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Machine Learning Engineer, Content and Navigation

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Whatnot

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United States , San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA

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Not provided

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Salary:

245000.00 - 345000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

The Discovery Content and Navigation (CAN) team’s mission is to capture intent and content signals to build a seamless, engaging, and personalized navigation experience for Whatnot buyers. We’re passionate about enabling and maintaining a healthy discovery ecosystem—one where buyers can easily find fun shows and connect with sellers. Our work spans a wide range of problems, including search, taxonomy, events, and intent and content understanding. We leverage AI technology, make data-informed decisions, and ship quickly to deliver value to our users.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead the design, development, and productionization of ML models to capture intent and content signals that powers personalized navigational experience, search, and recommendations
  • Lead ML-based projects from end-to-end: scoping and planning, data collection and feature engineering, model training and deployment, backend implementation, and online experimentation
  • Support product initiatives like category and brand recommendations, promote high quality and relevant livestreams and products in feed and search
  • Work closely with teammates and cross-functional partners to implement ML-based solutions into production at scale
  • Drive technical excellence and establish ML best practices across the team and org

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of generalist software development experience in high growth startups
  • 4+ years of industry experience building and deploying ML models to solve user problems at scale
  • Industry experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data
  • Experience in applied statistical and machine learning fields e.g. search, recommendations, content understanding, natural language processing, and large language models
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and common ML frameworks
  • Strong communication and leadership skills
  • ability to influence roadmap and align cross-functional teams in a remote environment
  • Excellent product instincts
  • You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
  • You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
What we offer:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
  • Monthly allowance for wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement
  • 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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