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Expression of Interest: Machine Learning Engineer

MOLOCO · Menlo Park, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

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About MOLOCO

Moloco’s AI advertising platform bids into a trillion auctions a day so apps and retailers can find, convert, and grow customers at global scale.

About the role

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Moloco, you will design, train, and deploy the large‑scale models that power our programmatic advertising and commerce media products. You will work at the heart of our real-time bidding and pricing systems, helping shape an end-to-end ML ecosystem that processes billions of daily events. Your work will directly improve marketplace performance for global advertisers and publishers by optimizing for relevance, ROI, and user experience at a scale few companies can match.

What they're looking for

  • Architect and iterate on high-performance models that improve ad relevance, click-through rates, and conversion performance
  • Productionize and maintain scalable ML pipelines - from data ingestion to online inference - on top of planet-scale infrastructure
  • Extract insights from massive datasets of user behavior and auction signals to define new features and refine modeling strategies
  • Translate business goals (revenue, ROI, engagement) into concrete modeling challenges and success metrics in collaboration with Product and Data Science
  • Validate innovation through rigorous experimentation, including A/B tests, offline evaluations, and counterfactual analyses
  • Balance marketplace health by implementing models that harmonize advertiser value with a high-quality user experience
More about this role

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which...

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