Engineering
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Full-time
Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer
New York, New York
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hybrid
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 tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role
Joining Hinge’s AI Platform Core team offers a unique opportunity to help define and contribute to a growing ML platform with the goal of accelerating the development, deployment, and operations of AI enabled features on Hinge. If you are excited by the idea of working on challenges ranging from maturing and scaling our training and serving frameworks to enable millisecond real-time predictions and models that continually learn at scale, providing automatic model performance monitoring & debug frameworks, and building Platforms for architecting and evaluating generative AI & Agentic systems, then read on!
With a mission to democratize AI for Hinge, ensuring it remains easily accessible, robust, scalable, cost-efficient, and trusted. You'll collaborate across our product and platform teams, as well as with external stakeholders like data science and backend engineering. You will meet our internal customers where they are and optimize towards their needs by delivering value incrementally and coupled to their problems. Being part of a small yet impactful team means having a broad scope of responsibility. As the role of ML at Hinge is only becoming more impactful, this role provides you with a chance to grow in impact and scope across the company. This is an exciting opportunity to own and help define the future of machine learning within a growing and maturing team!
Responsibilities
- Own or contribute to technical designs for the feature platform, training platform, serving platform, AI observability platform and GenAI Platform and underlying operational infrastructure to enable Product impact.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance frameworks for AI/ML model development and deployment while establishing and driving best practices in MLOps / GenAI engineering.
- Design, advocate, and implement for usability, reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management while delivering incrementally.
- Collaborate closely with ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Product Managers to understand their needs and identify opportunities to accelerate the AI/ML development and deployment process.
- Mentor and educate ML Engineers, Backend Engineers and Product Managers on current and up and coming tools and technologies for ML operations & GenAI product development through presentations and documentation.
- Help design and architect an AI platform that adheres to the principles of responsible AI (Authenticity, Transparency, Equity) and builds privacy compliance into the platform.
- Lead build vs buy discussions on technologies that underpin the Platforms we serve.
- Participate in on-call and Incident Management processes.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of experience, depending on education, as an ML, backend, data, or platform engineer developing and working with large scale, complex systems.
- 2+ years of experience working on a cloud environment such as GCP, AWS, Azure, and with dev-ops tooling such as Kubernetes
- 1+ year of experience leading projects with at least 1 other team member through completion.
- 1+ year of experience for Senior designing and developing online and production grade ML systems.
- A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills: Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, or Java.
- System design & architecture: Ability to design scalable and efficient ML systems.
- Cloud platform proficiency: The ability to utilize cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- ML knowledge: A basic understanding of ML algorithms, techniques, and best practices.
- Data engineering knowledge: Skills in handling and managing large datasets including, data cleaning, preprocessing, and storage
- 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..
- Strong written communication: The ability to communicate complex ideas and technical knowledge through documentation
- Software leadership skills: A track record of leading projects through completion with quantifiable and measurable outcomes.
Salary Range
$204,000.00 - $262,000.00 per year salary
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.
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.
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Perks & Benefits
Do your best work, live your best life
401(k) Matching
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
Professional Growth
Get a $3,000 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 6,000 courses, starting your first day.
Parental Leave & Planning
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
Fertility Support
You and your spouse/domestic partner will get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, which offers convenient access to a range of fertility care options. We offer up to $10,000 to assist with covering fertility expenses, including basic treatments and fertility preservation.
Date Stipend
Date Stipend
Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates – romantic or otherwise. HingeX is also free for employees and their loved ones.
ERGs
ERGs
We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Vibras, Women/Nonbinary, Parents, and Remote—that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.
A call to get to know each other.
Transparency, candor and humility allow us to focus on delivering outstanding results without getting distracted by ego, gossip or politics.
The skills interview.
Breakthroughs require our willingness to take risks. We strive toward audacious goals, expecting and persevering through setbacks and failures along the way.
The narrative interview.
We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.
The culture interview.
We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.
Making an offer.
We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.
Full-Time & Hybrid Employees
What you’ll love about our New York office.
We believe in the power of in-person connection. For full-time and hybrid employees, Hinge HQ is a place to collaborate and get to know each other.
Catered Lunches
Commuter Benefits
All-Gender Restrooms
Nursing & Wellness Rooms
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Apply for this roleWhat does Hinge’s relationship with Match Group mean?
What does Hinge’s relationship with Match Group mean?
In early 2019, Hinge was fully acquired by Match Group. Founder and CEO, Justin McLeod, still leads an executive team that sets the overall mission and vision for Hinge as well as our working norms, policies and day-to-day priorities. While certain corporate functions are managed at the MG portfolio level, working for Hinge is intentionally a unique experience.
TLDR: We get the best of both worlds! Hinge still gets to operate like a small company, and we have the stability and resources of a much larger legacy company that has stood the test of time.
I’ve never used Hinge before. Am I still a fit for this role?
I’ve never used Hinge before. Am I still a fit for this role?
Of course! Having used Hinge or any other dating app is definitely not a requirement. That being said, we are looking for team members who genuinely believe our product can and will help people all over the world connect. Our team is passionate about the dating industry and we hope you’ll be passionate about it too!
What requirements are there for in-office and hybrid roles?
What requirements are there for in-office and hybrid roles?
Hybrid roles at Hinge are based in NYC and require weekly presence in our Meatpacking District office. The team values in-person collaboration and we hope to see everyone in our beautiful office space three days a week starting Fall of 2023. Each team will have some freedom to determine what works best for them, but we generally aim for consistent in-office days to maximize the opportunity to collaborate.
TLDR: Beautiful working spaces, lots of plants, even more food and snacks, dog friendly - 3 days a week :)
What can I expect from Hinge’s culture?
What can I expect from Hinge’s culture?
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 our three core values. Authenticity, Courage, and Empathy are what it takes to build those great relationships.
How many people currently work at Hinge?
How many people currently work at Hinge?
We are growing each week, but last time we checked, more than 320 talented and beautiful souls are a part of the Hinge team across all of our departments.
How does compensation work?
How does compensation work?
Paying our people fairly and equitably is really important to us! We offer packages with three types of compensation depending on role type and level. Most compensation packages at Hinge consist of base salary, annual bonus target percentage and equity in the form of MTCH stock.
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.