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Principal Scientist [Machine Learning Engineer] - Ads Platform
US - Remote
Live, first seen by us 77 days ago- Pay
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What you’ll work on
Full postingFetch is entering its AI-first era, and we're looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to design, scale, and evolve the intelligent systems that power personalization, relevance, and ranking across our platform.
Operating at the intersection of ML infrastructure, personalization, and large-scale distributed systems, you will be a key technical force shaping how Fetch's ML systems evolve.
Design and evolve ML infrastructure for personalization, search, ranking, and ad tech
Build zero-to-one real-time learning and data pipeline systems
Define architectural patterns for feature infrastructure and model serving
Improve streaming and real-time learning infrastructure for faster iteration
Coach senior engineers and rising technical leads on design quality
From the employer’s posting
Fetch is entering its AI-first era, and we're looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to design, scale, and evolve the intelligent systems that power personalization, relevance, and ranking across our platform. You will build the ML infrastructure and real-time learning systems that enable Fetch to serve more relevant, adaptive, and high-performing experiences for millions of users.
Operating at the intersection of ML infrastructure, personalization, and large-scale distributed systems, you will be a key technical force shaping how Fetch's ML systems evolve. You'll collaborate with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Engineering teams to drive clarity, define architectural standards, and ensure our ML systems become smarter, faster, and more adaptive to evolving user preferences over time.
Design and evolve the ML infrastructure supporting personalization, search, ranking, and ad tech.
Design and implement zero-to-one systems, including real-time learning and data pipelines.
Define architectural patterns for feature infrastructure, model serving, and low-latency, high-throughput decision-making at consumer scale.
Improve streaming and real-time learning infrastructure to enable faster iteration across ranking, personalization, and search systems.
Coach senior engineers and rising technical leads, elevating standards for architectural clarity, technical execution, and design quality.
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- Proven experience building and scaling ML infrastructure in support of personalization, relevance, search, or ad tech systems.
- Experience working at a consumer product company with ML models operating at scale.
- Experience mentoring and elevating other engineers.
- Ability to operate in high levels of ambiguity with minimal direction, prioritizing effectively and driving impact.
Preferred experience
- Familiarity with LLMs and their application in personalization, feature creation, and conversational search.
- Experience with streaming/real-time learning systems.
Qualification wording
Proven experience building and scaling ML infrastructure in support of personalization, relevance, search, or ad tech systems.
Experience working at a consumer product company with ML models operating at scale.
Experience mentoring and elevating other engineers.
Ability to operate in high levels of ambiguity with minimal direction, prioritizing effectively and driving impact.
Familiarity with LLMs and their application in personalization, feature creation, and conversational search.
Experience with streaming/real-time learning systems.
Posting record
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- Aug 19, 202677 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 134
- Last seen by us
- Nov 4, 2026
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Fetch is hiring
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About the role
We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.
Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.
A data scientist often works out which model to build; an ML engineer makes it run reliably in production.
US government figures for computer and information research scientists
- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $140,300
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
The government has no code for ML engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information research scientists.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1221.
Job description
Meet Fetch Engineering
At Fetch, engineering is driven by curiosity, ownership, and a bias toward action. We operate in complex problem spaces where the right answer is not always clear, and success depends on adaptability, critical thinking, and informed decision-making. Our engineers are comfortable navigating ambiguity, understanding tradeoffs, gathering context, and turning uncertainty into progress while maintaining high technical standards.
Engineers at Fetch take pride in building reliable, scalable systems that serve millions of users. You will contribute directly to the codebase, collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, and help shape best practices that elevate the quality of our work. We foster a culture of mentorship and collaboration, where engineers grow by learning from one another and holding a high bar for quality, reliability, and impact.
About the Role:
Fetch is entering its AI-first era, and we're looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to design, scale, and evolve the intelligent systems that power personalization, relevance, and ranking across our platform. You will build the ML infrastructure and real-time learning systems that enable Fetch to serve more relevant, adaptive, and high-performing experiences for millions of users.
Operating at the intersection of ML infrastructure, personalization, and large-scale distributed systems, you will be a key technical force shaping how Fetch's ML systems evolve. You'll collaborate with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Engineering teams to drive clarity, define architectural standards, and ensure our ML systems become smarter, faster, and more adaptive to evolving user preferences over time.
This is a hands-on, high-impact technical leadership role with influence across multiple engineering collectives. Your work will shape how Fetch builds and scales ML infrastructure: personalization, search, ranking, real-time learning, and feature systems at consumer scale.
Role Responsibilities
Architect for Scale and Intelligence: Design and evolve the ML infrastructure supporting personalization, search, ranking, and ad tech. Build systems that prioritize relevance, adaptability, and measurable user value.
Advance Intelligence in Production: Design and implement zero-to-one systems, including real-time learning and data pipelines. Define architectural patterns for feature infrastructure, model serving, and low-latency, high-throughput decision-making at consumer scale.
Evolve the ML Platform: Advance the core systems powering personalization and ranking, including data infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines. Pioneer new approaches that raise both model performance and system efficiency.
Lead Through Influence and Product Partnership: Drive technical design, architecture, and cross-team alignment for major ML initiatives. Partner with product and engineering teams to create dynamic systems that adapt to evolving user preferences, and translate architectural tradeoffs into measurable outcomes.
Scale Experimentation & Learning Systems: Improve streaming and real-time learning infrastructure to enable faster iteration across ranking, personalization, and search systems.
Accelerate Innovation Velocity: Use AI tools to accelerate your work, including designing features and validating ideas with ChatGPT and Claude sandboxes, leveraging AI for code generation and technical prototyping, using AI assistants for systems architecture diagramming and design validation, and exploring LLMs to enhance personalization, conversational search, and feature creation.
Mentor & Multiply Engineering Impact: Coach senior engineers and rising technical leads, elevating standards for architectural clarity, technical execution, and design quality. Help raise the bar across the team and amplify impact through reusable frameworks and technical patterns.
Model Technical Excellence: Operate effectively in high levels of ambiguity with minimal direction, prioritizing effectively and driving impact. Shape the engineering culture around thoughtful, zero-to-one system design.
Minimum Requirements
- Proven experience building and scaling ML infrastructure in support of personalization, relevance, search, or ad tech systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise in data infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines for ML systems.
- Experience working at a consumer product company with ML models operating at scale.
- Prior contributions to ranking, personalization, or ad tech systems with measurable business impact.
- Strong systems design skills, with a track record of leading architecture and communicating design tradeoffs.
- Experience mentoring and elevating other engineers.
- Success leading zero-to-one technical initiatives and delivering new infrastructure or ML systems from scratch.
- Ability to operate in high levels of ambiguity with minimal direction, prioritizing effectively and driving impact.
Preferred Requirements
- Familiarity with LLMs and their application in personalization, feature creation, and conversational search.
- Experience with streaming/real-time learning systems.
- Exposure to conversational search or large-scale information retrieval.
- Previous work bridging model development with real-time serving systems.
This role can be based in one of our US offices or remotely within the United States.
Compensation: At Fetch, we offer competitive compensation packages including base, equity, and benefits to the exceptional folks we hire. Discover our benefits and how our employees live rewarded at https://fetch.com/careers.
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