Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Teamwork makes the stream work.Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we’ve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you’ll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We’re a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

About the team

Roku is the No. 1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico with 70+ millions of active accounts. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. We believe Roku’s continued success relies on its investment in our machine learning/ML recommendation engine. Roku enables our users to access millions of contents including movies, episodes, news, sports, music and channels from all around the world.

About the role

We’re on a mission to build cutting-edge advertising technology that empowers businesses to run sustainable and highly-profitable campaigns. The Ad Performance team owns server technologies, data, and cloud services aimed at improving the ad experience. We’re looking for seasoned engineers with a background in machine learning to aid in this mission. Examples of problems include improving ad relevance, inferring demographics, yield optimisation, and many more. Employees in this role are expected to apply knowledge of experimental methodologies, statistics, optimisation, probability theory, and machine learning using both general purpose software and statistical languages.

What you’ll be doing

• ML infrastructure: Help build a first-class machine learning platform from the ground up which manages the entire model lifecycle - feature engineering, model training, versioning, deployment, online serving/evaluation, and monitoring prediction quality.
• Data analysis and feature engineering: Apply your expertise to identify and generate features that can be leveraged by multiple use cases and models.
• Model training with batch and real-time prediction scenarios: Use machine learning and statistical modelling techniques such as Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, Bayesian Analysis and others to develop and evaluate algorithms for improving product/system performance, quality, and accuracy.

• Production operations: Low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimisation on large production clusters.

  Collaboration with cross-functional teams: Partner with product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to deliver impactful solutions.

  Staying ahead of the curve: Continuously learn and adapt to emerging technologies and industry trends.

We’re excited if you have

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• Experience in applied machine learning on real use cases (bonus points for ad tech-related use cases). Min 5 years of total experience.
• Great coding skills and strong software development experience (we use Spark, Python, Java).
• Familiarity with real-time evaluation of models with low latency constraints.
• Familiarity with distributed ML frameworks such as Spark-MLlib, TensorFlow, etc.
• Ability to work with large scale computing frameworks, data analysis systems, and modelling environments. Examples include Spark, Hive, NoSQL stores such as Aerospike and ScyllaDB.
• Ad tech background is a plus.
• AI growth mindset / AI Literacy

Our Hybrid Work Approach

Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.

Benefits

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include st…