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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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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)