Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fraud Data
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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Patreon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $284,000 - $426,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Define and lead the technical direction for Patreon’s recommendation and search systems.
- Architect large-scale ML systems that determine what fans see, how they discover creators, and how creators grow their audiences.
- Own projects from prototype to production, including the data, modeling, and backend components.
- Build tools and simple frontend prototypes to visualize model results and demonstrate how relevance models surface in the product.
- Mentor other ML engineers, influence multi-team technical strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Product, Data Science, and Infrastructure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in applied machine learning, with a focus on search, ranking, or recommendation systems.
- Proven experience designing and deploying production ML systems serving millions of users.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Proficiency in backend development and experience integrating ML systems into production environments.
- Ability to prototype or visualize ML outputs in interactive UI contexts to help teams interpret model impact.
- Expertise in building and maintaining data pipelines, feature stores, and model observability systems.
- Deep understanding of embedding-based retrieval, ranking algorithms, and personalization architectures.
- Strong collaboration skills — able to partner effectively with engineers, designers, and PMs.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-team technical alignment.
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible time off
- Paid holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development stipends
- Parental leave
- 401k plan with matching
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
machine learningsearch systemsranking systemsrecommendation systemsPythonbackend developmentdata pipelinesfeature storesmodel observabilityembedding-based retrieval
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringinfluencing technical strategycross-functional teamworkcommunication
Certifications
Master's in Computer SciencePhD in Machine Learning
