You will combine deep machine learning expertise, solid engineering execution, and business intuition to modernize our prediction stack, drive model innovation, and mentor a growing team of scientists and engineers. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, high-scale systems, who brings thought leadership to ML strategy, and who raises the bar for engineering rigor, curiosity, and business-driven decision making across the team.

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Responsibilities:

ML / Modeling Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end development of large-scale CTR and other user response signal models for Search and Display ads.

• Design, prototype, and ship cutting-edge ML architectures (deep models, multi-task, transformer-based, LLM-assisted, multimodal).

• Define long-term modeling strategy and roadmap with clear business impact.

Technical & Engineering Execution

• Modernize our current modeling pipelines, addressing critical technical debt in data flows, training pipelines, and inference systems.

• Partner closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, monitoring, and performance of distributed training and online serving.

• Introduce best practices for experiment design, ablations, feature validation, and productionization.

Business & Product Impact

• Work with PMs, monetization teams, and auction experts to translate business needs into modeling goals.

• Own model performance holistically: quality, stability, latency, and revenue impact.

• Develop frameworks to better understand advertiser value, user behavior, and marketplace dynamics.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor and up-level applied scientists and ML engineers across the organization.

• Drive a culture of curiosity, deep system understanding, and high-quality scientific reasoning.

• Improve collaboration norms, documentation quality, and cross-team alignment.

Innovation & Tooling

• Leverage and influence LLM-based tooling (e.g., agents, copilots) to improve team productivity and model development velocity.

• Identify opportunities to incorporate new modeling signals, architectures, or evaluation metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

• Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

• Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

• Equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

• Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

• Equivalent experience.

• 5+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).

• 2+ years experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.

• 5+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).

• 3+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.

• 3+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.

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