SEKAI revolutionize how digital twins are being built, used and scaled! Backed by a16z speedrun.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own search and recommendation systems for Sekai’s consumer product. This role sits at the center of content discovery, user engagement, and content distribution. You will build the models and systems that decide what users see, what they search for, what they continue playing, and how high-quality content reaches the right audience. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of industry experience building production ML systems, with senior-level ownership of recommendation, search, ranking, ads ranking, feed ranking, or content discovery systems
- Hands-on experience building recommendation or search systems for consumer apps
- Experience working on entertainment, social, gaming, short-form content, creator, or other engagement-driven consumer products
- Strong practical experience with two-tower models, embedding retrieval, candidate generation, ranking, and online/offline evaluation
- Strong product intuition around relevance, retention, engagement, satisfaction, cold start, and content distribution
- Ability to translate messy user behavior into useful modeling signals and practical product improvements
More about this role
Sekai is building the TikTok for mini apps — an AI-driven consumer platform where people create, remix, share, and play interactive content instantly.
We are a Series A company backed by Khosla, a16z and Mayfield, with $30M raised to date. We are remote-first across all positions and are looking for ambitious, AI-native builders who want to help shape the next generation of consumer social products.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.sekai.app&hl=en_US
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sekai-create-remix-play/id6504506653
We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own search and recommendation systems for Sekai’s consumer product.
This role sits at the center of content discovery, user engagement, and content distribution. You will build the models and systems that decide what users see, what they search for, what they continue playing, and how high-quality content reaches the right audience.
This is a senior IC role for someone who has built real recommendation, search, ranking, or discovery systems in production for consumer apps, especially in entertainment-driven products.
Build and improve recommendation and search systems across feed,...
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