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Through its ecosystem of businesses - including InMobi Advertising and flagship consumer platform Glance - InMobi leverages data, machine learning, and generative AI to help brands reach audiences more precisely and consumers discover products more intuitively. Glance, which is pioneering new models of agentic commerce, is owned and operated by Glance InMobi Pte. Ltd., a non-consolidated subsidiary of InMobi Pte. Ltd.\nInMobi Advertising\nInMobi Advertising, part of global technology company InMobi, is an agentic advertising platform helping brands and merchants achieve their business outcomes. Through its proprietary intelligence, AI-led solutions, and vast consumer reach - including flagship consumer platform Glance - InMobi Advertising delivers the omnichannel performance defining what's next in advertising and commerce. Glance is owned and operated by Glance InMobi Pte. Ltd., a non-consolidated subsidiary of InMobi Pte. Ltd. To learn more, visit advertising.inmobi.com.\nGlance\nGlance is an intelligent shopping agent, redefining the commerce experience. Powered by proprietary agentic intelligence and generative AI, Glance delivers a hyper-personalized consumer experience across mobile and TV - shaping the new era of shopping. Glance is operated by Glance InMobi Pte. Ltd., a non-consolidated subsidiary of global technology leader InMobi, and is backed by Mithril Capital, Google and Jio Platforms. To learn more, visit glance.com.\nOverview of the Role:\nWe are looking for an Applied Scientist to develop and improve our user personalization intelligence through architectural and data research aimed at optimizing the efficacy of our targeting and pricing systems. More specifically, our team is exploring state-of-the-art attention-based architectures powered by multi-modal data, operating at InMobi's scale of trillions of events per day.\nYou'll join a team of experienced researchers and practitioners who have been conducting research in this space for over a decade, working closely with engineering and product counterparts to ensure research consistently translates into production and real business outcomes. InMobi maintains deep investment in the compute and infrastructure this kind of work demands - including GPU compute, training, and inference platforms. This is a rare opportunity to shape how personalization and targeting operate at truly planetary scale.\nThe Impact You'll Make:\nBuild a pipeline of evidence-backed hypotheses and evaluate them through to a clear accept/reject decision, taking the winners to production\nDrive architectural research into attention and post-attention architectures while meeting the millisecond-level latency demanded by real-time advertising\nAdvance our evaluation methodology across offline and online settings, ensuring model improvements translate into real business impact\nLeverage the breadth of data features across our product portfolio to improve our models and help guide product teams toward sourcing high-value data\nContribute regularly to our internal model implementations, training pipelines, and documentation to help the team operate efficiently and share knowledge effectively\nGuide our infrastructure teams on medium- and long-term needs to increase our experimentation velocity\nMaintain an active research profile through external engagement - publishing, giving talks, and participating in top conferences\nThe Experience We Need:\nPhD in machine learning, data science, or a related field preferred; Master's degree also considered, particularly with a strong industry track record.Candidates nearing graduation are also welcome to apply.\n\nDemonstrated expertise in machine learning/deep learning, whether through peer-reviewed publications (e.g., NeurIPS, KDD, RecSys) or through industry experience building and shipping models that performed well at scale\nFluency in the PyTorch or JAX ecosystem, with the ability to implement complex operations in vectorized form\nExpertise in deep recommender systems, including two-tower and attention-based architectures\nComfort with large-scale distributed data systems and the ability to build production data pipelines for training and inference\nUnderstanding of the ads ecosystem (OpenRTB, SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges, MMPs) is a plus\nAt InMobi, you’ll be surrounded by people who…\nThink big and act fast: We’re entrepreneurial, thrive in ambiguity, and love solving high-impact problems\nAre passionate, fanatically driven, and take immense pride in their work: We care deeply about the impact we create and continuously push our potential\nOwn their outcomes: We take responsibility, make bold decisions, and execute with confidence\nEmbrace freedom with accountability: We value autonomy and understand that trust comes with responsibility\nBelieve in lifelong learning: We welcome feedback, challenge ourselves to grow, and aren’t afraid to take smart risks\nAward-winning culture, best-in-class benefits\nOur compensation philosophy enables us to provide a competitive salary that drives high performance while balancing business needs and pay parity. We determine compensation based on a wide variety of factors, including role, nature of experience, skills, and location. \nThe base (fixed) salary for this role ranges from $182,250 to $218,500 USD (min to max of base salary pay range). This salary range applies to our offices in California and New York*.\n*Our ranges may vary based on the final location and region of the role in accordance with the geographical differentiation in pay scales in the country.\nIn addition to cash compensation, based on the position, an InMobian can receive equity in the form of Employee Stock Options (ESOPs). To encourage a spirit of shared ownership, we believe that our employees should have the ability to own a part of the organization. Furthermore, as you contribute to the growth of the company, additional stock may be issued in recognition of your contribution over time.\nA quick snapshot of our benefits:\nCompetitive salary and ESOP grant (where applicable) \nHigh-quality medical, dental, and vision insurance (including company-matched HSA) \n401(k) company match \nGenerous combination of vacation time, sick days, special occasion time, and company-wide holidays \nSubstantial maternity and paternity leave benefits and a compassionate work environment \nFlexible working hours to suit everyone \nWellness stipend for a healthier you! \nFree lunch provided in our offices daily \nPet-friendly work environment and robust pet insurance policy - because we love our animals! \nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nIf this sounds like the kind of team, role, values, benefits, and challenges that excite you, we’d love to hear from you. Go for it!\nInMobi is an equal opportunity employer \nInMobi is a place where everyone can grow. Howsoever you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, we invite you to apply if this sounds like a role that would make you excited to work. \nInMobi provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 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