PubMatic

Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Optimization

Minnesota · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$260k-$330kDetected 28 days ago

PythonJavaAlgorithmsSQLMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchSparkMLOpsStatisticsA/B TestingForecastingLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

This role is focused on applying machine learning, prediction, ranking, calibration, experimentation, and optimization techniques to improve campaign outcomes across performance advertising goals such as CTR, VCR, CPC, CPA, and ROAS.

Develop models and algorithms that improve advertiser outcomes while balancing spend delivery, cost efficiency, campaign goals, marketplace dynamics, and system constraints.
Design and improve CTR, CVR, VCR, CPA, ROAS, app-install, user-value, and campaign-performance models.
Develop bidding, pacing-aware optimization, ranking, exploration, and value-estimation approaches for performance advertising.
Partner with performance advertising signal engineers to define model-ready features, labels, attribution windows, negative examples, training datasets, and online serving requirements.
Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and platform teams to translate model outputs into real-time decisioning systems.
Experience building large-scale prediction or optimization systems in production.

$260,000-$330,000 USD
In accordance with applicable law, the below salary range provided is PubMatic's reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role.
New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units, and a competitive benefits package.
Build and improve machine learning models for campaign optimization, prediction, ranking, bidding, forecasting, and calibration.
10+ years of experience building production machine learning, ranking, recommendation, prediction, optimization, ads, marketplace, bidding, or pricing systems.
Strong understanding of supervised learning, ranking, calibration, causal thinking, experimentation, statistical evaluation, and model monitoring.

PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don't just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it.
About PubMatic
PubMatic is one of the world's leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.

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