Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Platform

About the position We seek an outstanding, creative, and passionate Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join Roku's Recommendation team. In this role, you will design, build, and scale robust distributed systems that power the next generation of personalized content recommendations for millions of Roku users. You will focus on developing end-to-end machine learning platforms and infrastructure, ensuring seamless deployment, monitoring, and optimization of algorithms and operational workflows that deliver unique experiences at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable platform services: feature store, real-time inference services, vector DBs etc., that serve millions of transactions per second
• Run and monitor online AB tests via robust platform services, analyzing platform metrics and business KPIs to optimize recommendation system performance
• Collaborate closely with US-based engineering and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into modular platform components and APIs
• Enhance and evolve the ML platform ecosystem to support high developer velocity, system scalability, and adaptability to future business needs
• Contribute to onboarding, training, and mentoring new team members on emerging platform engineering best practices and technologies

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building software solutions to concrete problems
• Strong CS fundamentals. Should be able to write an algorithm with ease
• You are fluent with one of high-level programming languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin or Python
• We’d love to see that you’ve worked with big data systems (Spark, Kafka, Flink, S3, AirFlow)
• Familiar with model ML framework and tools: Ray, PyTorch, HuggingFace, AWS Sagemaker
• AI literacy and curiosity. You have either tried Gen AI in your previous work or outside of work or are curious about Gen AI and have explored it.
• MS in Computer Science or related field

Benefits

• health insurance
• equity awards
• life insurance
• disability benefits
• parental leave
• wellness benefits
• paid time off
• global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
• Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension).