Staff ML Engineer — Search & Retrieval

Etsy; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Annual bonus

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Etsy, the global marketplace, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer I to join the Search Retrieval team in NYC. You will advance scalable retrieval systems that surface relevant listings from a vast catalog, combining lexical and semantic methods with production‑grade reliability.

You will own models end‑to‑end, mentor engineers, run live experiments, and partner with product teams to shape roadmaps. This hybrid role requires strong ML, software skills, and a collaborative mindset to help

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building retrieval or search systems end-to-end, including lexical and semantic methods.
• Experience delivering ML/NLP solutions across data, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, production integration.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale advanced retrieval systems optimizing relevance, recall, latency, and resilience.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations to drive product impact and strategic goals.
• Take retrieval techniques from research to production, owning experimentation to launch.

Skills

Retrieval systems

End-to-end ML

Python

Java/Scala

NLP

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

TFX

Job description

Etsy, the global marketplace, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer I to join the Search Retrieval team in NYC. You will advance scalable retrieval systems that surface relevant listings from a vast catalog, combining lexical and semantic methods with production‑grade reliability.

You will own models end‑to‑end, mentor engineers, run live experiments, and partner with product teams to shape roadmaps. This hybrid role requires strong ML, software skills, and a collaborative mindset to help