Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Playwire Media is a full-service digital innovation partner specializing in online advertising and proprietary technologies to elevate publishing brands. As we continue to experience rapid growth, we are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team and help build out and scale our next-gen website monetization platform. Reporting to the head of Data, this hands-on engineering role will focus on delivering a portfolio of predictive models and inferential decision assets powering our real time platform.

Essential Functions: (What you’ll do)

• Train, test, deploy, and maintain models that learn from data across hundreds of thousands of interactions per second to predict future behaviors in real time
• Provide SME guidance for Data and Engineering teams on ML software engineering principles, model deployments, and platform capabilities
• Process data and information at a massive scale, and perform A/B testing tasks on statistical models, ML algorithms, and deployed systems
• Design and execution of multivariate experiments, KPI rationalization, establish measurement protocols with and without controlled setup, arbitrate over statistical and business significance
• Build and Deploy capabilities for automating model scoring/Inferencing of ML models
• Communicate complex analytic findings and insights effectively to stakeholders at all levels
• Improve modeling infrastructures, labels, features and algorithms towards robustness, automation and generalization, reduce modeling and operational load
• Develop and implement advanced ML models, such as gradient boosted decision tree, graph neural networks, deep and reinforcement learning models, to solve critical business problems

Requirements: (Qualifications)

• 5+ years related experience with developing machine learning models and conducting statistical analysis
• 2+ years experience & proficiency with ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, SparkML, TensorFlow, PyTorch, pandas, etc.
• 2+ years experience with forecasting models such as Prophet, ARIMA, and mSSa
• Strong foundation in Machine Learning, with a proven track record of developing and deploying ML models at scale
• Strong background in data processing and can demonstrate strong data intuition and end-to-end ownership of our systems - from data collection, feature selection, and processing to running ML systems in production
• Ability to draw insights and conclusions from data to inform model development and business decisions

Nice to have: (Bonus)

• MS or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Physics or related quantitative field (e.g. Econometrics, Mathematics)
• Ad-Tech experience
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, IaC
• Experience AWS infrastructure
• Experience with Snowflake database technology
• Professional experience as a software engineer

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.