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Senior Machine Learning Tech Lead at Roku

Department: 224 - Search & Recommendations

Compensation

$361,300 – $510,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, California
Type
Full-time
Level
lead/mgmt
Posted

Description

Roku is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Tech Lead to drive ranking, personalization, and recommendation systems for its entertainment assistant. The role leads technical vision and roadmaps, develops large-scale ML models using deep learning, transformers, LLMs, reinforcement learning, and causal inference, builds multi-objective optimization systems, runs A/B experiments, and mentors engineers across product, UX, analytics, and engineering teams. Candidates should have 8+ years of industry experience or a PhD with 5+ years, strong expertise in search, recommendation, retrieval, and personalization, and experience with Python, Java, or Scala and distributed ML infrastructure. The role is for California only, offers an estimated annual salary of $361,300–$510,000, and includes health insurance and other benefits.

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