Sr AI/ML Engineer
Zeta Global
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 4 months ago
Skill Required
EngineeringMachine Learning EngineerAI EngineerAIMachine LearningSystem DesignDesign PatternsDockerDeep LearningGenerative AIMicroservicesObservabilityStatisticsKubernetesTensorFlowPostgreSQLanalyticalCassandradesigningDynamoDBbuildingPyTorchTestNGPythondesignSparkKafka
Key highlights
- 5+ years of experience required
- Proficiency in Java, Go, or Python
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Preferred experience with AWS cloud environments
- Experience with AdTech ecosystem (DSP/SSP/RTB)
- Zeta Global is NYSE listed (ZETA)
Role overview
As a Senior AI/ML Engineer in our AdTech team, you will be a hands-on individual contributor building and deploying machine learning models and AI-driven features for our advertising platform. You will partner with engineering, product, and data science to deliver production-grade ML for campaign optimization, user personalization, and creative intelligence—operating at large scale and low latency across billions of ad events per day. You will contribute to modern ML/LLM capabilities and agentic workflows that automate and enhance campaign operations, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
- Machine Learning Delivery: Design, implement, and ship scalable ML solutions for core AdTech use cases (targeting, ranking, pacing, measurement). Own features end-to-end from experimentation to production rollout.
- ML System Design: Build and evolve the ML lifecycle—data preparation, training, evaluation, and real-time inference—ensuring models integrate cleanly with ad serving systems and meet low-latency, high-throughput requirements.
- Technical Contribution: Contribute to the AI/ML technical roadmap by evaluating tools and techniques (including deep learning, LLMs, and retrieval/feature systems). Make pragmatic trade-offs with an eye toward maintainability and operational excellence.
- AI & Agentic Applications: Develop and integrate LLM-powered features and agentic workflows that assist with campaign workflows such as audience insights, bid/budget recommendations, and creative generation—within well-defined guardrails.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, and data science partners to translate marketing objectives into ML-driven solutions, define success metrics, and deliver iterative improvements.
- Performance & Reliability: Operate ML services in a high-concurrency, latency-sensitive environment. Optimize inference paths, implement monitoring/alerting, manage model drift, and ensure safe deployment practices (A/B testing, canaries, rollbacks).
- Mentorship & Best Practices: Mentor and support other engineers through code/model reviews and knowledge sharing. Champion engineering rigor in testing, observability, documentation, and reproducible ML workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering and/or applied machine learning, with a track record of shipping ML systems to production.
- Experience designing and building high-throughput, low-latency services or data pipelines for large-scale applications.
- Working knowledge of the programmatic advertising ecosystem (DSP/SSP/RTB) is a plus; strong adjacent experience (recommendation, ranking, marketplaces) is also valued.
- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, or Python for backend services and ML tooling.
- Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow) and common modeling approaches (classification, ranking, embeddings, deep learning).
- Experience with big data and streaming frameworks (e.g., Spark, Kafka) for processing and analyzing large datasets.
- Experience deploying ML to cloud environments (preferably AWS) and operating services at scale.
- Familiarity with data stores (SQL/NoSQL) such as PostgreSQL/MySQL, Cassandra/DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
- Familiarity with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD practices.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines; comfort explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI applied to advertising (e.g., ad copy generation, creative optimization, or personalized messaging).
- Experience designing and implementing agentic workflows that support autonomous or semi-autonomous decision-making with strong safety/observability guardrails.
- Experience with model serving and optimization for real-time inference (latency-critical environments).
- Familiarity with modern data lake and table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi) for managing large-scale analytical datasets.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven design patterns in distributed systems.
- Contributions to open-source projects, publications, or speaking engagements that demonstrate thought leadership in AI/ML are a plus.
Additional details
- Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently.
- Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI.
- Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs.
- Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.
- Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
- We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/
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