Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Ads

Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Department: Engineering Team: Machine Learning Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Ads is a growing business at Uber. As part of this team, you will get an opportunity to influence the evolution of ads platform while delivering a lot of impact. You will provide technical leadership, and drive technical direction for the ads delivery area. You will work with cross-functional teams to find opportunities and implement enhancements to improve consumer experience and unlock value for advertisers and Uber. ### Technical Leadership & Innovation - Lead the design and implementation of advanced ML systems for all ads products at Uber - Own end-to-end ML model lifecycle from research through production deployment and continuous optimization ### Platform & Architecture - Build scalable ML architecture and feature management systems supporting ads marketplace - Establish ML engineering best practices, monitoring, and operational excellence across the organization - Create platform abstractions that enable other ML engineers to iterate faster on improvements ### Cross-Functional Impact - Collaborate with ads marketplace product and science teams to productionize cutting-edge ML research - Work with platform engineering teams to ensure ML systems meet reliability and performance standards - Influence technical roadmaps across multiple teams through technical leadership and strategic thinking ### Team Development - Mentor and grow senior ML engineers, establishing technical standards and engineering culture - Lead technical discussions and architecture reviews for complex ML systems For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$267,000 per year - USD$297,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$267,000 per year - USD$297,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will als