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Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Ads)

San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$275kDetected 3 days ago
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPA/B TestingProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearch

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PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • Our tech stack includes Python, ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, large-scale data infrastructure, and real-time ad-serving technologies.
  • Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
  • Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Responsibilities

  • Develop sophisticated ML solutions such as identity graph to enhance ad targeting.
  • Build and optimize ad ranking models to serve the most effective ads based on campaign objectives (e.g., app installs, link click).
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams to define and execute on the Ads ML roadmap.
  • Scale our ML infrastructure to support an increasing number of concurrent ad campaigns while ensuring low-latency decision-making.
  • Drive research and implementation of state-of-the-art ML techniques in the field of online advertising.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience specifically in Ads ML (ads ranking, personalization, optimization, privacy-compliant user modeling, targeting, or measurement).
  • Proven track record of designing, implementing, and scaling ML-driven ad systems in real-world applications.
  • Experience working with real-time ML inference, A/B testing, and optimization frameworks.
  • Experience translating ML evaluation results and performance metrics into actionable product roadmap items.
  • Ability to connect business objectives to ML solutions, with the flexibility to shift focus toward the highest-impact problems as priorities evolve.

Skills

  • Strong understanding of performance advertising and how ML impacts revenue and advertiser retention.
  • Knowledge of ad tech industry standards and ads ecosystem including targeting, retrieval, ranking, pacing, frequency, auction, etc.
  • Experience with large-scale recommendation systems.
  • Experience with large-scale data infrastructure and distributed computing
  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,000 to $275,000 + equity + benefits.
  • Why Discord?
  • Your future is just a click away!

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,000 to $275,000 + equity + benefits.
  • Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
  • Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Benefits

  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for ads targeting and ranking.
  • 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Scientist.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience with applied deep learning (e.g transformers, embedding models).

Company info

  • Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
  • We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning to join our Revenue ML team at Discord.
  • We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
  • Join us in our mission!
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