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[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer II

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Indeed is a job site focused on helping people get jobs and creating an inclusive workplace. The Machine Learning Engineer II will design, develop, and optimize large-scale retrieval and recommendation systems, deploy machine learning solutions to production, and improve matching technology through experimentation. The role also partners with cross-functional teams, mentors colleagues, breaks down initiatives, and represents Indeed at major machine learning conferences.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize large-scale retrieval algorithms for search and recommendation systems
  • Drive candidate job selection by balancing relevance, marketplace objectives, and product impact to improve user outcomes
  • Partner with product, ranking, and infrastructure teams to translate business goals into production-ready ML solutions
  • Demonstrated software engineering skills, including production ready model design, testing, code reviews, and production debugging
  • Build highly scalable and performant recommendation systems and technologies that can identify optimum matches between millions of jobs and millions of job seekers in real-time
  • Experiment with Proof-Of-Concept Machine Learning (POC ML) model improvements, scale them to production, and run iterative A/B experiments to improve our matching technology
  • Mentor other software engineers, data scientists, and Machine Learning Engineers in the team
  • Break down larger Machine Learning initiatives into pieces that deliver incremental business value and implement them
  • Represent Indeed at major Machine Learning conferences like Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Skills

  • Demonstrated software engineering skills, including production ready model design, testing, code reviews, and production debugging
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or a Master's degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience; or a PhD without experience
  • Prior success in deploying impactful Machine Learning solutions to large-scale production systems
  • Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  • Exceptional sense of ownership
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English, effective with technical audiences
  • Knowledge and practical experience working on Deep Learning Libraries (like Torch, Tensorflow, etc.)
  • Equivalent expertise demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education is welcome

Benefits

  • Quarterly bonuses
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • A Paid Time Off policy
  • Many region-specific benefits

Company Overview

  • Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings. It was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.indeed.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Indeed has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 102 in 2026, 192 in 2025, 156 in 2024, 216 in 2023, 302 in 2022, 160 in 2021, 210 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.