are designed, shipped, and maintained.
  • That's why we're building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.
  • We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors - and we're building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

Requirements

  • You have strong judgment around evaluation and know how to measure what actually matters when considering product priorities.

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale retrieval, ranking, NLP, or personalization systems is a plus.

Skills

  • Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring.

Company info

  • Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.
  • We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.
  • Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.
  • At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring.
  • We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

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