Lead ML Engineering & AI Platform at Scale

SNAP, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave up to 28 weeks

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) with company match

Wellbeing and family support programs

Wellness benefits and fitness perks

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the Advertiser Experience ML team in Palo Alto. You will drive the technical strategy, own the roadmap, and scale LLM-powered ad review and moderation across advertiser-facing products.

You will partner with product, data science, and platform teams to deliver measurable outcomes while mentoring a high‑performing team and ensuring reliability, privacy, and cost efficiency in production systems.

Qualifications

• Track record of setting a team strategy and turning it into a roadmap with measurable business outcomes.
• Technical depth to guide modeling, data pipelines, and inference decisions.
• Experience building production ML systems with LLMs and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ML and software engineers building models and data pipelines behind ads systems.
• Set technical strategy and own roadmap across product and platform dependencies.
• Scale LLM-powered ad review and automate moderation without sacrificing quality.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and other teams to define success metrics and outcomes.
• Maintain hands‑on involvement when priorities require it and hire/retain top talent.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical depth

Production systems

LLM workflows

Cost & latency management

Cross-functional leadership

Mentorship

Experience leading ML eng teams

Ads integrity

Fraud detection

Content understanding

Multimodal models

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Observability

Data pipelines

Inference pipelines

LLM-based workflows

Education

Bachelor’s in a related technical field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Distributed batch processing

Workflow orchestration

Observability

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the Advertiser Experience ML team in Palo Alto. You will drive the technical strategy, own the roadmap, and scale LLM-powered ad review and moderation across advertiser-facing products.

You will partner with product, data science, and platform teams to deliver measurable outcomes while mentoring a high‑performing team and ensuring reliability, privacy, and cost efficiency in production systems.