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Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Optimization & Ads Marketplace Quality
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Resumo da vaga
Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Optimization & Ads Marketplace Quality
Requisitos e responsabilidades
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Team Description
- Designing the auction and bidding mechanisms that decide which ads show to which users and at what price.
- Building optimization systems that help advertisers achieve their goals (e.g., conversions, ROAS) under budget and delivery constraints.
- Ensuring marketplace quality by improving user experience with ads, fighting ad blindness, and increasing valuable ad opportunities on the platform.
Role Description
- Design and implement optimization algorithms for auctions, bidding strategies, and pacing that balance advertiser performance, user experience, and marketplace efficiency.
- Own systems end-to-end: from problem formulation and algorithm design to experimentation, production deployment, and ongoing iteration.
- Work across Ads Optimization (bid strategies, budget optimization, pacing) or Ads Marketplace Quality (ad matching, ad load, quality controls) to deliver measurable wins for advertisers and Redditors.
Role Description
- IC3 MLEs are strong individual contributors who can independently own scoped projects, ship models and services, and contribute to experimentation and measurement.
- IC4 MLEs lead more complex or multi-quarter initiatives, set technical direction for key parts of the bidding/auction/pacing stack, and mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on.
Auction, Bidding, and Pacing Systems
- Design and implement models and policies that:
- Compute bids for different optimization objectives (e.g., CPC, CPA, ROAS-based strategies).
- Pace budgets smoothly over time across accounts, campaigns, and ad groups while preventing overspend or underspend.
- Allocate spend and auction participation intelligently across segments, surfaces, and time zones.
- Translate product and marketplace goals into concrete optimization problems and constraints (e.g., ROI, revenue, delivery smoothness, fairness, and user experience).
Details
- Compute bids for different optimization objectives (e.g., CPC, CPA, ROAS-based strategies).
- Pace budgets smoothly over time across accounts, campaigns, and ad groups while preventing overspend or underspend.
- Allocate spend and auction participation intelligently across segments, surfaces, and time zones.
- Improve ad matching and ranking by incorporating new quality and relevance signals into bidding and auction decisions.
- Inform policies around ad load and eligibility that protect user experience while increasing high-quality ad opportunities.
- Degree or equivalent background in a quantitative field (math, physics, quantitative finance, economics, operations research, or similar).
- Work experience in optimization-heavy domains (e.g., bidding/auctions, pacing, pricing, logistics optimization, quantitative finance).
- Bidding, pacing, or budget optimization
- Auction design, mechanism design, or marketplace quality
- Campaign performance optimization (e.g., CTR/CVR, CPA, ROAS)
Marketplace Quality and Optimization
- Partner with Ads Marketplace Quality to:
- Improve ad matching and ranking by incorporating new quality and relevance signals into bidding and auction decisions.
- Inform policies around ad load and eligibility that protect user experience while increasing high-quality ad opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with Ads Optimization to integrate new bid strategies and pacing mechanisms into the broader ads ecosystem and measurement stack.
Required Qualifications
- 3–5+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning systems in production (for IC4, typically 5+ years).
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar languages, with solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience designing scalable data processing systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Airflow, BigQuery, Redis).
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous product or business problems into solutions and to improve measurable metrics.
Required Qualifications
- Evidence of stronger math and optimization skills than a generic MLE, such as:
- Degree or equivalent background in a quantitative field (math, physics, quantitative finance, economics, operations research, or similar).
- Work experience in optimization-heavy domains (e.g., bidding/auctions, pacing, pricing, logistics optimization, quantitative finance).
- Comfort reasoning about and implementing custom optimization logic (e.g., gradient-based methods, constraint handling), not just applying black-box tooling.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with advertising/auction systems, online marketplaces, or search/ranking systems at scale, particularly in:
- Bidding, pacing, or budget optimization
- Auction design, mechanism design, or marketplace quality
- Campaign performance optimization (e.g., CTR/CVR, CPA, ROAS)
- Familiarity with large-scale, real-time decision systems and low-latency production environments.
- Background in feature engineering, model optimization, and production monitoring for ML systems.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners (Product, DS, Eng) in Ads or marketplace contexts and leading projects from design through rollout.
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Applied Math, or a related quantitative field.
Potential Teams
- Ads Optimization (bid strategies, conversion/ROAS optimization, pacing and budget allocation)
- Ads Marketplace Quality (ad matching, load, and quality controls)
Potential Teams
- 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
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