ML Engineer

Job#: 3051595
Job Description:
ML Engineer
Location: Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Role Overview
We are seeking a skilled Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in building and optimizing recommendation systems within the consumer marketing space. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing, implementing, and scaling personalized recommendation and targeting models that drive customer engagement, conversion, and revenue growth. This role requires the ability to translate consumer behavior and marketing data into actionable, personalized experiences.
Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning models for recommendation and personalization systems, such as collaborative filtering, deep learning, and hybrid approaches, tailored to consumer marketing use cases.
• Optimize models for scalability, performance, and real-time predictions across large-scale consumer datasets.
• Collaborate with business leaders, marketing partners, and product and engineering teams to integrate models into production and campaign pipelines.
• Analyze and improve recommendation quality using metrics like precision, recall, click-through rate, conversion, and customer lifetime value.
• Leverage customer segmentation, behavioral, and first-party marketing data to enhance personalization and relevance.
• Experiment with techniques like reinforcement learning, graph neural networks, and contextual bandits to enhance recommendations and marketing outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning, with a focus on recommendation systems, ideally within consumer marketing, retail, or e-commerce.
• Proven track record of building personalization or recommendation models that have improved engagement or marketing performance.
• Proficiency in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar ML frameworks.
• Strong understanding of algorithms such as matrix factorization, neural networks, and ranking systems.
• Understanding of LTMs and agentic AI frameworks that can be customized for recommender systems.
• Experience with Databricks and AWS.
• Experience working with consumer and marketing data, including behavioral, transactional, and campaign data.

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