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Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Matching and Recommendations

Bumble · US TX Austin · Remote

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About Bumble

Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while making connections, whether you're dating or looking for friends. Backed by Accel and Bessemer.

About the role

As our Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Matching & Recommendations , you’ll help define the technical and ML strategy behind the next generation of Bumble’s recommendation systems. You’ll remain hands-on while tackling complex problems across retrieval, ranking, personalization, experimentation, and two-sided marketplace optimization , partnering across Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics to turn ambiguous member problems into scalable ML solutions.

More about this role

At Bumble, we’re building the Love Company — a place where healthy, equitable relationships and friendships can start and grow. Machine Learning sits at the heart of that mission, helping us understand what makes a meaningful connection and powering the matching, recommendation, and personalization experiences that bring people together.

As our Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Matching & Recommendations , you’ll help define the technical and ML strategy behind the next generation of Bumble’s recommendation systems. You’ll remain hands-on while tackling complex problems across retrieval, ranking, personalization, experimentation, and two-sided marketplace optimization , partnering across Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics to turn ambiguous member problems into scalable ML solutions. You’ll lead through technical influence, raise the bar for ML engineering across the organization, and help us build systems that optimize not simply for engagement, but for better connections and meaningful member outcomes.

What you'll do

Define and lead the technical strategy for AI and Machine Learning systems that power recommendations, ranking, and personalization across Bumble...

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