Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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• Personalized recommendations, search, and ranking systems that help users discover the most relevant content and communities
• Intelligent advertising systems including ranking, bidding, measurement, and optimization
• Content, Advertisers, and User understanding, from building foundational content/user representations to deriving insightful signals
• Large-scale machine learning pipelines, model serving infrastructure, and real-time decision systems
• Applied AI and LLM-driven experiences that improve relevance, discovery, and user engagement
• Design, build, and deploy production-grade machine learning models and systems at scale
• Own the full ML lifecycle: from problem definition and feature engineering to training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Build scalable data and model pipelines with strong reliability, observability, and automated retraining
• Work with large-scale datasets to improve ranking, recommendations, search relevance, prediction, content/user understanding, and optimization systems.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to translate complex problems into ML solutions
• Improve system performance across latency, throughput, and model quality metrics
• Research and apply state-of-the-art machine learning and AI techniques, including deep learning, graph & transformers based, and LLM evaluation/alignment
• Contribute to technical strategy, architecture, and long-term ML roadmap
• 3-5+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning systems in production
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar languages, with solid software engineering fundamentals
• ML Fundamentals: a strong grasp of algorithms, from classic statistical learning (XGBoost, Random Forests, regressions) to DL architectures (Transformers, CNNs, GNNs)
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Experience designing scalable ML pipelines, data processing systems, and model serving infrastructure
• Ability to work cross-functionally and translate ambiguous product or business problems into technical solutions
• Experience improving measurable metrics through applied machine learning
• Experience with recommender systems, search/ranking systems, advertising/auction systems, large-scale representation learning, or multimodal embedding systems
• Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing (Spark, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, BigQuery, Redis, etc.)
• Experience working with real-time systems and low-latency production environments
• Background in feature engineering, model optimization, and production monitoring
• Experience with LLM/Gen AI techniques, including but not limited to LLM evaluation, alignment, fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, RAG/agentic systems and productionizing LLM-powered products at scale
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related quantitative field
• Ads Measurement Modeling
• Ads Targeting and Retrieval
• Advertiser Optimization
• Ads Marketplace Quality
• Ads Creative Effectiveness
• Ads Foundational Representations
• Ads Content Understanding
• Ads Ranking
• Feed Relevance
• Search and Answers Relevance
• ML Understanding
• Notifications Relevance
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave