Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI R&DPosted today

The opportunity

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and ship end-to-end personalization, ranking, and: recommendation systems that power core Robinhood products including growth, social feeds, and search — handling the full ML lifecycle from feature engineering through model deployment and monitoring.

  • Partner closely with product, data engineering, and platform teams to define: technical strategy, scope complex projects, and drive execution across multiple workstreams simultaneously.

  • Lead zero-to-one development of new ML capabilities: prototyping, iterating, and scaling models in a high-stakes fintech environment where data quality and regulatory constraints are first-class concerns.

  • Evaluate, experiment with, and integrate modern AI paradigms including: agentic workflows and LLM fine-tuning into existing ML systems, pushing the team's technical capabilities forward.

  • Set the technical bar through architecture reviews, code reviews, and: mentorship — helping to elevate the craft and velocity of the broader AI R&D team.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI R&D at Robinhood | Role Match