Lead ML Inference Engineer, Advertising
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Teamwork makes the stream work.
Roku is changing how the world watches TV
Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S. Canada and Mexico and weve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.
From your first day at Roku youll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. Were a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.
About the team
The Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem - Advertisers Publishers and Roku. The systems and solutions span multiple disciplines and technologies to perform real-time multi-objective optimization across distributed systems at large scale and with low latency. We use Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning AI Control and Optimization Systems and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems. At the core of this is our Machine Learning and Inference Platform that powers the entire landscape.
About the role
In this role you will architect design and lead the development of a SOTA Inference platform that can handle Advertising-level low latencies scale throughput and availability with optimizations that span across hardware software and models. Were looking for a strong technical leader with deep experience in ML serving high-performance computing and industry standard frameworks - someone excited to mentor engineers innovate at scale and shape the future of machine learning at Roku.
What youll be doing
- Lead the design and development of a SOTA Inference platform
- Oversee the development of monitoring observability and other tooling to ensure system and model performance reliability and scalability of online inference services
- Identify and resolve system inefficiencies performance bottlenecks and reliability issues ensuring optimized end-to-end performance
- Stay at the forefront of advancements in inference frameworks ML hardware acceleration and distributed systems and incorporate innovations where and when they are impactful
Were excited if you have
- M.S. or above in CS ECE or a related field
- 10 years of experience in developing and deploying large-scale distributed systems with at least 5 years in a leadership or technical lead role
- Strong programming skills in high-performance languages
- Deep understanding of inference frameworks and ML system deployment
- Proven experience optimizing performance for large-scale machine learning systems including a deep knowledge of SOTA model optimizations hardware-software co-design GPU acceleration and HPC techniques
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience leading teams working on high-throughput low-latency ML serving systems
- Experience collaborating with and leading global cross-functional teams
- Contributions to open-source ML or systems projects
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Our Hybrid Work Approach
Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.
Benefits
Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical dental and vision) life accident disability commuter and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. Its important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location please consult with your recruiter.
Accommodations
Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process please direct your inquiries to .
The Roku Culture
Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the companys success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs who are easy to work with and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. Were independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and short at Roku youll be part of a company thats changing how the world watches TV.
We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution but the solution isnt real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation one that has served us well since 2002.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- Digital Marketing
- Marketing
- Google AdWords
- Google Ads
- Account Management
- Adobe Audience Manager
- Agency Management
- Social Media Advertising
- DoubleClick
- DoubleClick for Publishers
- Lead Generation
