Machine Learning Engineer - Search (AI)

Location: Remote - Americas

Company

hirify.global provides commerce infrastructure that helps entrepreneurs and enterprises start and scale businesses worldwide.

What you will do

• Design and implement AI-powered features for search recommendations and personalization.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to productionize data products through experimentation and metrics analysis.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for search and recommendation systems.
• Develop evaluation and relevance-engineering tools using high-quality software engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists while supporting technical excellence and innovation.
• Participate in on-call work if required.

Requirements

• Expertise in relevance engineering and recommendation systems, with hands-on experience in Elasticsearch, Solr, or vector databases.
• Strong proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming.
• Ability to write optimized, low-latency code for high-performance systems.
• Track record of shipping machine learning solutions used by real users.
• Readiness to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, changing environment and work digital-first.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying machine learning, NLP, or generative AI products at scale.
• Familiarity with statistical methods.
• Exposure to Ruby, Rails, or Rust.

Culture & Benefits

• Digital-first daily work.
• Fast-paced environment with a focus on independence, resilience, resourcefulness, and continuous growth.
• Opportunity to work on commerce products serving millions of merchants and customers.
• AI-enabled tools may be used to screen, select, and assess applications; recruitment outputs are reviewed and validated.

Hiring process

• Be prepared to interview within one week of applying.
• The interview loop is targeted for completion within 30 days.
• The process includes a live pair-programming session using the candidate's own IDE.