
Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Advertising Technology
Expedia Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $184,500 - $258,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Collaborate with Software Engineers and ML Engineers/Scientists to design and build large-scale batch and real-time ML systems for advertising use cases
- Propose, lead, and deliver high-impact ML applications across pricing, inventory, content, and trust & safety, aligning technical decisions with business outcomes
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of mid- to large-scale ML projects, from system design and model development through deployment and production operations
- Establish and promote ML engineering best practices, including model quality, MLOps, observability, and scalable system design
- Mentor junior engineers and support teams in integrating ML into existing production systems
- Partner with senior stakeholders across organizations to drive shared standards, communities of practice, and cross-team learning
- Lead complex, cross-organizational initiatives to improve performance, reliability, and scalability of ML systems
Requirements
- 8+ years (BS) / 6+ years (MS) of industry experience building and deploying machine learning models in production
- Strong experience with distributed data processing and large-scale datasets (Spark preferred)
- Proven ability to design, deploy, and operate real-time or near–real-time ML systems end to end, including feature pipelines, model training and validation, scalable inference, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining
- Proficiency in Python with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, and strong working knowledge of Scala or Java
- Deep expertise in end-to-end MLOps, including training and inference workflows, CI/CD for ML, model versioning, and automated retraining
- Strong ownership of ML observability, including model performance monitoring, data quality checks, drift detection, alerting, and root-cause analysis
- Experience operating cloud-native ML platforms and distributed systems (AWS, SageMaker, Kubernetes, Spark, Databricks) with reliability, scalability, and cost awareness.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision
- paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- wellness & travel reimbursement
- travel discounts
- International Airlines Travel Agent membership
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningMLOpsdistributed data processingreal-time ML systemsfeature pipelinesmodel trainingmodel validationscalable inferencemonitoringdrift detection
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringleadershipcommunicationcross-team learningstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingownershipinitiativeorganizational skills