
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Zigsaw
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,584 - $320,320 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Write production Python that powers real-time bidding, model training, and campaign optimization
- Train, deploy, and monitor ML models that decide which ads to show, when, and at what price: millions of bid decisions per second
- Build and improve our incrementality measurement systems: helping advertisers understand the true causal lift of their CTV spend
- Design and implement new ML products across the ad-buying lifecycle: audience targeting, bid optimization, pacing, and attribution
- Use LLMs and generative AI to build internal tools that accelerate how we develop, test, and ship ML systems
- Serve as a technical lead and mentor on a distributed engineering team
Requirements
- Strong production Python skills: you write code that runs in prod, not just notebooks
- Solid statistics and ML fundamentals: you can reason about experiment design, model evaluation, and when simpler approaches beat complex ones
- Familiarity with modern AI tools and good judgment about where they add value
- Adtech or CTV experience: familiarity with RTB, programmatic advertising, supply-path optimization
- Clear written communication: we're a distributed team and writing is how decisions get made
- Comfort with ambiguity: you'll own problems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment, from scoping to shipping
- Nice-to-Haves:
- Teaching experience
- Causal inference: uplift modeling, synthetic controls, difference-in-differences, or incrementality testing
- Big data experience with Scala and Spark
- Systems programming experience in Zig or similar (C, C++, Rust)
- Reinforcement learning or bandit algorithms in production
- Experience building agentic AI systems or LLM-powered workflows
- MLOps experience: model deployment, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration on AWS
Benefits
- Equity
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonmachine learningstatisticscausal inferencebig dataScalaSparksystems programmingreinforcement learningMLOps
Soft Skills
clear written communicationcomfort with ambiguityteaching experiencetechnical leadmentoring