Prodege
Principal ML Engineer
Remote USA · Principal · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$300k-$375kDetected 12 days ago
AlgorithmsCode ReviewKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceMLOpsA/B TestingPerformance MarketingResearchLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- Your work will directly influence revenue, margin, user value, and marketplace efficiency in a fast-moving AdTech / MarTech environment.
- This is a deeply hands-on principal role.
- Employees receive flexible PTO, as well as paid sick leave prorated based on hire date.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, build, and evolution of production ML algorithms and systems that drive real business outcomes
- Personally drive critical implementations, proving out new approaches in production before scaling them across the team
- Build and evolve solutions across:
- Establish robust experimentation and measurement frameworks, including offline evaluation, A/B testing, KPI design, and post-launch validation
- Partner closely with Data Engineering, BI, Product, Engineering, and business teams to create reliable data foundations and connect ML work to business priorities
- Drive an AI-first mindset by using AI to accelerate research, prototyping, feature engineering, experiment analysis, debugging, documentation, and developer productivity
- 5+ years building, deploying, and supporting production ML systems at scale
- A/B testing and measurement design
Requirements
- Strong experience in AdTech, MarTech, Growth, Performance Marketing, or adjacent domains
- Ability to guide teams toward an AI-first way of working, while maintaining strong validation and engineering discipline
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring capability, with the ability to influence across teams without direct authority
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and still driving systems into production
- Strong understanding of:
Nice to have
- Experience with counterfactual reasoning, causal inference, or uplift modeling
- Experience in rewards, offer ecosystems, customer value optimization, or monetization platforms
- Experience with streaming or near-real-time decisioning systems
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted / AI-first development practices across engineering and data science teams
Skills
- The architecture and delivery of offline / online ML systems, feature pipelines, inference patterns, feedback loops, and monitoring
- End-to-end ML systems spanning feature generation, training, inference, experimentation, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Production ML algorithms and decisioning systems across ranking, rewards, ROAS / LTV, personalization, and offer optimization
- Experimentation frameworks that connect model performance to business outcomes
- Production-grade standards across MLOps, observability, retraining, governance, and reliability
- Hands-on technical leadership for the ML team through direct contribution, code reviews, and mentoring
- The evolution of ML toward a more AI-first way of working
- ranking and recommendation
- rewards optimization
- ROAS / LTV prediction
- campaign and offer optimization
- experimentation and decisioning systems
Compensation
- The anticipated base salary range for this position is $300,000 to $375,000.
- The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include, but are not limited to; the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, the type and length of knowledge and skills for the position, education, training, etc.
- Prodege is a multi-state employer and final compensation within this range could be impacted by work location.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Benefits
- Prodege offers a comprehensive benefits package to US Full-time employees including medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD and basic life insurance.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Company info
- At Prodege, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equal opportunity
- We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.
- Employers will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of FCIHO.
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