Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ad Performance

Launch Potato 🥔🚀📊

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$160,000–$250,000/year

Benefits

Job Description

Establish the technical vision for personalization at Launch Potato, solving the company’s most complex ML challenges and influencing strategy, architecture, and innovation across teams. Define company-wide personalization strategy and architecture, driving alignment across all ML teams. Solve critical technical challenges such as cold start, real-time learning, and exploration/exploitation tradeoffs. Design and implement advanced ML solutions using cutting-edge techniques (e.g., graph neural networks, causal models, bandit algorithms). Create and enforce ML architecture patterns, design standards, and reusable infrastructure across teams. Lead multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives that redefine how personalization impacts business KPIs. Act as technical mentor to senior ML engineers, guiding complex decision-making and scaling team capability. Represent Launch Potato’s technical brand externally through speaking engagements, open source contributions, or publications. Champion privacy-preserving personalization, responsible AI practices, and adaptive learning systems.

About Launch Potato

Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands such as FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState.

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