ML Engineering Manager: Scale LLMs & Production Systems

SNAP, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support

Long-term incentive compensation

Job summary

Snap Inc. is hiring a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the Advertiser Experience ML team. You will guide the models, data pipelines, and agentic systems powering ad review, fraud detection, and advertiser insights.

You will own the team's technical strategy, drive collaboration with Product, Data Science, and Ranking, and scale ML workflows while maintaining privacy, cost, and quality.

Qualifications

• Must-have ML expertise with classification, recommendation, content understanding.
• Experience building production systems with LLMs, including evaluation, iteration, cost and latency management.
• Ability to guide design across modeling, data pipelines, and inference.
• Track record turning team strategy into an actionable roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ML and software engineers building models, agentic systems, and data pipelines for ad review, fraud detection, advertiser recommendations, and web/app understanding.
• Set technical strategy and roadmap across dependent product and platform teams.
• Scale LLM-powered ad review to automate more moderation decisions without sacrificing quality.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Business Integrity, Ranking, Attribution, and Recommendations teams to define success metrics.
• Maintain deep technical involvement from design to hands-on contributions when needed.
• Hire and develop a high-performing team with emphasis on model quality, reliability, cost, privacy, and responsible AI.

Skills

ML strategy

Production ML systems

Cross-functional leadership

Team mentorship

Stakeholder management

Hands-on coding

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

8+ years ML experience OR MS +7+ years OR PhD +4+ years

1+ year leading ML eng teams

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Snap Inc. is hiring a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead the Advertiser Experience ML team. You will guide the models, data pipelines, and agentic systems powering ad review, fraud detection, and advertiser insights.

You will own the team's technical strategy, drive collaboration with Product, Data Science, and Ranking, and scale ML workflows while maintaining privacy, cost, and quality.