Senior Machine Learning Engineer
About The Position
As Babylist's Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be the founding expert driving the next era of our machine learning and personalization efforts. This high-impact position is designed for a hands-on engineer-someone who builds, iterates, and productionalizes ML solutions that directly improve user experience and business outcomes. You'll lead technical development within a focused product pod (Product Manager, Software Engineer, occasional Designer), architecting the models behind our homepage feed, "add next" experience, and more. Reporting to our Senior Director, BI & Data Engineering, you'll help define how advanced recommendations and AI power our platform.
Requirements
- A high-performing engineer with 6+ years of experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth
- You have deep expertise in the Python ML ecosystem (pandas, sklearn, xgboost, PyTorch)
- You have strong expertise creating custom embeddings from raw data sources; you have experience going beyond off-the-shelf image/text embeddings to develop domain-specific representations for ML models.
- You have a proven track record building and delivering production-grade ML solutions, especially recommender systems or personalization features.
- You have experience with the entire ML lifecycle, including workflow orchestration (Airflow) and model monitoring.
- You have strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You demonstrate autonomy: you're able to define problem space, architect solutions from scratch (zero to one), and operate with ownership.
Nice To Haves
- You have a background in consumer-facing products preferred; expertise with e-commerce, dating apps, or complex user journey platforms is highly relevant.
Responsibilities
- Pioneer ML at Babylist: As our first dedicated ML Engineer, you'll shape the roadmap, practices, and culture for machine learning and personalization at scale - architecting the future of AI-powered experiences for a beloved consumer brand.
- Own high-impact work end-to-end: Build and launch high-leverage personalization features from the ground up, not incremental improvements to legacy systems. You'll see immediate results through direct business impact and user engagement.
- Lead both technically and strategically: Be the technical pioneer and strategic leader for ML at Babylist, embedded in a close-knit team building personalized product discovery
- Collaborate across a strong data organization: Embedded in a close-knit team building personalized product discovery. Partner with data scientists, data engineers, and analytics engineers, leveraging Babylist's robust data infrastructure and resources to empower rapid model development.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
- We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
- We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement
- Competitive salary with equity and bonus opportunities
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
- Generous paid parental leave and PTO
- Remote work stipend to set up your office
- Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Administrative and Support Services
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
