Expression of Interest: Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer

Menlo Park, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

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 you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

We know that for the most talented engineers, the right opportunity is about more than just a job title, it's about the right challenge at the right time. Even if our current openings don't perfectly fit your timing and interests today, we still want to hear from you. We view this as a priority pathway to connect with curious, driven MLEs whose unique expertise can help us architect the next generation of planet-scale ML systems.

At Moloco, our mission is to empower the global digital economy by turning massive first-party data into measurable business outcomes. Whether it's optimizing real-time bidding for Moloco Ads or building AI-native stacks for Streaming and Commerce, we're looking for engineers to help us lead the shift toward a more performance-driven, AI-powered internet.

If you're excited to scale and innovate in a fast-moving environment, share your profile and we will reach out the moment we see a potential match for your experiences and future goals.

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.

The Opportunity

• 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.
• Enhance system reliability by refining feature stores, monitoring data quality, and establishing robust debugging practices.
• Drive platform evolution, contributing to ML tools and guidelines that increase experimentation velocity and deployment speed.
• Optimize for performance, partnering with Infra teams to reduce latency and improve throughput for low-cost, high-scale decisioning.
• Elevate technical excellence by sharing best practices in modeling and production ML with the broader engineering team.

Expertise We Value

MLEs at Moloco are hands-on builders of some of the world's highest-scale ML workloads. They bridge technical innovation with global revenue outcomes, owning the critical systems that define our next generation of machine learning and optimization platforms.

While every journey is unique, we find that the most successful MLEs at Moloco bring a deep technical foundation in the following areas:

• Production ML at Scale: 5-12+ years of experience delivering ML solutions in high-stakes production environments (e.g., Ads, Recommenders, Search, or Marketplaces), with a track record of scaling models for massive throughput and low-latency requirements.
• Algorithmic Mastery: A strong foundation in ML and statistics applied to real-world business challenges, with expertise in areas such as ranking, calibration, exploration-exploitation, causal inference, or multi-objective optimization.
• Full-Lifecycle Engineering: Deep understanding of the end-to-end ML lifecycle, including data pipelining, feature engineering, model architecture, inference optimization, and the deployment of models into online systems.
• Technical Versatility: Proficiency across a modern ML toolkit (Python, SQL, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch) and experience leveraging data processing stacks like Spark, Beam, or Flink to deliver results at scale.
• Operational Stewardship: Experience ensuring the long-term health of ML systems in live environments—monitoring performance, diagnosing drift, and iterating based on real-world feedback to maintain measurable impact.
• Technical Mentorship: A passion for advancing the team's collective bar by sharing best practices for large-scale ML systems and guiding the technical direction of complex machine learning initiatives.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: Python, Go, C++
• ML Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX
• Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Spark, BigQuery, BigTable

How You Work

• Your ethos is ownership
• You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy partnering with others to shape vague requirements into clear roadmaps with pragmatic tradeoffs.
• You take shared accountability for the end-to-end journey; communicating progress, surfacing risks early, and following through to ensure your work creates measurable value.
• You demonstrate strong judgment under uncertainty.
• You prioritize based on long-term impact, over short-term noise, making deliberate decisions when information is incomplete.
• You explicitly weigh tradeoffs like speed vs. quality and remain agile enough to adjust your approach thoughtfully as new information/data emerges.
• You lead through clarity and active listening.
• You reduce ambiguity for the team by asking the right questions upfront, tailor your communication to your audience, document your decisions, and bring helpful structure to complex discussions.
• You provide thoughtful, evidence-based feedback when needed and align behind decisions once they are made.
• You collaborate early, instead of solving in isolation.
• You build trust across the organization by listening first and navigate conflicting needs with empathy, creating buy-in around priorities and scope.
• You navigate technical tensions productively, disagreeing thoughtfully while maintaining momentum and strengthening professional relationships.
• You fall in love with the problem, not the solution
• You build for the long run, looking beyond immediate tasks to understand root causes, second-order effects, and the long-term health of our ML ecosystem.
• When something breaks, you don't just patch it; you seek structural improvements that prevent recurrence and elevate the technical bar for the entire organization.
• You prioritize customer impact and take action to make it real.
• You prioritize effective solutions that drive business impact over technical elegance, spotting opportunities that others might overlook.
• You have the initiative to turn ideas into outcomes and the agency to identify and fix gaps, even when they aren't yet on the formal roadmap.