Job description
Applied AI / ML Engineer$200,000 - $290,000 + Competitive Equity + Benefits + PTO
San Francisco, CA - Onsite
Looking to join a fast-growing startup with little bureaucracy and rapid iteration to build AI systems that power how elite recruiters and companies match with top talent faster and more intelligently?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a company transforming how leading start-ups source and hire talent through an AI-native marketplace. Backed by top-tier investors (think founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and leading VCs), the team is pioneering new capabilities in AI-driven recruitment technology - building large-scale matchmaking, ranking, and automation systems that make hiring more efficient end-to-end.
As part of a tight-knit, high-caliber engineering team, you'll take ownership of core AI systems powering the marketplace. You'll design and ship production ML models across ranking, retrieval, personalization, and LLM-powered workflows; build robust evaluation frameworks; deploy and monitor models in production; and directly influence the intelligence layer that drives marketplace growth and quality, all while working closely with experienced founders and product leaders.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role perfect for engineers who thrive in fast-moving environments, enjoy solving ambiguous real-world AI problems, and want their work to directly move company metrics.
The Role
- Design and build AI/ML systems that power matchmaking, ranking, search, and automation across the marketplace
- Own model development end-to-end-from data collection and labeling strategy to deployment, monitoring, and iteration in production
- Develop and maintain robust evaluation frameworks to measure quality, bias, reliability, and business impact
- Work on large-scale retrieval and ranking problems across millions of candidate profiles
- Collaborate closely with product, AI engineers, and full-stack teams to ship systems that directly improve marketplace performance
- Set technical direction and best practices for applied AI across the platform
- Onsite
The Person
- 5-8 years of experience building and owning production AI/ML systems used by real users
- Experience with LLM-based systems, retrieval, ranking, NLP, personalization, or large-scale matching systems
- Strong judgment around evaluation and metrics-knows how to measure what truly matters for product outcomes
- Track record of shipping AI systems that drive measurable business impact
- High ownership, strong product instincts, and ability to operate autonomously in an early-stage environment
- Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations
- Excited to solve real-world AI problems with a tight-knit, ambitious team
Rise Technical Recruitment Inc of 1011 Centre Rd, Suite 322, Wilmington, DE 19805 act as an employer-paid private personnel agency.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.
We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
