Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Moloco
Full-time
Redwood City, California, United States
$232,000 - $348,000
Posted on 2 months ago

Job Description

Moloco is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their core ML team. This individual contributor role focuses on building and deploying large-scale ML systems for recommendation, prediction, ranking, and optimization, impacting hundreds of millions of users. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise and values system design and measurable impact.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy ML systems for recommendation, prediction, ranking, and optimization
  • Build and operate models and infrastructure supporting hundreds of millions of requests per day
  • Apply systematic approaches to model training, evaluation, and inference
  • Collaborate with MLI team to define system requirements and improve tooling
  • Lead or contribute to architectural design and standardization of ML practices
  • Mentor and support engineers across ML teams
  • Evolve the ML interview process

Requirements

  • Extensive experience building and operating ML systems in high-scale environments
  • Demonstrated impact from ML systems improving product performance or business metrics
  • Expertise in recommender systems, ranking models, predictive modeling, or ML optimization
  • Strong coding and system design skills with CS fundamentals
  • Proficiency with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, Keras, JAX)
  • Experience optimizing models for hardware accelerators
  • Hands-on experience with distributed infrastructure
  • Familiarity with ML production best practices

Benefits

  • No benefits