Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Core Ads Ranking

Reddit

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$230,000–$322,000 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role pays more than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $208,556–$270,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $276k versus about $240k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Core Ads Ranking

The Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Core Ads Ranking leads a team focused on advancing user representation, graph learning, and sequence modeling across ads verticals. In this role, you will define the technical vision and roadmap for foundational models and user understanding while overseeing the full model development lifecycle from ideation to deployment. You will collaborate with horizontal signal, infrastructure, and vertical customer teams to align on priorities and constraints. Key responsibilities include mentoring a high-performing team and driving technical execution for robust pipelines. Required expertise includes building and scaling large-scale models using TensorFlow or PyTorch. The work involves solving complex problems in knowledge distillation, model calibration, and heuristic improvement to improve ads performance and deep user understanding within the platform.

What you'll do

  • Define and execute a technical roadmap for foundational models and user understanding.
  • Oversee the full model development lifecycle from initial ideation to production deployment.
  • Ensure high standards of machine learning performance, reliability, and robustness across all models.
  • Recruit, mentor, and retain top machine learning talent within the organization.
  • Foster a team culture centered on growth, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Align with vertical and horizontal teams on strategy, priorities, and technical constraints.
  • Lead initiatives in knowledge distillation, model calibration, and heuristic improvement.

What we're looking for

  • 1+ years of management experience leading ML-focused teams.
  • 6+ years of experience building and scaling machine learning models.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • Proven ability in training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale models across the end-to-end ML lifecycle.
  • Experience working with foundational models, user understanding, or content understanding.
  • Experience with Ads (preferred).

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