Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create sophisticated ML models and autonomous workflows that enable teams to design, train, assess, and enhance them.

• Leverage Claude, Cursor, and similar AI-driven development tools to explore model performance, formulate and evaluate hypotheses, automate repetitive analyses, and refine code and experiments.

• Establish dependable processes for data and label examination, feature and embedding creation, architecture comparison, hyperparameter tuning, error analysis, and experiment reporting.

• Develop evaluation frameworks that assess model results and workflow quality, encompassing correctness, reproducibility, regressions, cost, and latency.

• Collaborate with product, data science, ML infrastructure, and engineering teams to align modeling enhancements with user and business outcomes.

• Define technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, and elevate standards for modeling excellence and AI-assisted engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 9 years of experience in ML engineering, applied ML, or a related discipline, with significant production impact.

• Senior Staff-level technical leadership with a proven track record of influencing team direction.

• In-depth modeling knowledge and strong foundational skills in data, objectives, architectures, optimization, evaluation, and experimentation.

• Specific instances of employing agentic AI or AI coding tools to achieve superior ML results—not merely faster code generation.

• Capability to design safeguards and evaluations that ensure the trustworthiness of autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows.

• Proficient coding skills in Python and adeptness with contemporary ML frameworks and data tools.

• Clear and concise communication skills, along with a collaborative, low-ego approach to technical leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote position.

• Competitive salary and equity options.

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Workplace perks, such as a stipend for home office setup.

• Generous 401(k) matching.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Paid parental leave of over 4 months.

• Family planning assistance.

• Paid volunteer time off.

• Option to opt-out of interview recording, transcription, and summarization.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.