Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Recommendations

SoundCloud's Recommendations Experience team is hiring a Senior ML Engineer to build ML-powered features that directly improve personalization, engagement and satisfaction for 200M+ users.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test and productionize ML and LLM-based systems serving real users
• Design and build end-to-end ML pipelines, including data, features, training and serving
• Make technical decisions considering cost, latency, complexity and maintainability
• Navigate distributed systems (BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow, DynamoDB) to build reliable, scalable solutions
• Set up monitoring, A/B testing and metrics frameworks to measure real user impact
• Contribute to technical strategy and team best practices

Experience and Background

• 1-2+ years building ML systems in production
• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong Python and Scala (or Java/JVM) skills
• Experience building and deploying ML models end-to-end (data, training, serving, monitoring)
• Experience building and deploying LLM-based features in production
• Strong SQL skills for massive datasets (BigQuery, Spark)
• Cloud platform experience (AWS/GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch