Senior Research Engineer, GenAI Messaging & Personalization

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) with employer match

Stock option program

Disability programs

Health savings & FSAs

Family-forming benefits

Life and serious injury benefits

Paid leave of absence

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a tech lead to co-own the vision and strategy for production ML systems at the intersection of product and platform. You will drive GenAI-powered message creation, Commerce integrations, and new content experiences at global scale.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, high-visibility impact on engagement and revenue, and building from scratch while optimizing existing levers. Excellent ML and software skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience applying machine learning in an industry setting.
• Experience driving partnerships with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Masters or PhD in a computational field (physics, computer science, statistics, or math).
• Deep expertise in ML algorithms and frameworks, with hands-on experience training, tuning, and deploying models in production.
• Experience with personalization, recommendations, or search algorithms.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, plus experience with Scala or Java.
• Strong system design skills, keeping operational simplicity in mind.
• Strong 80/20 mindset: scope the right problem and ship pragmatically.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's technical vision and roadmap for candidate generation and emerging applications.
• Lead cross-functional partnerships with Merchandising, Product, Engineering, and Data Science & Engineering to align ML capabilities with business priorities.
• Design, build, and ship production ML systems that scale across Netflix's ecosystem.
• Partner with the AIMS AI Foundations team to integrate foundation model capabilities for member-facing use cases.
• Design and run offline experiments and A/B tests to validate impact on key business metrics.
• Mentor teammates, perform code reviews, and raise the bar on engineering practices.

Skills

ML algorithms

Production ML systems

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Mentorship

Education

Masters or PhD in physics, computer science, statistics, or math

Tools

Python

Scala/Java

Experiment design

Job description

Netflix is seeking a tech lead to co-own the vision and strategy for production ML systems at the intersection of product and platform. You will drive GenAI-powered message creation, Commerce integrations, and new content experiences at global scale.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, high-visibility impact on engagement and revenue, and building from scratch while optimizing existing levers. Excellent ML and software skills are essential.