Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Ads)

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning to join our Revenue ML team at Discord. This team partners with our revenue product groups, focusing on both consumer revenue and our emerging Ads initiative. This role will specifically contribute to our Ads ML efforts, helping to build and scale ML capabilities in areas such as ads measurement, targeting, and delivery ranking. As part of this team, you will play a critical role in developing foundational ML models that enhance ad relevance, optimize performance, and drive revenue. This is a unique opportunity to work on an early-stage Ads ML platform and have a direct impact on the business's success. Our tech stack includes Python, ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, large-scale data infrastructure, and real-time ad-serving technologies. What You'll Be Doing: • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for ads targeting and ranking. • Develop sophisticated ML solutions such as identity graph to enhance ad targeting. • Build and optimize ad ranking models to serve the most effective ads based on campaign objectives (e.g., app installs, link click). • Improve ads targeting and ranking by leveraging both on-platform and off-platform signals. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams to define and execute on the Ads ML roadmap. • Scale our ML infrastructure to support an increa…