# Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist - Search at Faire

- Company: Faire
- What the company does: Backed by Founders Fund, Lightspeed and Norwest.
- Company website: https://faire.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $211K to $291K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/faire/jobs/8618124002?gh_jid=8618124002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/faire-senior-applied-ml-ai-scientist-search/

## About the role

Search is how retailers do their jobs on Faire. Wholesale queries and retailer expectations look different from consumer e-commerce and the right product depends on the store's category, price point, and aesthetic. When we get it wrong, it costs real money.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years building production ML systems, with meaningful time in search, recommendations, or another retrieval-and-relevance domain
- Shipped models that served real traffic, and owned the experiments that proved (or disproved) their value
- Depth somewhere in the modern retrieval stack — dual encoders and ANN serving, LLM-based query understanding, learning-to-rank fundamentals — and the ability to pick up the rest
- Strong Python and the engineering chops to take your own models to production
- Clear communication with scientists, engineers, and PMs: you make a crisp case for your ideas and update quickly when someone has a better one
- Excellent product judgment to connect customer and business context to technical decisions

Tags: Algorithms & Data