Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Paramount

Principal Machine Learning Engineer leading high-impact ML initiatives for Paramount Streaming. Focused on optimizing sign-up flows and delivering a personalized viewer experience through advanced modeling techniques.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $234,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BigQueryPyTorchSparkTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and development of personalization in the P+ sign-up flow and Pluto TV registration flows.
Own end-to-end machine learning pipelines—from data and feature engineering to training, deployment, serving, and monitoring.
Partner closely with product, design, content, platform engineering, and data science to define roadmaps and deliver measurable user outcomes.
Advance our semantic search and browse experience through state-of-the-art embeddings, query understanding, and domain-specific model architectures.
Establish high-integrity experimentation practices, improve offline→online correlation, and guide feature rollouts with strong scientific rigor.
Mentor engineers and scientists, develop technical talent, and help shape the culture of our growing Applied ML organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7–10+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, applied science, recommender systems, multi-armed bandits, or large-scale search/ranking systems.
Demonstrated expertise deploying ML systems in high-traffic, real-time production environments.
Deep knowledge of modeling techniques such as representation learning, multi-task learning, multi-modal embeddings, contextual bandits, and session modeling.
Strong fluency in experimentation methodology, A/B testing, causal reasoning, and metric design.
Experience leading and mentoring technical teams; ability to drive strategy while remaining hands-on.
Proficiency with modern ML tooling (PyTorch, TensorFlow), big-data environments (Spark, Beam, BigQuery), and production MLOps workflows.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k) plan
Life insurance coverage
Disability benefits
Tuition assistance program
PTO
Bonus eligible

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learning engineeringapplied sciencerecommender systemsmulti-armed banditslarge-scale search systemsrepresentation learningmulti-task learningmulti-modal embeddingscontextual banditssession modeling

Soft Skills

mentoringteam leadershipstrategic thinkingcollaborationcommunication