8 months ago
Menlo Park, CA, USA +2 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
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
Apache BeamApache FlinkApache SparkAWSC++GoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonPyTorchSQLTensorFlow
Categories
About MOLOCO
Moloco builds AI-driven advertising and commerce media software for mobile app marketers, retailers/marketplaces, and streaming services. Its products include Moloco Ads (a performance-focused DSP) and platforms that let retailers and streamers run their own ad businesses, with revenue from ad spend and platform fees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, it is privately held with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.