Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Moloco NEXT

Moloco; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Thrive Day off

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Moloco NEXT is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own CTR/CVR prediction models in a real-time bidding system. You will drive end-to-end model development, evaluation, and deployment to production.

Lead feature engineering, signal hunting, offline/online evaluation, and tooling for experiment debugging while collaborating with data and pipeline teams. 5+ years of ML experience required; Python proficiency essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of machine learning experience with production-grade models.
• Experience with data analysis and large-scale prediction/decisioning systems.
• Proficient in Python; comfortable operating under ambiguity.
• Bonus: experience with LLMs as agents for evaluation or signal discovery.

Responsibilities

• Own production CTR/CVR prediction models end-to-end in NEXT.
• Design offline evaluation, ship to online A/B, and iterate quickly.
• Identify new data sources, signals, and features to improve models.
• Build tooling for experiment debugging and signal discovery.
• Collaborate with data and pipeline teams to align signals and goals.

Skills

ML experience

Data analysis

Large-scale systems

Python

Ambiguity tolerance

LLMs as agents (bonus)

Job description

About Moloco

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

About Moloco

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco

Moloco NEXT is Moloco's performance advertising platform within Moloco. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on NEXT, you'll own the CTR/CVR prediction models inside a real-time bidding system that decides on every ad request in under 100ms.

The Opportunity

• Own a production CTR/CVR prediction model end-to-end — modeling, eval, feature pipelines, online experimentation, and post-launch ops. By month six, you'll own a meaningful slice of NEXT's ML stack.
• Hunt for the missing signals that move the needle: new data sources to log and ingest, derived and contextual features the current model doesn't yet see. On NEXT, most wins come from finding signals others missed — not from architectural cleverness.
• Run the loop fast: design offline evaluation, ship to online A/B, read out in days, iterate. Diagnose the offline-online divergences when they show up — and they will.
• Build the agentic tooling that automates parts of our experiment-debugging and signal-discovery workflow, both as a contributor and as a user.
• Set technical direction. Decide what NEXT should bet on next quarter, not just execute on assignments. Bridge to the data and pipeline teams whose signals feed our models — most signal-hunting wins depend on getting those teams aligned.
• Embrace the unglamorous parts: data-quality instrumentation, train/serve consistency in feature pipelines, slicing eval to find failure modes, and the careful experiment debugging that separates real wins from noise.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?

• 5+ years of machine learning experience with a track record of shipping production-grade models in business-critical environments. We don't filter on degrees.
• Experience with data analysis
• Experience working on large-scale prediction or decisioning systems — CTR/CVR, ranking, recommendation, personalization, or related.
• Experience writing code in Python
• Comfortable functioning under ambiguity
• Bonus: experience using LLMs as agents or feature extractors — especially in evaluation, experiment debugging, or signal-discovery contexts.

Compensation & Benefits

U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits and perks. U.S.-based employees also receive up to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar year and one Thrive Day off per quarter. Additionally, all employees have Flexible Time Off (FTO).

The successful candidate may be eligible for a bonus and equity awards. Eligibility and amounts are determined by performance and the terms of the applicable plans.

The location for this role is listed above. For base pay range purposes, location-based compensation is grouped into the following regions. Your region is determined by your assigned work location.

• Region A: Menlo Park Office, New York Office, SF Bay Area, New York Metro Area
• Region B: Seattle Office, Seattle, Los Angeles/Orange County, San Diego, Austin, Boston, Washington DC Metro Area, Miami
• Region C: All other U.S. locations

Salary Ranges

Region A: $200,000—$260,000 USD

Region B: $180,000—$235,000 USD

Region C: $170,000—$225,000 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.

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