# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Premium Discovery at Scribd

- Company: Scribd
- What the company does: Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting. Backed by Y Combinator, CRV and Redpoint.
- Company website: http://scribd.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ScribdInc/be52ca1d-f715-4870-8629-ad0a41aa3c38?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribd-senior-machine-learning-engineer-premium-discovery/

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own recommendations for Fable and grow into the technical lead for Premium recommendations. Fable's recommender today is a collaborative-filtering model built in house. It has served readers well, but it has no real-time signals and no learned ranking, and it can't recommend to new or lapsed readers. Your first big project is to move Fable onto Orion, so Fable and Everand share a modern recommendation stack. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years as a professional ML or software engineer, with a track record of shipping production ML systems
- Hands-on experience building and running recommender systems in production, such as collaborative filtering or matrix factorization, two-tower or embedding retrieval, and learned ranking
- Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark, Databricks, BigQuery or similar)
- Experience on at least one major cloud (AWS or GCP), including deploying services on containers (Kubernetes, ECS or similar)
- Experience designing and analyzing online experiments
- A record of leading projects that depend on other teams, and of working directly with product managers

Tags: Engineering

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