Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead

About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. 

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco: 

We seek an exceptional machine learning engineer(tech lead) to join Moloco’s Machine Learning team working on our Moloco Ads, Commerce Media, and Streaming Monetization platform to leverage the same state-of-the-art technology stack that Moloco uses to drive our ML-powered performance ads business. Moloco's programmatic advertising engine is powered by custom deep neural network models that handle 1M+ QPS at 7 ms prediction latencies. 

Moloco is an engineering company founded by software engineers, and machine learning is the core of Moloco's engineering systems. We understand the value of a strong engineering team and strive to hire only the best software engineers, as seen here (https://www.linkedin.com/company/moloco/people/). Check out our case study published by Google: https://cloud.google.com/customers/moloco/

The Opportunity: 

• Build, grow, and lead a machine learning team across the Moloco platform technology stack.
• Design state-of-the-art machine learning models using Tensorflow for real-world, large-scale problems.
• Construct and maintain data pipelines for model training and serving using Google Cloud products such as Apache Beam/Dataflow, BigQuery, and BigTable.
• Develop highly scalable model servers on cloud platforms.
• Work with product, account, and infrastructure engineering teams to define future product roadmaps.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me? 

• MS or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 7+ years of software development experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning related areas.
• Exceptional level of communication, coordination, Machine Learning development, and development-team management skills.
• Experience mentoring and leading Senior, Mid, and Junior MLEs.
• Fluent in one or more programming languages, including Python, Java, and Golang.
• Knowledgeable with production-level machine learning applications, including Natural Language Processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, and ranking systems.
• Experience in building a highly scalable model or online service system.
• Fluent in speaking and writing English.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Relevant experience in AdTech

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here. 

Moloco Values

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

• Moloco Company Blog 
• Moloco Leadership
• Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression, and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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