Tinder · 2 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
8+ years expTinder is a leading dating app that has transformed how people connect, boasting over 97 billion matches. The company is seeking a highly motivated Staff-level Machine Learning Engineer to drive cross-cutting initiatives across various domains, enhancing user experiences and fostering business growth through machine learning.
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Responsibilities
Lead and execute cross-cutting machine learning initiatives that span multiple ML domains, especially where ownership is unclear or problems cut across teams
Partner closely with the Director of Engineering to identify the opportunities and set the technical direction of ML team
Step into complex or struggling projects, diagnose issues quickly, and help bring them back on track through hands-on technical leadership and execution
Embed with individual pods as needed to provide deep technical support, unblock delivery, and raise the quality bar for ML systems and implementations
Act as a strategic thought partner to engineering managers, helping shape technical strategy and identify gaps, risks, and opportunities across ML platforms and systems
Collaborate with domain tech leads as a cross-domain advisor, aligning architectures, data pipelines, and modeling approaches across teams
Influence technical direction and best practices across the ML organization through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance
Mentor senior engineers and help develop technical leadership across the team, without direct people management responsibility
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Computer Science or an equivalent field with 8+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping production machine learning systems at scale
At least two peer-reviewed publications in top-tier conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, WWW, ACL, CVPR, or equivalent), demonstrating strong ML fundamentals and technical depth
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Professional work experience in Recommendation Systems or Causal Inference (Revenue or Growth)
Strong hands-on engineering skills, with the ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code and ML pipelines
Proven track record as a senior individual contributor (Staff or Principal level) of translating complex, ambiguous business problems into Machine Learning problems
Deep understanding of end-to-end ML systems, including data pipelines, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
Experience of partnering closely with engineering managers and senior stakeholders to lead cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction and execution
Hands-on experience with the following (or equivalent/similar) tools in production environments: Kubernetes, Triton Inference Server, Ray Serve, Airflow, Flink, or Spark (Databricks)
Company
Tinder
Tinder anonymously finds people nearby that like each other and connects them if they are both interested. It is a sub-organization of Match Group.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (63)
2024 (16)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$50MKey Investors
BenchmarkIAC
2017-10-10Series Unknown
2014-10-28Series Unknown
2014-04-11Secondary Market· $50M
Leadership Team
Brian Norgard
Chief Product Officer
Melissa Hobley
Global CMO
Recent News
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