Manager, Machine Learning Engineering, User & Friends

What you’ll do:

• Lead a team of machine learning engineers and software engineers to build large scale indexing, retrieval and ranking system to deliver best Snapchat content to drive user growth

• Collaborate with broad product teams in Snap to define the architecture and vision of the system, and grow the team beyond the initial scope

• Build the evaluation system to drive rapid iteration and high-quality decision making: work closely with Data Science and Product partners to define success metrics.

• Build and grow a high-performing team: uplevel the team’s engineering and ML excellence, and influence the company-wide ML strategy.

• Deep understanding of machine learning approaches, algorithms and their application to recommender and search system

• Experience on utilizing large language models for tasks like keyword extraction, description generation, and semantic relevance judging.

• Experience Search Engine Optimization.

• Strong management and mentorship skills, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with meticulous attention to detail

• Ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally

• Proficiency in managing and solving ambiguous problems

• Bachelor’s in a related technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience

• 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s ML industry experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad ML experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4+ years of post-grad ML experience

• 1 + year(s) of experience leading machine learning teams teams that focus on ranking or recommendations

• Experience with real-time recommendation or search ranking systems.

• Experience with building LLM based information retrieval or tagging system

• Experience working with distributed systems

• Experience working with machine learning, ranking infrastructures, and system designs

• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and apply them at work

• Experience working with large-scale machine learning frameworks such as Tensor Flow, Caffe2, PyTorch, Spark ML, scikit-learn, or related frameworks

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In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):
The base salary range for this position is $229,000-$343,000 annually.

Zone B:
The base salary range for this position is $218,000-$326,000 annually.

Zone C:
The base salary range for this position is $195,000-$292,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

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