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Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Ads & Discovery

San Mateo, CA💼 Full-time💰 $295,250–$295,250🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building large-scale ML infrastructure to power ads and discovery systems for hundreds of millions of users, focusing on model training, serving, and optimization.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

Scalable production-ready ML systems for recommendation, search, and agentic applications

Domain

Internet / Machine Learning Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale ML system design, distributed training, low-latency inference, GPU optimization, model quantization/pruning, custom kernel development, strategic planning, architecture ownership

Preferred skills

Experience with transformer architectures, LLMs, generative rankers, FSDP, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA

Technologies

FSDP, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA, distributed training frameworks, inference engines, GPU kernels

Responsibilities

Co-design models and systems at the intersection of architecture and infrastructure; investigate tradeoffs from data pipelines to production serving; lead strategic planning and roadmap execution; establish engineering best practices for scalability and cost-effectiveness; collaborate with data scientists and product teams to operate robust ML platforms; stay abreast of industry trends in ML and infrastructure

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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