Machine Learning Engineer 5 - Ads Inventory Management & Forecasting

We are looking for highly motivated engineers working in the advertising space who are excited to join us on this journey.

- Experience in building end-to-end ML model deployment and inference infra for low-latency real-time ad systems.

- Experience in handling data at extremely large volumes with big data tools like Spark.

- Productionized predictive models to forecast the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, including metrics like impressions, reach, clicks, conversions, and ROI.

- Building Scalable Simulation solution to model different inventory scenarios, including demand fluctuations, pricing strategies, and inventory allocation.

- General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape, with a focus on publisher side challenges like optimizing fill rates and maximizing revenue in the context of inventory management.

- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders from science team, product, engineering, operations, design, consumer research, etc., to productionize and deploy models at scale

- Good understanding of Lucene index and had experience building Lucene index with large volume of data.

- Familiar with publisher-side ad tech systems including ad servers, bidders, yield optimizers, and their demand-side counterparts (SSPs/DSPs)

- Experience in yield optimization, product recommendation and dynamic allocation of direct/programmatic guaranteed and non-guaranteed inventory

- Contributed to an ads industry technology standard (e.g VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.

- Familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world.

- Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of its unique constraints

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range.

The range for this role is $466,000.00 - $750,000.00.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.

Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here .

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