Senior AI/ML Engineer (Fully Remote)

Nivoda; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holiday

Remote-first culture

Ownership from day one

Job summary

Nivoda is the operating system for the global jewellery industry, connecting diamond and gemstone suppliers directly with retailers across more than 70 countries. We are a small, high-ownership team with a remote-first culture, powering over $300M in annual transactions.

Nivoda seeks an experienced engineer to build and own ranking, search, and recommendation systems, leveraging LLMs and image embeddings, with a focus on scalable, production-grade solutions.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in information retrieval infrastructure and ML for ranking.
• Production experience with LLMs and low-latency model serving.
• Comfort using AI coding agents and building evaluation harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-tenant ranking and recommendation systems for marketplace and branded storefronts.
• Build contextual, conversational, and image-based search using LLMs and image embeddings.
• Run search-specific evaluation with offline metrics and interleaving experiments.

Skills

Information retrieval

Ranking systems

LLM integration

Low-latency serving

Tools

LLMs

Embeddings

Model serving

Job description

• Build and run ranking, recommendation, and search systems for the Discovery Pod.
• Own models end to end, from features and training through evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

What You'll Do:

• Design multi-tenant ranking and recommendation systems for marketplace and branded storefronts.
• Build contextual, conversational, and image-based search using LLMs and image embeddings.
• Run search-specific evaluation with offline metrics and interleaving experiments.

What We're Looking For:

• 5-10 years of experience with information retrieval infrastructure and applied ML for ranking.
• Production experience with LLMs, low-latency model serving, and graceful failure design.
• Comfort using AI coding agents and building evaluation harnesses to catch bugs.

Culture and Benefits:

• Remote-first culture with flexible working hours and unlimited holiday allowance.
• Real ownership from day one and opportunities to grow with a fast-scaling team.

Nivoda is the operating system for the global jewellery industry, connecting diamond and gemstone suppliers directly with retailers across more than 70 countries. We're a small, high-ownership team with a remote-first culture, powering over $300M in annual transactions.