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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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Innovation & Products: ML work at the Santa Monica HQ is embedded in core product surfaces—Camera/AR Lenses, ranking/personalization, and ads—and ships at large scale, with platforms like Bento and GPU/TPU acceleration enabling rapid deployment. Onsite proximity to product, design, and research shortens iteration cycles and ties models directly to shipped experiences.
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Autonomy: Engineers are expected to own the full lifecycle from data and features through training, deployment, and ongoing optimization, especially on HQ teams. This end-to-end scope provides meaningful decision latitude and clear accountability for production metrics.
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High Talent Density: Colleagues are often seen as kind, smart, and collaborative, with many stakeholders co-located at Santa Monica, including senior leaders. This concentration supports quick problem-solving and strong technical mentorship across ML, product, and AR.
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The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of Snapchat's client-side ads stack on Android, focusing on networking and performance, while ensuring code quality and leveraging AI tools for scalable services.
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Define and lead Sponsored AR product strategy across priority advertiser verticals. Partner with engineering, design, data science, sales, and marketing to build, launch, and iterate AR advertising products. Translate market and customer insights into roadmaps, business cases, and success metrics; prioritize opportunities, run experiments, and influence executives to drive adoption and revenue.
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Drive revenue by building and managing strategic brand and agency partnerships on Snapchat. Use consultative selling to develop campaign strategies, define territory approaches, create sales presentations, measure account performance, and mentor junior team members while coordinating cross-functional execution and ensuring excellent client service.
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