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Senior Staff ML Engineer

Grindr· Data/ML
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Hybrid (Palo Alto), Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leader shaping Grindr's ML roadmap with a focus on large-scale recommendation systems, LLM-enabled conversations, and production-ready ML solutions in a hybrid Bay Area-based role.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and oversee large-scale recommendation systems to serve millions, balancing performance and innovation.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience building ML systems with a focus on 0-to-1 system development, platform-scale architecture, and creating new capabilities from scratch. Experience with recommendation systems or similar is a plus.
  • Proven ability to deliver at scale, with fluency in Python and popular ML frameworks.
  • A scrappy mindset—you tackle messy challenges head-on and get real results.
  • Experience using data and deployment technologies (Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Spark, PySpark)
  • Experience building machine/deep learning models with at least one common framework such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras.
  • Experience with any public cloud environment - AWS, GCP or Databricks.

Skills

Required:PythonML Frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Keras)Data & Deployment ToolsPublic Cloud (AWS, GCP, or Databricks)Leadership & Strategy

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision: Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
  • Family Formation: Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
  • Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
  • Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
  • Gender-Affirming Care: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
  • Time Off & Rest: Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
  • Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Grindr

The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.

Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.

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