Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Bumble • Austin, TX

74d • $185,000 - $222,500

About The Position

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on scalability and productionisation, you will bring advanced machine learning models to life in production, from content understanding systems that interpret profiles, photos and text, to recommendation models that shape every match. You will build and scale the pipelines, infrastructure and automation that transform experimentation into reliable, high-impact features for our members.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a similar quantitative discipline.
• Strong software engineering background. You write clean, scalable, and maintainable code in Python or similar languages.
• Proven experience deploying and operating ML systems in production environments.
• Deep understanding of MLOps and infrastructure concepts: CI/CD for ML, feature stores, model serving, observability, and versioning.
• Experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) and orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Ray).
• Familiarity with containerisation and cloud-native environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS).
• Skilled at debugging complex, distributed ML systems and optimising for performance at scale.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator. You communicate effectively with scientists, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Interested in contributing to the responsible development of ML and AI, with a focus on building systems that are fair, equitable and accountable.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise ML pipelines and production systems that train, evaluate and serve recommendation models efficiently and at scale.
• Work in a cross-functional team alongside data scientists, machine learning scientists, software engineers and both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Partner with ML Scientists to translate research models into efficient, maintainable, and well-tested production systems.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and retraining strategies to ensure continuous model performance in a dynamic, global environment.
• Contribute to the evolution of our ML infrastructure, including CI/CD, model registries, and feature stores.
• Diagnose and resolve production ML issues, such as data inconsistencies and model drift, to identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Champion engineering best practices for scalability, reliability, and reproducibility across the ML lifecycle.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy.
• $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, abortion care, and more.
• 26 Weeks Parental Leave for both primary and secondary caregivers.
• Family & Compassionate Leave inclusive of domestic violence recovery.
• Company-wide Week Off for annual collective rest.
• Focus Fridays with no meetings, emails, or deadlines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees