Senior AI/ML Scientist, Search Ranking & Personalization

Faire Wholesale Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 291,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Faire Wholesale Inc. is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist to lead the design and implementation of real-time search and recommendation systems for our wholesale platform. You will work with cross-functional teams to advance personalized discovery for independent retailers worldwide.

You will apply transformer-based models, graph signals, and multi-modal data to deliver hyper-relevant product results and explainable search experiences. Hybrid work and equity are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building large-scale ML models with business impact and shipping ML solutions to production.
• 3+ years in search, recommendation, or ads ranking.
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related STEM field.
• Strong programming skills (Python, Java, or equivalent) and hands-on experience with deep-learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch) and big data technologies (e.g., Spark).

Responsibilities

• Build our next-generation Search ranking algorithms by integrating the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to personalize the retailer discovery journey at Faire
• Leverage LLM to extract multimodal signals (text, visual) to better profile users and their intents.
• Partner closely with teams across Faire to experiment and improve the ML models for search ranking and beyond.
• Design and productionize natural-language search and discovery systems so that intelligent agents can generate relevant and personalized collections, explain search results, and assist retailers with browsing, filtering, and evaluation.
• Share best practices regarding deep learning model development, agent-workflow evaluation, and MLOps, and help teammates level up through code reviews and technical guidance.

Skills

Python

Java

Deep learning

Communication skills

Education

Master’s or PhD in CS/Statistics or related STEM

Tools

PyTorch

Spark

Kotlin

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Faire Wholesale Inc. is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist to lead the design and implementation of real-time search and recommendation systems for our wholesale platform. You will work with cross-functional teams to advance personalized discovery for independent retailers worldwide.

You will apply transformer-based models, graph signals, and multi-modal data to deliver hyper-relevant product results and explainable search experiences. Hybrid work and equity are offered.