Founding AI/ML Engineer

Wwshemi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-hire equity

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wwshemi is seeking a software engineer to build an AI-powered recruiting marketplace's intelligence layer in San Francisco, CA. You will own end-to-end candidate-role matching, ranking, and retrieval systems, from design through production.

You'll ship ML-powered features, work with PyTorch/TF, and design scalable data pipelines. This on-site role requires strong CS fundamentals and hands-on production experience.

Qualifications

• Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production.
• Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
• Experience shipping ML models or ML-powered products to users, with hands-on work in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent frameworks.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or Python and experience building production features with LLM APIs.
• Experience maintaining production data pipelines and services, ideally in a fast-moving startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems for candidate-role matching.
• Develop LLM-powered features and improve matching quality using measurable outcomes.
• Take product features from problem definition to production, shipping at a rapid cadence.
• Build and maintain the data pipelines and backend services that support production models.
• Work with company leadership to translate product goals into working systems.

Skills

Recommendation systems

ML-powered matching

PyTorch / TensorFlow

TypeScript

Python

LLM APIs

Data pipelines

Production features

Vector search

React

Tools

Supabase

Prisma

Typesense

Vector search

Job description

About the Role

Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that match candidates with relevant roles. You will own recommendation, ranking, and retrieval capabilities from early design through production.

What You'll Do

• Design and build recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems for candidate-role matching.
• Develop LLM-powered features and improve matching quality using measurable outcomes.
• Take product features from problem definition to production, shipping at a rapid cadence.
• Build and maintain the data pipelines and backend services that support production models.
• Work with company leadership to translate product goals into working systems.

What We're Looking For

• Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production.
• Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
• Experience shipping ML models or ML-powered products to users, with hands-on work in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent frameworks.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or Python and experience building production features with LLM APIs.
• Experience maintaining production data pipelines and services, ideally in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Strong computer science fundamentals; React, embeddings, vector search, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, or workflow automation tools are helpful.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus competitive founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The role works in person six days per week.