Staff Machine Learning Scientist

Staff Machine Learning Scientist

Location : SF Bay Area - Hybrid (3 days / week onsite)

Salary : $275-325k base + Equity

A leading commerce marketplace with 130M+ users and billions of daily events is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Scientist to drive innovation across personalization, feed ranking, computer vision, and GenAI. You'll work on high-impact ML solutions that directly shape user experience and business outcomes at massive scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead full-lifecycle ML projects from idea to production across core areas like personalization, trust & safety, marketing optimization, and user engagement.
• Own the ML development process—from data exploration and feature engineering to model training, deployment, and post-launch optimization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with ML engineers, PMs, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-leverage initiatives.
• Experiment with emerging AI techniques, including GenAI, Computer Vision, and LLMs, to push the boundaries of what’s possible on the platform.
• Build scalable, production-ready ML systems that enhance key metrics like retention, engagement, and conversion.

What You Bring