We are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to join our 200+ product development organization and lead our ML Foundations team. This team focuses on solving complex machine learning problems and developing proprietary models for a range of AdTech use cases across our product suite.

As part of the AI Platform organization, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers working to accelerate AI adoption and development across Smartly’s Media, Creative, and Intelligence suite. The team ensures compliance with privacy, security, and ethical guidelines.

This is an opportunity to define the vision and strategy for ML and Data Science applications, drive execution on ambitious goals, and champion AI and ML excellence throughout Smartly.

Smartly is proud to be ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Creative AdTech. This recognition reflects our commitment to transforming ad experiences through intelligent creativity, standing as the only platform honored by both Forrester and validated by PwC to be recognized for ad technology to power performance.

To get an idea of some of the work we do, see for example these blog posts:

How We Productized Bayesian Revenue Estimation with Stan

Optimizing Conversions with Predictive Budget Allocation

Here’s What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow the AI Foundations team, providing technical direction, strategic vision, and hands-on leadership.
• Drive the development of AdTech-specific ML models and foundational AI capabilities and explore novel approaches that can be applied across Smartly’s products. Optimize existing models for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to ensure AI-driven features deliver measurable business and customer impact.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and ethical AI standards in ML applications.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members through coaching, 1:1s, and career development plans.
• Remove obstacles to enable your team to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
• Partner with recruiting to help scale the team by actively sourcing and closing the best talent. 
• Partner with other leaders in the AI Platform to shape Smartly’s long-term AI strategy and architecture.

Here's What We're Looking For…

• 7+ years of experience in building services and products.
• 5+ years of experience in applying machine learning to real-life problems.
• 3+ years of experience in leading teams.
• Competent with key technologies in ML; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, SQL.  
• Able to mentor, coach, and develop data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Proven experience in delivering scalable ML systems in production.  You will need to be hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• A pragmatic mindset. We always aim to create value to our customers. We're also working on production systems and our customers' business depends on it.
• Curiosity and the drive to continuously learn through study and experimentation on the job.  
• Ability to drive both technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements when working with personal data.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics, …).
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English and ability to work 3 days/week onsite at our Berlin office

What we offer you…

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, and Google.
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our Chief Technical Officer.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!

We are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to join our 200+ product development organization and lead our ML Foundations team. This team focuses on solving complex machine learning problems and developing proprietary models for a range of AdTech use cases across our product suite.

As part of the AI Platform organization, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers working to accelerate AI adoption and development across Smartly’s Media, Creative, and Intelligence suite. The team ensures compliance with privacy, security, and ethical guidelines.

This is an opportunity to define the vision and strategy for ML and Data Science applications, drive execution on ambitious goals, and champion AI and ML excellence throughout Smartly.

Smartly is proud to be ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Creative AdTech. This recognition reflects our commitment to transforming ad experiences through intelligent creativity, standing as the only platform honored by both Forrester and validated by PwC to be recognized for ad technology to power performance.

To get an idea of some of the work we do, see for example these blog posts:

How We Productized Bayesian Revenue Estimation with Stan

Optimizing Conversions with Predictive Budget Allocation

Here’s What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow the AI Foundations team, providing technical direction, strategic vision, and hands-on leadership.
• Drive the development of AdTech-specific ML models and foundational AI capabilities and explore novel approaches that can be applied across Smartly’s products. Optimize existing models for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to ensure AI-driven features deliver measurable business and customer impact.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and ethical AI standards in ML applications.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members through coaching, 1:1s, and career development plans.
• Remove obstacles to enable your team to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
• Partner with recruiting to help scale the team by actively sourcing and closing the best talent. 
• Partner with other leaders in the AI Platform to shape Smartly’s long-term AI strategy and architecture.

Here's What We're Looking For…

• 7+ years of experience in building services and products.
• 5+ years of experience in applying machine learning to real-life problems.
• 3+ years of experience in leading teams.
• Competent with key technologies in ML; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, SQL.  
• Able to mentor, coach, and develop data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Proven experience in delivering scalable ML systems in production.  You will need to be hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• A pragmatic mindset. We always aim to create value to our customers. We're also working on production systems and our customers' business depends on it.
• Curiosity and the drive to continuously learn through study and experimentation on the job.  
• Ability to drive both technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements when working with personal data.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics, …).
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English and ability to work 3 days/week onsite at our Helsinki office

What we offer you…

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, and Google.
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our Chief Technical Officer.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!

We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI PlatformTeam at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Drive the longer term technical architecture evolution of your domain.  
• Be a role model for technical excellence in your field inside Smartly
• Coach, mentor and train our ML Engineering talent.
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 5+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 4+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Demonstrated experience managing the technical direction of a software system
• Experience in coaching and mentoring senior engineers
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

We use Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes for our microservices, TypeScript and React in the frontend of our products.

Here's What You'll Do...

• Design, build and maintain backend services that sit at the core of Smartly.io’s campaign optimization products.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Support data scientists in bringing machine learning models to production.
• Mentor your team on software development practices and propagate best practices like testing, monitoring, or clean code.
• Use your skills and experience to continuously improve our software architecture, coding practices, tools, and processes.
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. Being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly

Here's What We're Looking For...

• We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer with Strong Python skills
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with NodeJS, React, TypeScript is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) is a plus
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow) is a plus
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work 3 days / week at our office
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred

Are you passionate about being at the forefront of the ever-evolving social advertising industry? Do you take pride in driving retention and growth among valued customers by understanding their business needs and helping them succeed?

As a Customer Success Manager at Smartly, you'll take ownership of your own customers from the first week on, give consultative advice, scope and drive successful product trials and drive customer engagement. You function as the crucial link between customers, Meta, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok and our product development team. You get the seat in the cutting edge of the fast-paced online marketing industry, which allows you to learn super fast about growing and nurturing your own book of business, managing customer relationships with large advertisers, and scaling the operations of an ambitious growth company.

In this Berlin-based role, you will be part of the EMEA South & Central Customer Success team focussing on DACH.

As a Customer Success Manager at Smartly, you will...

• Manage and nurture your own customer accounts through day to day communication and online marketing expertise
• Work closely with customers to hone their online marketing strategy and quickly resolve advertiser issues including scaling budgets, campaign performance and manual work
• Take full ownership and responsibility of growing and managing your own book of business and develop vertical expertise (e.g. e-commerce, travel, classified, mobile apps, etc)
• Develop and maintain excellent knowledge and skills for Smartly.io tool and paid social advertising in general so that you're constantly able to solve customers' problems
• Build, manage and develop strong relationships with customers and partners such as Meta, Pinterest, Snapchat and TikTok
• Collaborate with customers, Smartly Customer Success Managers and product development team to maintain the quick feedback loop
  
  

We're definitely looking for you, if you...

• Possess 3+ years of paid digital advertising (Meta, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Google and programmatic).
• Have experience in a customer success or similar customer-facing function
• Are a proactive problem-solver, with a positive attitude and a strong desire to help our customers reach their goals
• Are comfortable in addressing technical challenges and collaborate with technical teams when needed
• Have a results-driven mentality, with a bias for action and collaboration
• Are able to explain complex concepts clearly and translate data into actionable insights
• Have strong spoken and written communication skills in English as well as the ability to create connections and engage confidently with a variety of audiences
• Are able to work in a hybrid capacity from our Berlin office 3 days a week (more if you like)
• Are able and willing to travel for meetings, conferences and industry events
• Previous knowledge of Smartly or similar players is a plus

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

We use Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes for our microservices, TypeScript and React in the frontend of our products.

Here's What You'll Do...

• Design, build and maintain backend services that sit at the core of Smartly.io’s campaign optimization products.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Support data scientists in bringing machine learning models to production.
• Mentor your team on software development practices and propagate best practices like testing, monitoring, or clean code.
• Use your skills and experience to continuously improve our software architecture, coding practices, tools, and processes.
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. Being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly

Here's What We're Looking For...

• We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer with Strong Python skills
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with NodeJS, React, TypeScript is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) is a plus
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow) is a plus
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work 3 days / week at our office
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid 

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid 

We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Drive the longer term technical architecture evolution of your domain.  
• Be a role model for technical excellence in your field inside Smartly
• Coach, mentor and train our ML Engineering talent.
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 5+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 4+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Demonstrated experience managing the technical direction of a software system
• Experience in coaching and mentoring senior engineers
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid