Machine Learning Engineer, Marketplace

Mercor Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Marketplace team at Mercor, you will build the models and decision systems that power the company’s hiring engine, directly impacting how talent is discovered, matched, and hired across a rapidly growing global network.
• Your day-to-day work will involve designing and deploying ranking and matching systems, recommendation engines, personalization models, and real-time inference pipelines that operate at scale, using feedback from downstream hiring outcomes to improve model performance.
• You will join a profitable, fast-paced, and deeply committed team at a Series C company valued at $10 billion, working alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping AI-driven work systems.
• In this role, you will gain hands-on experience solving complex, real-world ML challenges such as sparse and delayed labels, cold start, noisy feedback, and multi-objective optimization, while seeing the direct impact of your work on product quality, speed, conversion, and revenue.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong track record of shipping ML systems into production
• Experience with ranking, recommendation, search, matching, or marketplace problems
• Good judgment on model design, objective functions, evaluation, and tradeoffs
• Comfort working across the full applied ML stack: data, features, training, inference, and iteration
• Strong engineering fundamentals and a bias toward simple, robust systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
• $10K housing bonus (if living within 0.5 miles of the office)
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership
• Health insurance

Skills & Technologies

Python

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Onsite

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About Mercor Inc.

Mercor Inc. operates an AI-driven hiring marketplace that matches companies with global engineering, finance, and operations talent. Its platform uses machine-learning models to screen résumés, conduct automated interviews, and rank candidates, enabling employers to hire pre-vetted contractors or full-time staff within days. Founded in 2023 by former MIT researchers, the San Francisco-based company serves startups and Fortune 500 clients, handling sourcing, payroll, and compliance across 25 countries. Revenue comes from placement fees and ongoing markups on contractor rates, while talent access roles remotely in software development, data science, sales, and product management.

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