ZipRecruiter
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Santa Monica, CA · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$21,637 more — $161,637 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $161,637 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card follow-through: 100%
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About the role
- ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.
- Summary: At ZipRecruiter, where a universe of data, brimming with over a billion archived job postings, tens of millions of dynamic job seekers, and countless impression and click events, there's plenty of opportunities for innovation.
- Here, your experience will be put to work crafting new, data-driven features that impact the lives of millions, connecting them to their dream jobs.
Requirements
- Most US-based positions can also be performed remotely (any exceptions will be noted in the Minimum Qualifications below.)
Nice to have
- BS/MS/PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Background with NLP techniques and tools, such as tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, sentiment analysis, and named entity recognition, and libraries like NLTK, SpaCy, or BERT
- Competitive compensation
- Employer-matched 401(k) plan
Skills
- Identify patterns, trends, and anomalies in the data, and visualize insights using appropriate tools
- Assess the performance of machine learning models using appropriate metrics, validation techniques, and testing datasets
Compensation
- Competitive compensation
Company info
- ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web. ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.
- Summary:
- At ZipRecruiter, where a universe of data, brimming with over a billion archived job postings, tens of millions of dynamic job seekers, and countless impression and click events, there's plenty of opportunities for innovation. Here, your experience will be put to work crafting new, data-driven features that impact the lives of millions, connecting them to their dream jobs.
- We're tackling exciting challenges: imagine developing a system that can predict salaries for new job postings, using a training set of job postings and known salaries. But the fun doesn't stop at model-building. Our work involves an immersive dive into data - gathering, cleaning, analyzing, and extracting meaningful insights.
- ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace.
- Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web.
- At ZipRecruiter, where a universe of data, brimming with over a billion archived job postings, tens of millions of dynamic job seekers, and countless impression and click events, there's plenty of opportunities for innovation.
- We're tackling exciting challenges: imagine developing a system that can predict salaries for new job postings, using a training set of job postings and known salaries.
- But the fun doesn't stop at model-building.
- Our work involves an immersive dive into data - gathering, cleaning, analyzing, and extracting meaningful insights.
- Key Focuses:
- Design, develop, and maintain machine learning models and algorithms to solve complex business problems
- Discover opportunities to optimize models by fine-tuning hyperparameters, feature selection, or employing regularization techniques to improve accuracy, performance, and scalability
- To actively connect people to their next great opportunity.
- Exceptional benefits package
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
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