Bandana · 13 hours ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$160K/yr - $200K/yr
4+ years expBandana is a company focused on improving the livelihoods of hourly workers through transparency and trust. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and build a user-job matching system and develop job ranking algorithms as part of their mission to enhance the job search experience for users.
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Responsibilities
Design and build our user-job matching system end-to-end, from data pipelines to production models
Develop and iterate on job ranking algorithms that surface the most relevant opportunities to users
Establish foundational ML infrastructure: experiment tracking, model serving, and monitoring
Deploy and maintain containerized ML services in cloud environments
Partner with product and engineering to translate user needs into ML-powered features
Qualification
Required
Have 4+ years of experience building and deploying ML systems in production
Have strong practical experience with recommendation systems, ranking, or matching problems
Have an understanding of MLOps best practices
Are comfortable owning the full ML lifecycle without handoffs to other ML engineers
Thrive in high velocity, collaborative teams with ambiguous requirements and high opportunity for ownership
Have worked in a startup environment as an early or sole ML hire
Preferred
Have experience with two-sided marketplaces or job/talent matching platforms
Have built real-time serving infrastructure for low-latency predictions
Have experience building and owning an ETL pipeline
Have deployed ML systems on Google Cloud Platform (Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, or similar)
Have implemented frameworks for ML model evaluation
Have experience with LLMs or embedding models for semantic matching
Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
Wellness benefit
Influence over technical direction at a company early enough for it to matter
A team that treats infrastructure as a first-class concern, not an afterthought
Lunch!
Company
Bandana
Bandana operates as a people-first online job platform.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$25.3MKey Investors
General Catalyst
2025-09-25Series A· $13M
2024-08-07Seed· $8.5M
2023-09-06Seed· $3.8M
Leadership Team
Caleb L.
Co-Founder & COO
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