Expression of Interest: Machine Learning Engineer

About Moloco: Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy. Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance. Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin. Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now! Expression of Interest We know that for the most talented engineers, the right opportunity is about more than just a job title, it’s about the right challenge at the right time. Even if our current openings don't perfectly fit your timing and interests today, we still want to hear from you. We view this as a priority pathway to connect with curious, driven MLEs whose unique expertise can help us architect the next generation of planet-scale ML systems. At Moloco, our mission is to empower the global digital economy by turning massive first-party data into measurable business outcomes. Whether it’s optimizing real-time bidding for Moloco Ads or building AI-native stacks for Streaming and Commerce, we’re looking for engineers to help us lead the shift toward a more performance-driven, AI-powered internet. If you’re excited to scale and innovate in a fast-moving environment, share your profile and we will reach out the moment we see a potential match for your experiences and future goals. About the Role As a Machine Learning Engineer at Moloco, you will design, train, and deploy the large‑scale models that power our programmatic advertising and commerce media products. You will work at the heart of our real-time bidding and pricing systems, helping shape an end-to-end ML ecosystem that processes billions of daily events. Your work will directly improve marketplace performance for global advertisers and publishers by optimizing for relevance, ROI, and user experience at a scale few companies can match. The Opportunity Architect and iterate on high-performance models that improve ad relevance, click-through rates, and conversion performance. Productionize and maintain scalable ML pipelines - from data ingestion to online inference - on top of planet-scale infrastructure. Extract insights from massive datasets of user behavior and auction signals to define new features and refine modeling strategies. Translate business goals (revenue, ROI, engagement) into concrete modeling challenges and success metrics in collaboration with Product and Data Science. Validate innovation through rigorous experimentation, including A/B tests, offline evaluations, and counterfactual analyses. Balance marketplace health by implementing models that harmonize advertiser value with a high-quality user experience. Enhance system reliability by refining feature stores, monitoring data quality, and establishing robust debugging practices. Drive platform evolution , contributing to ML tools and guidelines that increase experimentation velocity and deployment speed. Optimize for performance , partnering with Infra teams to reduce latency and improve throughput for low-cost, high-scale decisioning. Elevate technical exc