AI Research Engineer 6 – TL, Algo Core – AI for Member Systems

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AI Research Engineer leading Netflix’s reward modeling and multi-objective optimization systems. Shaping promotional decisions across recommendation, personalization, and member experiences.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive the team’s technical vision and roadmap for reward modeling, utility estimation, and multi-objective optimization, including auction-based and constrained-optimization approaches to allocating promotional real estate
  • Drive cross-functional partnerships with Merchandising, Ads, MECS, Product, and Data Science & Engineering to align AI/ML capabilities with business priorities
  • Partner with the Personalization Foundations team to integrate and leverage the utility layer, reward signals, and multi-objective optimization across all member-facing AI models
  • Design and run rigorous offline experiments and A/B tests to validate the impact of new reward, utility, and multi-objective optimization systems on key business and member-experience metrics
  • Contribute to the team’s technical culture through mentorship, code review, and raising the bar on engineering practices

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of experience applying machine learning in an industry setting, with a track record of delivering impactful production systems
  • Experience driving successful partnerships with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
  • Master’s or PhD in a computational field such as computer science, statistics, math, operations research, or physics
  • Deep expertise in ML and optimization algorithms and frameworks, with hands-on experience training, tuning, and deploying models in production
  • Experience with reward modeling, utility estimation, or constrained-optimization and auction-based allocation systems
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python, plus experience with Scala or Java
  • Strong 80/20 mindset: ability to scope the right problem, ship pragmatically, and maintain rigorous standards without over-engineering

Benefits:

  • Health Plans
  • Mental Health support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program
  • Disability Programs
  • Health Savings Accounts
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Life and Serious Injury Benefits
  • Paid leave of absence programs
  • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
  • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off