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Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted.
The Role
The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will design, develop, and deploy ML systems to enhance user growth and monetization at Hinge, collaborating with teams and ensuring ethical AI practices.
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Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted
In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role:
We are hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to drive the design, development, and deployment of machine learning systems that power our core products in User Growth and Monetization. You will work on building deeply personalized user experiences that drive business growth and meet individual needs and preferences: by targeting the right users with the right products at the right time, we empower product teams to drive meaningful growth in revenue and user engagement while enhancing user satisfaction.
The Growth Product Group is responsible for the development of paid features to accelerate dating outcomes, driving engagement throughout a user’s lifecycle and making Hinge the dating destination for all communities. You can expect to work on a broad range of problems, from identifying how to send the right message to the right user at the right time to optimizing the efficacy of our paid offerings. This is a fast growing team, and you will help define the vision and strategy that drives meaningful growth and accelerates machine learning at Hinge.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end development of production-grade ML systems such as user targeting models that will help drive engagement, improve dating outcomes and/or improve user adoption of and engagement with paid features
- Define and own the technical roadmap for ML within your product area and align with company-wide priorities
- Collaborate closely with ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Managers to understand their needs and identify opportunities to accelerate the AI/ML development and deployment process
- Design, advocate, and implement for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management while delivering impact to our daters incrementally
- Keep abreast of and bring to Hinge applicable cutting-edge research, technologies, and best practices in the ML/AI space.
- Mentor and educate ML Engineers on current and up and coming research, technologies and best practices of doing ML at scale.
- Ensure the ethical and responsible use of ML/AI and compliance with privacy regulations to protect user data
- Communicate effectively to audiences of various technical and non-technical backgrounds
What We're Looking For:
- Strong programming skills: Proficiency in Python and ML libraries such as PyTorch
- Domain expertise: Deep understanding of machine learning, deep learning, and emerging AI technologies. Proven track record of building, debugging, and fine-tuning machine learning for user facing products. Experience with causal inference, uplift modeling, and interventional data collection is a plus.
- System design & architecture: Strong background in setting up and optimizing ML infrastructure, including containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD workflows for ML (e.g., model versioning, automated testing).
- Cloud platform proficiency: The ability to utilize cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure. Familiarity with ML serving solutions like Ray, KubeFlow, or Weights & Biases is a plus.
- Data engineering knowledge: Skills in handling and managing large datasets including data cleaning, preprocessing, and storage. Good understanding of batch and streaming pipelines as well as orchestrators like Argo and Airflow.
- Collaboration and communication skills: The ability to work effectively in a team and communicate complex ideas clearly with individuals from diverse technical and non-technical backgrounds..
- Software leadership skills: A track record of leading projects through completion with quantifiable and measurable outcomes.
- 5+ years of experience, depending on education, as an MLE, with at least 2 years in a senior or staff-level role
- Previous experience in User Growth or Monetization
- 3+ years of experience designing and developing end-to-end, production grade ML systems
- 4+ years of experience working in a cloud environment such as GCP, AWS, Azure
- 3+ years of experience leading projects with at least 1 other team member through completion.
- A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
As a member of our team, you’ll enjoy:
401(k) Matching: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
Professional Growth: Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you’ve been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.
Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)
Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Date Stipend: All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates– Romantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.
ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Raices, Women/Nonbinary, Parents —that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.
At Hinge, our core values are…
Authenticity: We share, never hide, our words, actions and intentions.
Courage: We embrace lofty goals and tough challenges.
Empathy: We deeply consider the perspective of others.
Diversity inspires innovation
Hinge is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please let your Talent Acquisition partner know.
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The Company
What We Do
In today’s digital world, singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that they’re not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Hinge is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective app experience. We want to create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections. Relationships are at the core of everything we do. And not just the romantic kind. We can't accomplish really hard things alone - so we make great relationships the foundation of our teamwork.
We believe these three core values are what it takes to build those great relationships: Authenticity, we share - never hide - our words, actions, and intentions. Courage, breakthroughs require a willingness to take risks and embrace lofty goals and tough challenges. Empathy, we're all humans first. So we deeply consider the perspectives of others, listen openly, and speak with care.
Why Work With Us
We're mission-driven. While most apps think about boosting sessions and time on app, we think strategically about meaningful end results (dates and relationships).
We're culture-first. We believe in great people over process. Decisions are pushed to the front lines, with feedback and coaching provided by our leaders.
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Hinge Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Hinge believes in the power of in-person connection. We have adopted a hybrid model that allows our people to stay connected to each other in-person.
Typical time on-site:
2.5 days a week
New York, NY
Our office is located in the beautiful Meatpacking district. We're steps away from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line and near Chelsea Market. You'll not only fall in love with us, but with our office.
