Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML, RecSys

Liquid AI
Boston2026-03-30Hybrid

About the job

This is a rare chance to apply frontier sequential recommendation architectures to real enterprise problems at scale. You will own applied ML work end-to-end for recommendation system workloads, adapting Liquid Foundation Models for customers who need personalization and ranking capabilities that run efficiently under production constraints.

Responsibilities

Act as the technical owner for enterprise customer engagements involving recommendation and ranking workloads

Translate customer requirements into concrete specifications for recommendation models

Design and execute data pipelines for user interaction data, feature engineering, and training data curation at scale

Fine-tune and adapt large-scale sequential recommendation models (e.g., HSTU-style architectures) for customer-specific use cases

Design task-specific evaluations for recommendation model performance (ranking quality, latency, throughput) and interpret results

Build reusable applied tooling and workflows that accelerate future customer engagements

Qualifications

Minimum

Hands-on experience building or fine-tuning recommendation models at scale (not just off-the-shelf collaborative filtering)

Experience with sequential recommendation architectures, user behavior modeling, or large-scale ranking systems

Strong intuition for data quality and evaluation design in recommendation contexts (offline metrics, A/B testing, business metric alignment)

Experience with large-scale data pipelines for user interaction data and feature engineering

Proficiency in Python and PyTorch with autonomous coding and debugging ability

Preferred

Experience with transformer-based recommendation architectures (HSTU, SASRec, BERT4Rec, or similar)

Experience delivering recommendation systems to external customers with measurable business outcomes

Familiarity with serving recommendation models under latency and throughput constraints