Hiring: Director of Engineering, Machine Learning Recommendations Company: Etsy Location: Brooklyn, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:42:08 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Feature Store, LLM, Machine Learning, PyTorch, Systems Engineering, TensorFlow About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive experience in ML engineering, with demonstrated success shipping large-scale recommendation, retrieval, or ranking systems into production. Required Skills: •This opportunity is a full-time position reporting to the VP of Engineering at Search, Recommendations, and Ads. •What's this team like at Etsy? •The Recommendations organization sits at the heart of Etsy's marketplace. We own over 60 recommendation modules across Etsy's surfaces, with our most impactful work powering the App Homefeed, Web Home, Shop Home, Listing pages, Cart, and Checkout pages. •We believe in research grounded in real user impact. We run rigorous offline and online experiments, use LLM-based and human-in-the-loop evaluation, and hold ourselves to both engagement and discovery metrics. •What does the day-to-day look like? •Define and drive the multi-year product and technical roadmap for Recommendations ML, with particular focus on personalization, foresight, diversity, and content freshness — the four problems where we have the most room to grow. •Lead and grow a team of ML engineers, applied scientists, and platform engineers across retrieval, ranking, and systems sub-teams, each with its own engineering manager. •Partner closely with product, UX, and cross-functional ML teams (Search, Ads, Buyer Understanding, Content Understanding) to align on a coherent, end-to-end buyer experience and shared infrastructure investments. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!