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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About SmartNews

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Created to deliver high-quality news from a wide variety of trusted publishers in one place, the SmartNews team works tirelessly to help readers feel good about being informed.

Key benefits

  • Your ideas matter
  • International team

About the position

The Team

Our team is dedicated to empower ads business by developing state-of-art ranking systems and advanced product solutions that ensures the highest relevance, profitability, and sustainability of our ad offerings. By applying a blend of engineering expertise and business insights, we strive to enhance ad performance and revenue, meeting and exceeding the expectations of our advertisers. We are looking for talented engineers to join us in building the next-generation ad systems and products that will support our rapid and ambitious growth.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimize core algorithms to generate relevant ads, driving the growth of a profitable ad ecosystem. This includes areas such as targeting, ranking, bidding and auction
  • Work closely with backend engineers to develop a highly scalable ranking and delivery system, ensuring high performance and reliability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product specialists and sales, building product solutions to solve advertisers’ pain points and meet their needs.

Requirements

  • BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Science (Physics or Mathematics), or other relevant majors.
  • Solid programming skills, proficient in handling complex systems.
  • Proven experience in developing and optimizing large scale machine learning applications.
  • Good mathematical skills, particularly in statistics and mathematical optimization.
  • Strong analytical thinking

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant major.
  • Strong domain knowledge about the digital ad ecosystem in at least one of the following areas: bidding/auction/measurement/conversion modeling, etc.
  • Ability to drive cross-functional collaborations, and deliver business impact.
  • Proven research experience, such as holding a PhD degree and having good publications.

Meet SmartNews's Developers

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