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Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning - Bidding

Vungle

Vungle

Software Engineering
United States · Remote
Posted 6+ months ago

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers, and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

Position

At Liftoff, the Supply Platform team plays a crucial role in the company's success. Our team is dedicated to designing and constructing the platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily and is expanding rapidly. We're a group of innovative engineers who leverage the latest technology to develop efficient and scalable systems. If you're passionate about building and scaling low-latency, high-throughput systems, we'd be delighted to speak with you!

Location

We are a remote-first company, and our technical teams generally gather in-person in the SF Bay Area at least 1 week per quarter.

Our preference is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area, otherwise anywhere in Pacific timezone where we have an entity: California, Oregon, Washington (and potentially West Coast of Canada).

Responsibilities

  • Build new ML infrastructure and support our experimental workflows.
  • Prototype and evaluate new ML algorithms and modeling techniques.
  • Evaluate new data sets.
  • Run machine learning tests and experiments. Perform statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results.
  • Collaborate with other eng teams to ensure data pipelines are robust and our bidder tech can properly leverage new ML models.
  • Collaborate with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
  • Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working on machine learning projects
  • Solid knowledge of machine learning algorithms.
  • Functional understanding of ML frameworks
  • Proficient with ML libraries and packages.
  • Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, R, C++ or Java
  • Knowledge of distributed systems and data processing frameworks
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
  • Passionate about helping others and investing in the team’s success.

Nice to have Experience

  • Ad tech experience.
  • Strong mathematical background (statistics in particular).
  • Data engineering or big data analytics experience.

Preferred location for this position is SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle Area, or Greater Los Angeles Area.

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location.

The base pay range for this position in the US depends on the location and falls in the following zones:
SF Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Orange County: $160,000 - 190,000
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $150,000 - 175,000
All other cities in our approved to hire states: $140,000 - 164,000

Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join our team and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem. If this role sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.