Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth
LaddersAbout the role
For our client, we are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth to join the team of a leader in the Information Technology space.
This role will focus on building and scaling the machine learning systems that support advertiser growth, spend optimization, and campaign performance. You will partner closely with engineering and data stakeholders to improve budget pacing, experimentation, and billing accuracy across high-throughput backend workflows. The work will also include enabling Generative AI-driven media asset creation within the company's advertising ecosystem.
Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available
Compensation: $210,300 – $273,400 annually
Responsibilities
Design next-generation budget pacing systems to optimize advertiser spend
Lead integration of Generative AI models for creating campaign-specific media assets
Build infrastructure for high-velocity marketplace experimentation and testing
Ensure accuracy of high-throughput billing pipelines processing billions of events
Analyze financial datasets to optimize spend and advertiser performance
Qualifications
Advanced degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or equivalent experience
6+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years on ads delivery systems
Proficiency in building large-scale, low-latency backend systems using Java, Go, or Scala
Experience with budget control systems and spend-prediction algorithms
Expertise in scaling experimentation platforms with knowledge of variance reduction and metric design
Proven track record in mission-critical pipelines with a focus on data precision and fault tolerance
Interest in backend workflows for Generative AI model serving
Benefits
Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
Commute subsidy
Employee stock ownership options
Competitive retirement and pension plans
Generous vacation and personal leave days
Support for new parents through leave and family care programs
Mental health and wellbeing programs and support
Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.
Responsibilities
- Design next-generation budget pacing systems to optimize advertiser spend
- Lead integration of Generative AI models for creating campaign-specific media assets
- Build infrastructure for high-velocity marketplace experimentation and testing
- Ensure accuracy of high-throughput billing pipelines processing billions of events
- Analyze financial datasets to optimize spend and advertiser performance
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years on ads delivery systems
- Proficiency in building large-scale, low-latency backend systems using Java, Go, or Scala
- Experience with budget control systems and spend-prediction algorithms
- Expertise in scaling experimentation platforms with knowledge of variance reduction and metric design
- Proven track record in mission-critical pipelines with a focus on data precision and fault tolerance
- Interest in backend workflows for Generative AI model serving
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Commute subsidy
- Employee stock ownership options
- Competitive retirement and pension plans
- Generous vacation and personal leave days
- Support for new parents through leave and family care programs
- Mental health and wellbeing programs and support
Skills mentioned
About Ladders
We lead the leaders. Ladder’s community of 10 mm leading professionals come to us to be inspired, grow in their careers, and get ahead in their professional lives. We focus on the $100K+ job market, representing 25% of all jobs and about 50% of income in the US & Canada. We build data-driven tools, marketplaces, news and entertainment products for our growing audience, and the companies, recruiters, and advertisers that want to reach them. We work best with people who enjoy using their talents, commitment and hard work to achieve great successes for millions of real life users through products that impact their careers. We are deeply technology-driven -- about half the company are engineers, technical product people or product designers -- but we never build technology for technology’s sake. We’re always trying to connect our efforts to the good it can do in people’s lives.
H-1B sponsorship history
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