QuinStreet
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ranking
United States · Senior
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About the role
- Powering Performance Marketplaces in Digital Media QuinStreet is a pioneer in powering decentralized online marketplaces that match searchers and "research and compare" consumers with brands.
- We run these virtual- and private-label marketplaces in one of the nation's largest media networks.
- They allow brands to target and reach in-market customer prospects with pinpoint segment-by-segment accuracy, and to pay only for performance results.
Responsibilities
- Design and improve ranking systems through rigorous measurement and experimentation
- translate broad goals into clear metrics and deliver steady, validated gains.
- Advance evaluation practices (clean test design, offline & online alignment) and help teams make evidence-based decisions.
- Build high-value signals and features with reliable offline/online pipelines and robust monitoring. Incorporate content understanding signals such as text/image/metadata.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Business and Analytics to ship resilient solutions end-to-end.
- Design and improve ranking systems through rigorous measurement and experimentation; translate broad goals into clear metrics and deliver steady, validated gains.
Requirements
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in CS, Statistics, or related field, with 3+ years post-PhD or 5+ years industry experience.
- Proficiency in Python and solid software engineering practices (testing, CI/CD).
- Experience working with large-scale datasets, distributed systems, and latency-sensitive production ML.
- Proficiency in SQL is desired.
- Knowledge about Linear Algebra, Combinatorial optimization is desired.
- Proficiency in scalable software design and development.
Nice to have
- Exposure to multimodal signals (text/image/metadata) is a plus, not required.
Skills
- The direct measurability of digital media.
- Performance marketing. (We pioneered it.)
- The advantages of technology.
Compensation
- The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 USD to $170,000 USD annually.
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