Staff Machine Learning Engineer AI R&D
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Robinhood
Robinhood helps retail investors access financial markets through commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. With it, users can invest with no account minimums, earn rewards through retirement accounts with matching contributions, and access advanced trading tools. Robinhood democratizes investing by making financial markets accessible to everyone, not just wealthy investors.
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About the Role
You will design and ship personalization, ranking, and recommendation systems through the full machine learning lifecycle, lead new ML capabilities from prototype to production, integrate agentic workflows and LLM fine-tuning, define technical strategy, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer
- Strong foundation in ranking, recommendation systems, deep learning, and optimization
- Experience shipping models to production at scale
- Expertise in personalization and recommendation systems
- Experience owning systems end to end in a high-traffic, data-rich environment
- Ability to deliver production-grade solutions from ambiguous problems
- Experience with agentic systems or LLM fine-tuning
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- Strong Python coding skills
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure tooling
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship personalization, ranking, and recommendation systems
- Manage feature engineering, model deployment, and monitoring
- Partner with product, data engineering, and platform teams
- Define technical strategy and drive execution across workstreams
- Lead zero-to-one development of ML capabilities
- Prototype, iterate, and scale models
- Evaluate and integrate agentic workflows and LLM fine-tuning
- Lead architecture reviews and code reviews
- Mentor engineers
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- 100% paid health insurance for employees
- 90% health insurance coverage for dependents
- Access to AI tools
- Continuous AI skill-building
- Lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Comfortable workspaces
