Machine Learning Engineer III, Sponsored Ads

Our Opportunity :

The Chewy Sponsored Ads team is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Bellevue, WA  to help launch various innovative ads-offerings for our sponsored advertisement initiatives. As advertising is a critical component of our e-commerce ecosystem, this role will help provide a critical revenue stream to the company!

As a member of our Sponsored Ads development team, you will influence technical strategy across product, search, and discovery, as well as the relevance, ranking, prediction, and auction of a large selection of our sponsored ads offering (both onsite and offsite). You’ll be at the forefront of leading technology business impact, applying machine learning and deep-learning models that will influence selection, relevance, ranking, click-through prediction modelling, auction-dynamics, keywords recommendation, campaign optimization, ads channel performance, ads performance maximization, and wide array of engaging data-science methodologies (including but not limited to LLMs and generative AI).

Sponsored Ads composes a win-win ecosystem for shoppers, brand owners, and Chewy! Our Pet Parent customers are offered a range of alternate options to help them choose and learn about new products, new brands, new promotions, and different price points. Brand owners and advertisers get to showcase their product offerings in the front row for their target audience (proud pet parents) and improve their reach.

Come be part of the Sponsored Ads team’s impactful journey at Chewy!

What you'll do :

• Deploy machine learning and data-science to simplify shopping experience for pet-parents, to improve reach and discovery of new products of Chewy vendors and helping build a mutually beneficial ecosystem.
• Directly influence and collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve solutions using applied science to improve selection, ranking, relevance, deal-offerings, click through prediction models, dynamic bidding, and auction algorithms for Chewy onsite and offsite advertising solutions.
• Lead new models from ideation to experimentation, and eventually to production delivery to build and  improve Chewy products offerings and advance applied science applications.
• Publish research papers in leading ML / AI / Advertising conferences solving problems for scale using innovative modelling.
• Establish high bar on model performance, establish applied-science implementation standard methodologies and mentoring junior scientists.
• Deploy solutions at Chewy scale improving overall customer engagement and value for Pet Parents.
• Formalizing proposals and communicating verbally and in writing to Chewy Senior Leadership and business customers with varying levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our research, as well as sharing insights and recommendations.

What You'll Need :

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