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Match Group

Global dating platforms with subscription model

Machine Learning Research Scientist

AI ResearchConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSeoul, South KoreaNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A PhD in machine learning or a related field, or equivalent research capability.
  • At least 5 years of experience developing and improving machine-learning-based products or services in industry.
  • Experience defining ambiguous business problems as clear machine-learning problems and designing solution strategies based on theoretical grounds and experimentation.
  • Experience independently driving complex, difficult problems to resolution and connecting model performance to improvements in user experience or business metrics.
  • Ability to collaborate with researchers, engineers, and nontechnical functions, align technical direction, and persuasively lead decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Define key problems to solve in Azar's recommendation and moderation areas as a core partner to the Head of AI; align perspectives across functions and leadership, and jointly determine organizational priorities and execution strategy based on business impact and technical feasibility.
  • Identify opportunities not readily apparent from existing product requirements by drawing on current AI and machine-learning research and technological developments; propose ways new technologies could transform Azar and assess their investment value based on technical and business feasibility and long-term technical advantage.
  • Reframe business requirements as AI and machine-learning problems and design solutions by considering deep learning, classical machine learning, statistics, and optimization; use an understanding of problem structure and machine-learning theory to seek solutions close to theoretical optima within constraints rather than relying on repeated heuristics and exception handling.
  • Directly tackle difficult, unresolved machine-learning problems and urgent business problems; validate changes in user experience and live-service metrics, beyond offline model performance, to produce long-term product and business outcomes.
  • Understand the full machine-learning system connecting data, training, evaluation, experimentation, serving, and feedback; design the system structure and the roles of its components from a machine-learning perspective to enable fast, reliable experimentation and continuous improvement.
  • Align research topics and solution directions with other Machine Learning Research Scientists, and guide research toward a unified technical strategy and product outcomes; collaborate with Machine Learning Software Engineers, data engineers, and product teams, and lead technical decisions that bring research results into products.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience publishing a first-author paper in the main track of at least one top-tier AI or machine-learning conference, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, or KDD.
  • Research experience in recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, LLMs, or AI Agent-related core technologies.
  • Experience productizing and iteratively improving machine-learning systems for consumer-facing services that handle large-scale traffic.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions with global teams in English.

About the Company

Match Group

Global dating platforms with subscription model

Match Group runs a family of online dating and social-discovery services. It operates a B2C model built on freemium access, with premium subscriptions and in-app purchases that unlock features like better visibility, advanced search filters, and unlimited interactions, plus an advertising channel. Its apps use a swipe-style interface and real-time, location-based discovery, supported by proprietary matchmaking algorithms and a closed-loop data ecosystem to improve experiences across brands. It emphasizes safety tools such as Face Check. The company differentiates itself by owning a large portfolio of brands (including Tinder, Hinge, and Match) and leveraging cross-brand data and technology to optimize experiences, expand into new markets, and acquire emerging platforms. Its goal is to help people form romantic relationships, friendships, and social connections at a global scale while generating recurring revenue through subscriptions and ads.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dallas, TX
Founded
1986

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