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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Top Job
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=10f6f07958ffae4f

## About the Role

* 5+ years industry experience building production ML systems with senior ownership.
 * Hands-on recommendation, search, ranking, ads ranking, feed ranking, or content discovery systems.
 * Consumer apps, entertainment, social, gaming, creator, or engagement-driven products.
 * Two-tower models, embedding retrieval, candidate generation, ranking, and online/offline evaluation.

## Description

* Build recommendation and search across feed, discovery, search, and content continuation.
 * Own retrieval/ranking: candidate generation, embeddings, two-tower models, features, and serving quality.
 * Design, launch, and analyze recommendation/search experiments.

Bonus

 * Bonus signal: 5+ years production ML
 * Bonus signal: recommendation systems
 * Bonus signal: search ranking
 * Bonus signal: embedding retrieval

Anti-signals

 * Cannot show core Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation experience
 * Not comfortable with the listed work mode
 * Low ownership, coordination-only, or no shipped examples


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