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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Signal & Ads
$185K–$235K
Bellevue, Washington, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Builds production data and machine-learning systems that turn user signals into features and model outputs for advertising targeting, bidding, and ranking.
What you'll do
- Build and own offline and online batch and streaming feature pipelines for user signals.
- Develop user-understanding models, especially identity prediction, and integrate their outputs into ads models.
- Own model lifecycle and online serving, including evaluation, deployment, monitoring, iteration, and measurable business impact.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years of industry experience building and shipping ML models in production.
- Strong foundation in feature engineering, supervised learning, embeddings/representation learning, and offline and online evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python and a solid ML stack; hands-on large-scale data processing and production feature or training-data pipelines.
Nice to have
- Direct Ads, recommendation, search, or growth ML experience, especially targeting, bidding, ranking, or identity prediction.
- Experience with user-signal data, online feature serving, streaming systems, distributed model training, or MLOps tooling.
Pay
$185,000 — $235,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, pandas/NumPy, Spark, Flink, SQL/Presto/Trino
AI focus
Develop identity-prediction and other user-understanding models, embeddings, and signals; apply model outputs to ads targeting, bidding, and ranking.
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