# Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Babylist

- Company: Babylist
- What the company does: Babylist is the best baby registry for growing families. Add baby gear from any store including Amazon, Target, and Etsy. Start building your registry today! Backed by Norwest and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.babylist.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $234K to $291K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply by: 2026-11-16
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/babylist/jobs/6211274004?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/babylist-staff-machine-learning-engineer/

## About the role

We're hiring a Staff MLE for the Discovery team to own recommendations and personalization across Babylist's consumer experience — the homepage feed, product recs, search, and the ML-powered systems that make registry building feel effortless. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Expertise in recommender fundamentals: for example, candidate generation vs. ranking, offline vs. online evaluation, cold start solutions, and handling position and popularity bias
- Fluency in the Python ML stack and comfort owning models through deployment and monitoring, including contributions to our application backend
- An ability to take an ambiguous problem and start moving before anyone hands you the full picture
- A builder's instinct for early-stage ML. You understand effort vs. effectiveness tradeoffs and can advocate for when a rule beats a model, or a model is “good enough” for early learnings
- An outcome and user focused mindset. You measure yourself by business impact, and you can connect a model change to user experience & registry adds, conversion or revenue
- AI-native daily practice. You're already using AI to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/babylist-staff-machine-learning-engineer/