
Senior Staff ML Engineer
Grindr
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $240,000 - $310,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect and oversee large-scale recommendation systems to serve millions, balancing performance and innovation.
- Leverage the latest LLMs to process vast conversation data and enhance user connections.
- Prototype, iterate, and ship production-ready ML solutions that solve real problems for our user.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, collaborating with engineering, data science and product teams to turn bold ideas into tangible results.
- Evaluate, influence, and integrate emerging AI tools and techniques at an organizational level to keep Grindr’s tech stack ahead of the curve.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
- Family Formation Up to $200,000 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningdeep learningPythonPyTorchTensorFlowKeras0-to-1 system developmentplatform-scale architectureML frameworksrecommendation systems
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinginnovationscrappy mindset