RTB House

Machine Learning Research Team Leader

RTB House

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Poland

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Manage a team of strong ML Researchers
  • Provide deep research leadership and expertise
  • Act as a driver of execution and accountability within the team
  • Set clear expectations around ownership, delivery, and quality
  • Support team members through feedback and coaching, with a strong focus on effective execution and impact
  • Maintain a high technical and operational bar, balancing experimentation with delivery
  • Foster a culture of impact, healthy ambition, open mindedness, teamwork, and mutual respect.
  • Participate in hiring and onboarding as the team grows
  • Design and implement machine learning models (most often deep neural networks) used in production systems at scale
  • Translate research ideas into concrete, testable, and deployable solutions
  • Conduct and evaluate A/B tests, focusing on measurable impact rather than purely academic results
  • Develop and improve approaches to key problems such as bidding in first-price auctions, with clear ownership of outcomes
  • Lead research initiatives end-to-end: from problem formulation, through experimentation, to production rollout
  • Drive execution by helping the team prioritize work, remove blockers, and deliver results
  • Communicate clearly with product and engineering to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and impact

Requirements

  • Strong background as a Senior ML Researcher with a proven record of shipping impactful solutions
  • Experience leading teams or projects with solid track record of delivering impact
  • Solid understanding of statistics and probability
  • Strong programming skills and practical ML engineering mindset
  • Strong orientation toward execution, decision-making, and responsibility for outcomes
  • Formal people management experience is not strictly required. We value candidates who have led complex, multi-year projects involving multiple contributors and consistently delivered high-impact results and are motivated to grow into a people management role.
Benefits
  • A very attractive compensation
  • Work with a team of enthusiasts with experience in machine learning who willingly share their knowledge and skills
  • Work in the company that operates in remote-first manner
  • Access to the latest technologies and the possibility of real use of them in a large-scale and highly dynamic project;
  • Possibility to use knowledge and competences in practical applications - while optimizing algorithms supporting hundreds of millions of Internet users and monthly buys of billions of advertising views in the RTB model, based on extensive data sets
  • The effects of your work immediately visible in the company's business results
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningdeep neural networksA/B testingstatisticsprobabilityML engineeringproblem formulationexperimentationproduction rolloutimpact measurement
Soft Skills
leadershipexecutionaccountabilitycoachingteamworkcommunicationdecision-makingownershipfeedbackopen-mindedness