Engineering Manager, Ads ML Efficiency

the Team’s Evolution: Balance near-term white-glove optimization work with medium-term platformization and automation. Build XFN Alignment: Work closely with MLP, AMP, Ranking, and serving teams to clarify boundaries, upstream generic wins, and keep Ads needs on track. Raise the Bar: Establish engineering rigor around measurement, performance debugging, launch safety, and technical decision-making for efficiency work. What we’re looking for: Deep ML Engineering Experience: The candidate should have been close to the models themselves and understand training, serving, debugging, and optimization in depth. Hands-on Optimization Background: Direct experience improving training loops, serving systems, profiling workflows, model/inference efficiency, or GPU utilization. Strong Managerial Ability: Experience building and leading teams, coaching engineers, managing delivery, and making prioritization tradeoffs under ambiguity. Distributed Systems Fluency: Proven ability to reason about production-scale ML systems and the tradeoffs that govern reliability, speed, cost, and scale. Customer and Platform Instincts: Able to work as a service provider to modeling teams while still building reusable systems rather than only heroic one-offs. Strong Communication: Can explain technical tradeoffs clearly to engineers, PMs, and senior stakeholders. Ads experience: Experience in ads ranking, recommender systems, marketplace ML, or adjacent production ML domains is strongly preferred. Nice-to-have: Experience with GPU training and serving migrations. Experience with PyTorch, distributed training frameworks, or kernel/performance optimization. Experience building efficiency benchmarking or launch certification frameworks. Experience working in organizations where ML platform and applied modeling

responsibilities are split across multiple teams.

Benefits: Comprehensive Healthcare

Benefits and Income Replacement Programs 401k with Employer Match Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support Family Planning Support Gender-Affirming Care Mental Health & Coaching

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