# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation at Sekai

- Company: Sekai
- What the company does: SEKAI revolutionize how digital twins are being built, used and scaled! Backed by a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://sekai.io
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sekai/512cc777-ad6b-4924-8fef-fa5325811483?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sekai-senior-machine-learning-engineer-recommendation/

## 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

Tags: Technical Staff

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