Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Open Application

About Teads

Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

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This is not an active job posting and you will only be contacted if there is a future role that fits your skillset.

Our main Engineering challenges at Teads

• Build efficient and easy-to-use web products  used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
• Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture  to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others.
• Working in a very  high-traffic  environment (2.2 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds).
• Management of  large datasets  with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second).
• A fast-changing environment where we continuously collaborate with Product teams  and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for new features and Products.
• Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge
• Work in an international environment with offices located in Israel, Slovenia and France

What will you do?

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, your mission will be:

• Improve existing ML library & tools allowing to explore and analyze more and more data and provide accurate feedback on the Teads activities.
• Create, design, develop, test and monitor your code in production autonomously and reliably.
• Design, develop, and implement ML models and algorithms with a focus on robustness, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with data scientists to identify and apply effective machine learning techniques and strategies for improved system performance.
• Mentor other team members to improve their autonomy and Software Engineering skills.
• Collaborate with variety of teams for production cases to develop services from design to production.
• Make sure the software is in good hands by writing, running and automating tests (unit, functional, load...).
• Keep up to date with the latest Machine Learning technologies to make sure we constantly improve our ML system.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong programming skills with a focus on Python, Java, Scala and proficiency in software engineering practices such as testing, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience implementing machine learning algorithms, particularly in production environments.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and explain complex technical concepts clearly.

Nice-to-Have:

• Knowledge of Data Engineering tools (e.g. Spark, Airflow, ...).
• Familiarity with ML frameworks and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch,..).
• Performance engineering capabilities, including profiling and optimizing algorithms and systems for high efficiency and low latency.
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructures (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• A Master’s or PhD in SC/Math.

The Team

• The AI department currently consists of 50 people who are a mix of data scientists, machine learning and backend engineers
• The department provides technologies that power outcomes of campaigns with a total yearly turn over of $1.7B
• Runs large scale prediction and control systems for ad delivery, dealing with millions of live ads, doing more than a billion predictions per second based on large on-line trained models being updated every 5 minutes

Please submit your CV in English.

Life at Teads

At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.

As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:

• We've merged two open internet category leaders-Outbrain and Teads-to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
• As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups - employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.