Match Group · 16 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$265K/yr - $280K/yr
8+ years expMatch Group is the parent company of Tinder, a revolutionary app that has transformed how people connect. They are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff-level Machine Learning Engineer to lead cross-cutting initiatives and provide technical direction across multiple domains within the ML team.
DatingInternetMobile AppsSocial Media
Responsibilities
Lead and execute cross-cutting machine learning initiatives that span multiple ML domains, especially where ownership is unclear or problems cut across teams
Partner closely with the Director of Engineering to identify the opportunities and set the technical direction of ML team
Step into complex or struggling projects, diagnose issues quickly, and help bring them back on track through hands-on technical leadership and execution
Embed with individual pods as needed to provide deep technical support, unblock delivery, and raise the quality bar for ML systems and implementations
Act as a strategic thought partner to engineering managers, helping shape technical strategy and identify gaps, risks, and opportunities across ML platforms and systems
Collaborate with domain tech leads as a cross-domain advisor, aligning architectures, data pipelines, and modeling approaches across teams
Influence technical direction and best practices across the ML organization through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance
Mentor senior engineers and help develop technical leadership across the team, without direct people management responsibility
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Computer Science or an equivalent field with 8+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping production machine learning systems at scale
At least two peer-reviewed publications in top-tier conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, WWW, ACL, CVPR, or equivalent), demonstrating strong ML fundamentals and technical depth
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Professional work experience in Recommendation Systems or Causal Inference (Revenue or Growth)
Strong hands-on engineering skills, with the ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code and ML pipelines
Proven track record as a senior individual contributor (Staff or Principal level) of translating complex, ambiguous business problems into Machine Learning problems
Deep understanding of end-to-end ML systems, including data pipelines, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
Experience of partnering closely with engineering managers and senior stakeholders to lead cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction and execution
Hands-on experience with the following (or equivalent/similar) tools in production environments: Kubernetes, Triton Inference Server, Ray Serve, Airflow, Flink, or Spark (Databricks)
Company
Match Group
Match Group is a division of IAC &and online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world. It is a sub-organization of IAC.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$700MKey Investors
Starboard Value
2025-08-06Post Ipo Debt· $700M
2024-07-15Post Ipo Equity
2015-11-18IPO
Leadership Team
Spencer Rascoff
Chief Executive Officer
Steven Bailey
Chief Financial Officer
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