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Machine Learning in Santa Monica
At Snap, Machine Learning Engineers are innovators, transforming massive amounts of data into intelligent, personalized experiences for over 850 million users. From revolutionizing content and ad platforms to enhancing search, our team leverages state of the art machine learning models to drive snapchat’s mission forward: to empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn and enjoy the world together. By pioneering technology that understands and anticipates user needs, Snap’s ML team fuels moments of discovery, connection, and joy - impacting lives and advancing human progress every day.
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What People Are Saying About Snap Inc.
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High Talent Density: Feedback suggests engineers in Santa Monica work alongside smart, collaborative peers with strong technical depth and regular access to senior technical leaders. Co-location with product and AR teams appears to support quick problem-solving and cross-team learning.
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Autonomy: Role descriptions and local accounts indicate ML engineers often own the full lifecycle from experimentation to deployment. Santa Monica comments highlight feature ownership and room to propose ideas and influence direction.
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Innovation & Products: Evidence points to hands-on work in generative AI, AR, multimodal models, recommendations, and large-scale inference directly tied to core Snapchat features. This environment emphasizes getting models into production quickly with measurable product impact.
What People Are Saying About Snap Inc.
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High Talent Density: Colleagues in Santa Monica are often seen as technically strong and collaborative, with teams working closely alongside ML, product, AR, and senior technical leaders.
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Autonomy: Roles in Santa Monica commonly involve owning the full ML lifecycle from experimentation through deployment, giving engineers meaningful control over design and delivery.
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Innovation & Products: Work in the Santa Monica HQ centers on high-impact areas such as generative AI, computer vision, multimodal models, and real-time AR that feed directly into core consumer features.
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Lead Android engineering for Snapchat content experiences across Stories, Spotlight, Discover, and content interactions. Design and ship scalable features, optimize video playback and application performance, improve Android architecture, and reduce technical debt. Partner with Product, Design, ML, Backend, and Ads teams on strategy and execution. Provide technical leadership through mentorship, design reviews, cross-team alignment, and delivery of complex initiatives.
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Analyze advertiser campaigns and Snap’s ad platform performance to provide technical solutions for delivery, measurement, optimization, and revenue growth. Support advertisers, agencies, and Sales teams through data-driven insights, troubleshooting, onboarding, training, and strategy planning. Communicate technical concepts clearly, maintain response quality and operational KPIs, and use tools such as Looker or Tableau to visualize campaign performance.
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Define strategy and roadmaps for Snap’s third-party advertising and commerce integrations. Lead partner-enabled product development from concept through launch, balancing advertiser value, technical feasibility, data quality, privacy, and speed. Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Sales, Marketing Science, Partnerships, and Product Marketing to deliver measurement experiences. Build ecosystem relationships, identify industry opportunities, and drive adoption of products that help advertisers measure campaign value.
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We will leverage the strong multimodal capabilities of Gemini on Vertex AI, particularly the technology’s ability to understand and operate across different types of information like text, audio, image, video, and code, to offer more engaging and innovative features for our Snapchat community through My AI.
