Babylist · 4 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$219K/yr - $263K/yr
10+ years expBabylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. As Babylist’s Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll be the founding expert driving the next era of our machine learning and personalization efforts, leading technical development and architecting models to enhance user experience and business outcomes.
BabyE-CommerceHealth CareInternetMarketplaceParentingToys
Responsibilities
Build and launch high-leverage personalization features from the ground up, not incremental improvements to legacy systems
Shape the roadmap, practices, and culture for machine learning and personalization at scale
Lead both technically and strategically for ML at Babylist, embedded in a close-knit team building personalized product discovery
Collaborate across a strong data organization, partnering with data scientists, data engineers, and analytics engineers to empower rapid model development
Qualification
Required
A high-performing engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth
You have deep expertise in the Python ML ecosystem (pandas, sklearn, xgboost, PyTorch)
You have strong expertise creating custom embeddings from raw data sources; you have experience going beyond off-the-shelf image/text embeddings to develop domain-specific representations for ML models
You have a proven track record building and delivering production-grade ML solutions, especially recommender systems or personalization features
You have experience with the entire ML lifecycle, including workflow orchestration (Airflow) and model monitoring
You have strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
You demonstrate autonomy: you're able to define problem space, architect solutions from scratch (zero to one), and operate with ownership
Preferred
You have a background in consumer-facing products preferred; expertise with e-commerce, dating apps, or complex user journey platforms is highly relevant
Benefits
Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
Generous paid parental leave and PTO
Remote work stipend to set up your office
Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
Company
Babylist
Babylist is an online platform that offers baby registry for expecting parents and products such as toys, baby care, and clothing.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$40.65MKey Investors
Norwest
2021-11-04Series C· $40M
2018-02-15Series Unknown
2013-06-25Seed· $0.65M
Leadership Team
Natalie Gordon
CEO & Founder
Recent News
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2025-09-30
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