Staff ML Engineer - Ad Serving & Marketplace Intelligence

Roku; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 510,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity awards

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Roku, a leading TV streaming platform, seeks a staff-level machine learning engineer in New York to lead marketplace intelligence and demand optimization. You will apply advanced analytics to pricing, allocation, and auction dynamics in Roku Exchange, shaping high-impact ML strategies and production systems.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in ML, production experience, and strong Python/SQL/Java/Scala skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience applying machine learning and data science to solve real-world problems.
• Deep expertise in statistics, machine learning, and optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying ML models in production, including feature engineering, model serving, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear hypotheses, measurable objectives, and actionable strategies.
• Develop advanced ML models and research-driven methodologies to drive product innovation and improve business outcomes.
• Design and run live experiments to prototype improvements and validate their effectiveness.
• Build production-grade ML systems that operate reliably in large-scale, low-latency ad serving environments.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define, plan, and drive the ML strategy for Ad Serving.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship in machine learning, experimentation frameworks, and applied research best practices.

Skills

10+ years ML experience

Statistics & optimization

Cross-functional leadership

Python expertise

CS fundamentals

Tools

Python

SQL

Java/Scala

Job description

Roku, a leading TV streaming platform, seeks a staff-level machine learning engineer in New York to lead marketplace intelligence and demand optimization. You will apply advanced analytics to pricing, allocation, and auction dynamics in Roku Exchange, shaping high-impact ML strategies and production systems.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in ML, production experience, and strong Python/SQL/Java/Scala skills.