Founding Machine Learning / AI Search Engineer

Job discovery is broken. Indeed and LinkedIn want to keep it that way. Join our team and help millions of people put food on the table by finding the perfect job.HiringCafe.com is building a 100× better job search engine - fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement.We don’t believe in hype. We believe in shipping product and listening obsessively to users. In 12 months, we grew from 0 1 million+ monthly active users in 12 months. So everything you ship goes directly to real people.Our teamHamed Nilforoshan- Stanford AI PhD, Data Science at Airbnb & SnapchatAli Mir- SWE at Meta, Rippling, DoorDashJure Leskovec- Stanford AI Professor, ex-Chief Scientist at PinterestWhat we’re buildingAI recommender systems that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their ownAI browser agents that scrape every job on earth, in real-timeScalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platformA product where engineering, data, and design decisions directly shape how people find their next chapterWhat you bring to the tableYou want ownership, leverage, and responsibility from day one.Technically strong with solid fundamentals in programming and systems designAble to learn fast and go deep on unfamiliar problemsObsessive about details, quality, and correctnessRelevant experience to building AI search (one or more of the following)General machine learning backgroundLarge-scale search and ranking systemsML recommender systemsRetrieval infrastructureBuilding LLM AgentsPerksCompetitive pay & equityFlexible PTO & family leaveFull medical, dental, and vision benefitsDesign your own perks as a core member of the founding team

• You want ownership, leverage, and responsibility from day one.
• Technically strong with solid fundamentals in programming and systems design
• Able to learn fast and go deep on unfamiliar problems
• Obsessive about details, quality, and correctness
• Relevant experience to building AI search (one or more of the following)
• General machine learning background
• Large-scale search and ranking systems
• ML recommender systems
• Retrieval infrastructure
• Building LLM Agents

• Hamed Nilforoshan- Stanford AI PhD, Data Science at Airbnb & Snapchat
• Ali Mir- SWE at Meta, Rippling, DoorDash
• Jure Leskovec- Stanford AI Professor, ex-Chief Scientist at Pinterest

What we’re building

• AI recommender systems that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their own
• AI browser agents that scrape every job on earth, in real-time
• Scalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platform
• A product where engineering, data, and design decisions directly shape how people find their next chapter, * Competitive pay & equity
• Flexible PTO & family leave
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team

HiringCafe.com is building a 100× better job search engine - fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement.

We don’t believe in hype. We believe in shipping product and listening obsessively to users. In 12 months, we grew from 0 1 million+ monthly active users in 12 months. So everything you ship goes directly to real people.