Base Salary
$198k - $420k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and iterate high-performance models for ad relevance, click-through rates, and conversion performance.
- Productionize and maintain scalable ML pipelines from data ingestion through online inference.
- Analyze user behavior and auction signals to create features and refine modeling strategies.
- Translate revenue, ROI, and engagement goals into modeling challenges and measurable success metrics with Product and Data Science.
- Run A/B tests, offline evaluations, and counterfactual analyses to validate model innovations.
- Implement models that balance advertiser value with user experience and marketplace health.
- Improve feature stores, data-quality monitoring, debugging practices, deployment speed, latency, and throughput.
- Share best practices and contribute to ML tools and guidelines across the engineering organization.
Requirements
- 5–12+ years of experience delivering machine learning solutions in high-stakes production environments such as advertising, recommenders, search, or marketplaces.
- Strong foundation in machine learning and statistics, including areas such as ranking, calibration, exploration-exploitation, causal inference, or multi-objective optimization.
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end ML lifecycle, including data pipelines, feature engineering, model architecture, inference optimization, and online deployment.
- Proficiency with Python, SQL, and ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, plus experience with Spark, Beam, or Flink.
- Experience monitoring production ML systems, diagnosing drift, maintaining data quality, and iterating based on real-world feedback.
- Ability to provide technical mentorship and guide the direction of complex large-scale machine learning initiatives.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- Moloco Thrive benefits and well-being support for employees and their families
- Inclusive workplace focused on belonging and employee growth
Tech Stack
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About MOLOCO
Moloco’s mission is to be the scaling engine for the internet economy, applying AI to help businesses of all sizes grow. With Moloco’s artificial intelligence platform for growth and performance, every app publisher, commerce marketplace, and streaming business can now unlock the value of their unique, first-party data. Moloco Ads enables performance marketers to scale user acquisition for mobile apps through our advanced artificial intelligence. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build their own ads business with a flexible solution that delivers relevance, results, and automation for scaled and streamlined ad operations. Moloco Streaming Monetization enables streaming media companies to revolutionize their monetization strategy by building an outcomes-based ads business that delivers relevancy for users and results for advertisers. Moloco was founded in 2013 by a team of machine learning engineers and has offices throughout the US, the UK, Germany, Korea, China, India, Japan, and Singapore.