Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Recommender Systems) (Xico)

Factored is a Latin American company founded in Palo Alto that helps U.S. companies build and scale world‑class AI, ML, and Data teams using top LATAM talent. We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer who is passionate about building state‑of‑the‑art recommender systems and leveraging Generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement recommender systems to improve product discovery and enhance customer engagement across digital and physical platforms.
• Build and manage scalable machine‑learning pipelines for data processing, feature engineering, model training, and deployment using Databricks and Spark.
• Apply and optimize advanced machine‑learning models for recommendation systems, including Wide & Deep models, Two‑Tower architectures, Transformer‑based models (e.g., NRMS), embeddings‑based approaches, neural networks, autoencoder‑based models (e.g., AutoRec), and deep sequential models such as GRU4Rec.
• Collaborate closely with s...