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Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Mercor· Engineering
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San Francisco$160k - $500kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Machine Learning Engineer on the Marketplace team building models and decision systems powering Mercor's hiring engine, including search, ranking, candidate-job matching, marketplace recommendations, personalization, and allocation decisions with real product and revenue impact.

Responsibilities

  • Ranking and matching systems that determine which candidates and opportunities are surfaced
  • Models for recommendation, personalization, and marketplace optimization
  • Retrieval, scoring, and decision pipelines operating at global scale
  • Feedback loops that learn from downstream hiring outcomes, not just top-of-funnel engagement
  • Real-time and batch inference systems embedded in product-critical workflows

Qualifications

  • Strong track record of shipping ML systems into production
  • Experience with ranking, recommendation, search, matching, or marketplace problems
  • Good judgment on model design, objective functions, evaluation, and tradeoffs
  • Comfort working across the full applied ML stack: data, features, training, inference, and iteration
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and a bias toward simple, robust systems

Skills

Required:ML system deploymentRanking and recommendation

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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