Founding ML/AI Engineer — Recommender & Matching

Fruition Executive Search; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Fruition Executive Search in San Francisco is seeking a founding ML/AI engineer to own the intelligence layer of our recruiting marketplace. You will develop recommendation systems, ranking, and LLM-powered matching that determine candidate visibility and role alignment.

You will ship features daily, build production data pipelines, and collaborate with the founders to translate product goals into deployed systems.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years shipping production software with ML experience.
• Hands-on with recommender systems or ML-powered matching.
• Strong TS or Python and experience with LLM APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI/ML intelligence layer end to end: recommendation, ranking, and retrieval.
• Build LLM-powered matching that measurably improves candidate-role alignment.
• Ship features from problem to production daily.
• Architect and maintain the production data pipelines and services the models run on.
• Work directly with the founders to turn product goals into shipped systems.

Skills

ML/AI experience

Recommendation systems

Production software

TypeScript or Python

LLM API usage

CS fundamentals

GitHub projects

Tools

React

Supabase

Prisma

Typesense

trigger.dev

Vector search

Job description

Fruition Executive Search in San Francisco is seeking a founding ML/AI engineer to own the intelligence layer of our recruiting marketplace. You will develop recommendation systems, ranking, and LLM-powered matching that determine candidate visibility and role alignment.

You will ship features daily, build production data pipelines, and collaborate with the founders to translate product goals into deployed systems.