Software Engineer (Machine learning & Recommendation) at Mercari, Inc · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 6 - 9 years · Profitable · Posted 14 Apr 2026

Introduction
About Us:
Mercari is a Japan-based C2C marketplace company founded in 2013 with the mission to “Create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” From being the first tech unicorn from Japan before its IPO in 2018 we have come a long way towards becoming a global player and continuously and diligently work towards our transformation journey with a strong focus on our mission.
Since its inception, Mercari Group has worked to grow its services, investing in both our people and technology. Over time Mercari has expanded from being the top player in the C2C marketplace in Japan to new geographies like the U.S. We have also successfully launched new businesses such as Merpay, which is a mobile payment service platform with a vision to create a society where anyone can realize their dreams through a new ecosystem centered not only on payment service but also on credit. Today, Mercari Group is made up of multiple subsidiary businesses including logistics, B2C platform, blockchain, and sports team management.
For our services to be utilized by people worldwide; however, there is still a mountain of work ahead of us. This endeavor naturally requires the capability of the best talent and minds, and that is exactly the reason for us to launch the India Center of Excellence. With your help, we will continue to take on the world stage and strive to grow into a successful global tech company.
Our Culture:
To achieve our mission at Mercari, our organization and each of our employees share the same values and perspectives. Our individual guidelines for action are defined by our four values: Go Bold, All for One, Be a Pro and Move Fast. Our organization is also shaped by our four foundations: Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Trust & Openness, and Well-being for Performance. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and something we want to preserve throughout our organization. We invite you to read the Mercari Culture Doc which summarizes the behaviors and mindset shared by Mercari and its employees. We continue to build an environment where all of our members of diverse backgrounds are accepted and recognized, and where they can thrive while holding dear to Mercari’s culture.
Work Responsibilities
- Machine learning engineers working in the Recommendation domain develop the functions and services of the marketplace app Mercari through the development and maintenance of machine learning systems like Recommender systems while leveraging necessary infrastructure and companywide platform tools.
- Mercari is actively applying advanced machine learning technology to provide a more convenient, safer, and more enjoyable marketplace. Machine learning engineers use the cloud and Kubernetes to operate and improve machine learning systems.
Bold Challenges
- We are looking for people who are interested in our services, mission, and values, and want to work where engineers can go bold, use the latest technology, make autonomous decisions, and take on challenges at a rapid pace.
- Develop and optimize machine learning algorithms and models to enhance recommendation system to improve discovery experience of users
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and product stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, and implement features that improve user engagement
- Conduct data analysis and experimentation with large-scale data sets to identify patterns, trends, and insights that drive the refinement of recommendation algorithms
- Utilize machine learning frameworks and libraries to deploy scalable and efficient recommendation solutions.
- Monitor system performance and conduct A/B testing to evaluate the effectiveness of features.
- Continuously research and stay updated on advancements in AI/machine learning techniques and recommend innovative approaches to enhance recommendation capabilities.
Minimum Requirements:
- Over 5-9 years of professional experience in end-to-end development of large-scale ML systems in production
- Strong experience demonstrating development and delivery of end-to-end machine learning solutions starting from experimentation to deploying models, including backend engineering and MLOps, in large scale production systems.
- Experience using common machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas)
- Deep understanding of machine learning and software engineering fundamentals
- Basic knowledge and skills related to monitoring system, logging, and common operations in production environment
- Communication skills to carry out projects in collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders
Preferred skills:
- Experience developing Recommender systems utilizing large-scale data sets
- Basic knowledge of enterprise search systems and related stacks (e.g. ELK)
- Functional development and bug fixing skills necessary to improve system performance and reliability
- Experience with technology such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
- Microservice development and operation experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Utilizing deep learning models/LLMs in production
- Experience in publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Employment Status
Full-time
Office
Bangalore
Hybrid workstyle
- We believe in high performance and professionalism. We work from office for 2 days/week and work from home 3 days/week
- To build a strong & highly-engaged organization in India, we highly encourage everyone to work from our Bangalore office, especially during the initial office setup phase
- We will continue to review and update the policy to address future organizational needs
Work Hours
- Full flextime (no core time)
*Flexible to choose working hours other than team common meetings
Media
Owned Media
- Mercari Engineering Portal
- AI at Mercari portal
- Mercan - Introduces the people that make Mercari
- Mercari US Blog
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About Mercari, Inc
About
Launched in 2013 and becoming the first Unicorn company in Japan, Mercari Group is a Japan-based corporate group operating in both Japan and the US. Our mission is to create value in a global marketplace where everyone can buy and sell.
Mercari is the largest marketplace platform with over 20 million monthly users in Japan. Through the Mercari app, users can sell their used or unwanted items to those who need them just by taking a photo and entering in some basic information. We are constantly developing our app to provide an environment where anyone can conduct transactions easily, safely, and securely. As part of these efforts, we have invested in the latest technologies such as AI and machine learning, and have released various functions such as escrow payment, AI listing, and barcode listing.
The app currently operates in Japan and the US, with 5.6 million monthly users in the US (as of 2022.3).
We have also successfully launched new businesses such as our mobile payment service Merpay. Today, Mercari Group is made up of multiple subsidiary businesses, including those involved in logistics, B2C e-commerce, blockchain, and sports team management.
Mercari India located in Bengaluru will harness the infinite power of technology to create high-quality service where our people come together to build products that will further strengthen our leadership position in a global product market.
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About NonStop io Technologies
NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment.
Brief Description:
We're seeking an AI/ML Engineer to join our team. As AI/ML Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions to solve real-world business problems. You will work closely with engineering teams, including software engineers, domain experts, and product managers, to deploy and integrate Applied AI/ML solutions into the products that are being built at NonStop io. Your role will involve researching cutting-edge algorithms and data processing techniques, and implementing scalable solutions to drive innovation and improve the overall user experience.
Responsibilities
● Applied AI/ML engineering; Building engineering solutions on top of the AI/ML tooling available in the industry today. Eg: Engineering APIs around OpenAI
● AI/ML Model Development: Design, develop, and implement machine learning models and algorithms that address specific business challenges, such as natural language processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, anomaly detection, etc.
● Data Preprocessing and Feature Engineering: Cleanse, preprocess, and transform raw data into suitable formats for training and testing AI/ML models. Perform feature engineering to extract relevant features from the data
● Model Training and Evaluation: Train and validate AI/ML models using diverse datasets to achieve optimal performance. Employ appropriate evaluation metrics to assess model accuracy, precision, recall, and other relevant metrics
● Data Visualization: Create clear and insightful data visualizations to aid in understanding data patterns, model behaviour, and performance metrics
● Deployment and Integration: Collaborate with software engineers and DevOps teams to deploy AI/ML models into production environments and integrate them into various applications and systems
● Data Security and Privacy: Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and implement security measures to protect sensitive information used in AI/ML processes
● Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI/ML research, tools, and technologies, and apply them to improve existing models and develop novel solutions
● Documentation: Maintain detailed documentation of the AI/ML development process, including code, models, algorithms, and methodologies for easy understanding and future reference.
Qualifications & Skills
● Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in AI/ML are a plus
● Proven experience as an AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, or related role, ideally with a strong portfolio of AI/ML projects
● Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for AI/ML. Preferably Python
● Familiarity with popular AI/ML libraries and frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc.
● Familiarity with popular AI/ML Models such as GPT3, GPT4, Llama2, BERT etc.
● Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, statistics, and data structures
● Experience with data preprocessing, data wrangling, and feature engineering
● Knowledge of deep learning architectures, neural networks, and transfer learning
● Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for scalable AI/ML deployment
● Solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices for writing maintainable and scalable code
● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and propose innovative solutions
● Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
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Must of Skills/Experience
• System Design
• Python
• TensorFlow
• Google ADK or Lang Graph
• Lang Chain , Lang Graph
• Spark
• Agentic AI Design
• ML Ops
• MCP (client and server)
• FastAPI
• Doc Factory
• RAG
• Golang
• LLMs – Gemini, Open AI
• NLP
• Dev Assistant - AI based code - generation
(Qwen or Claude or Copilot)
• CI/CD
• Good in oral and written communication,
collaboration and be a team player
Good to have skills
• DevOps with K8
• Scripting
• Java
• REST API
• UV
• ReACT
• DocFactory
• Unix
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Are you looking to work in the cutting edge area of applying data-science to help global customers get a better insight into their health? If so, read on and apply.
Role Name: Senior Data Scientist
Science Team | Full-Time | In-Office | Bangalore
The Role
The Ultrahuman Science Team builds the algorithms behind the Ring, M1 CGM, blood and urine biomarkers, and Performance Lab assessments. We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist to own those algorithms end to end: from the raw sensor signal to a model that is shipped, monitored, and trusted in users' hands.
This is a build role with real scope. In a typical month you will improve a production algorithm, root-cause a metric users are complaining about, and stand up the data pipeline the next model needs. The common thread is ownership: you take a vague question and return a working answer, without waiting to be handed scope.
What You'll Do
· Own algorithms end to end: sleep staging, activity detection, sensor-derived metrics, and health scores. You frame the problem, build the features, train and evaluate the model, and see it live
· Ship models, not notebooks: you prove a change on our own cohort before it reaches users, and a model is done only when it runs in production and you can tell how it is behaving
· Validate against reference standards: design evaluations against gold standards, reference devices, and study ground truth, and know when a result is real and when it is an artifact
· Own the data layer: cohort extraction, feature pipelines, study data, and raw sensor data, so the next model starts from clean inputs
What This Looks Like in Practice
1. Improving production algorithms - Take an existing production model like sleep staging, root-cause the failure modes against reference data, and ship a fix you can defend with numbers.
2. Building new models - Train an activity classifier on raw sensor data, design the labeled data collection that expands it, and pick the operating point so false positives never erode trust.
3. Proving it before it ships - Run a new steps algorithm against reference-device cohorts, decide with data when it is ready, and monitor how it behaves after rollout.
Who You Are
The two things we can't coach
· High ownership, end to end: you take a problem from a vague question to a shipped model without waiting to be handed scope, and you can point to something you owned from raw data all the way to production
· Hungry for more scope: you have outgrown your current role and want problems biggerthan your title, with the technical depth to be trusted with them
Also important
· You've worked with human health data: wearables, physiological signals, or clinical data.
If your experience is close but not exact, show us why you will ramp fast
· You've built at a startup: or somewhere small enough that nobody handed you clean data, clear specs, or a mature ML platform
· You work like it's 2026: coding agents and AI tooling are part of how you build every day, and you can tell which new capabilities are worth adopting
· You communicate: you can explain a model and its limits to a product manager, an engineer, or a founder, and hold your own with our scientists Core Technical Skills
· Languages and data: Python and SQL daily, comfortable working in a real codebase
· Machine learning: PyTorch or TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and gradient boosting, with the judgment to know which the problem needs
· Advanced machine learning: time series and sequence models, deep learning on continuous physiological signals, and ensembles
· Statistics and evaluation: hypothesis testing, experiment and A/B design, model evaluation, and error analysis against a reference standard
· Scale and cloud: Spark or equivalent on large datasets, and AWS, GCP, or Azure
· Production ML and MLOps: training pipelines, model versioning, deployment, monitoring, and drift detection
· LLMs and agentic systems: fine-tuning and serving models, building agentic pipelines, and using coding agents to move faster
Experience:
- 4 to 5 years building and shipping machine learning systems. We index on what you have shipped and on trajectory, not the exact number of years; if you are a little earlier but have clearly outgrown your current scope, we want to hear from you.
- Bachelor's or higher in engineering, computer science, statistics, or a related field.
How We Work and Who Thrives Here
- The Science team is small and moves fast, and much of the work has no precedent to copy.
- People do their best work here when they are energized by ambiguity, low on ego, quick to adopt a better idea no matter where it comes from, and comfortable owning something before anyone has told them how. If you need a mature data org, clean labelled datasets, and clear guardrails to thrive, this particular role will not be the right fit, and that is worth knowing up front.
What You'll Gain
· Ownership of algorithms that hundreds of thousands of people see every morning
· A dataset most scientists never get to touch: 100M+ nights of sleep and continuous physiological signals at scale
· Direct collaboration with the engineering, product, and design teams building Ultrahuman
Example Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize model serving infrastructure with a focus on inference latency and cost optimization
- Architect efficient inference pipelines that balance latency, throughput, and cost across various acceleration options
- Develop monitoring and observability solutions for ML systems
- Collaborate with ML Engineers to establish best practices for optimized model deployment
- Implement cost-efficient, enterprise-scale solutions
- Collaborate in a cross-functional, distributed team for continuous system improvement
- Work with MLEs, QA Engineers, and DevOps Engineers
- Evaluate and implement new technologies and tools
- Contribute to architectural decisions for distributed ML systems
Experience and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with Python
- Experience with ML frameworks, particularly PyTorch
- Experience optimizing ML models with hardware acceleration (AWS Neuron , ONNX, TensorRT)
- Experience with AWS ML services and hardware-accelerated instances (Sagemaker, Inferentia,Trainium)
- Proven experience building and operating AWS serverless architectures
- Deep understanding of event-driven processing patterns, SQS/SNS and serverless caching solutions
- Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration tools
- Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation
- Proficiency in writing good quality & secure code and be familiar with static code analysis tools
- Excellent analytical, conceptual and communication skills in spoken and written English
- Experience applying Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Great to have Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience with any of the following: model compilation and quantization, performance profiling and benchmarking ML inference systems
- Experience working in regulated industries with strict compliance requirements for cloud-native solutions
Key Responsibilities
• Design, build, and deploy machine learning and AI models that power Transient.AI's core products (research
automation, document intelligence, investor matching, and workflow orchestration).
• Work on applied NLP/LLM systems, including retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction from
unstructured financial documents, and model evaluation pipelines.
• Partner closely with product and founding engineers to translate capital markets workflows into scalable AI
systems.
• Own model performance, reliability, and cost — from experimentation through production deployment.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, feature stores, and evaluation frameworks to support rapid iteration.
• Ensure systems meet the compliance, auditability, and security standards required in regulated financial
environments.
What We're Looking For
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning or AI systems in production.• Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern ML/AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face,
LangChain, or equivalent).
• Experience with LLMs — fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or agentic systems — is highly
valued.
• Solid grounding in data structures, distributed systems, and MLOps practices (model serving, monitoring,
versioning).
• Prior experience at a strong product company, high-growth startup, or a top-tier engineering background
• Comfort operating in an early-stage, high-ownership environment with limited process and high ambiguity.
• Exposure to fintech, capital markets, or other regulated industries is a plus, though not mandatory





