AppLovin

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

AppLovin · Palo Alto, CA

Posted 6 days ago

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This role has been open
6 days
AppLovin's roles stay open a median of 34 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of AppLovin's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at AppLovin
high
15 stale, 1 reposted of 37 open
Hiring momentum
47 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning at AppLovin, you will focus on enhancing user signal and recommendation technologies for their advertising platform. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include developing user signals, improving machine learning models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring new approaches into production. You will tackle large-scale machine learning challenges, optimizing systems for performance and efficiency.

Our read on this posting3.8out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
5/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 4+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
  • Experience with machine learning or deep learning in areas such as recommendation, ranking, retrieval, prediction, advertising, representation learning, or related applications
  • Experience developing and training machine learning models using large-scale datasets
  • Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model architectures, optimization, representation learning, feature engineering, and model evaluation
  • Strong programming and software engineering skills, with experience building reliable production systems

Nice to have

  • Experience developing user signals, features, or learned user representations for large-scale machine learning systems
  • Experience with large-scale recommendation or advertising systems, including candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, or prediction
  • Experience with representation learning, embeddings, feature interaction, or multi-task learning using large-scale user signals
  • Experience measuring the incremental value of user signals and understanding their downstream impact on ranking or recommendation performance
  • Experience developing and scaling deep learning architectures for recommendation, ranking, or advertising applications

What you get

  • Competitive total compensation package
  • Equity eligible
  • Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
  • 10 paid holidays per year

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of the tech stack beyond machine learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • The role involves working with large-scale, sparse, noisy, and heterogeneous user signals, which may present unique challenges
  • The application window is expected to close within 30 days, indicating a potentially competitive hiring process

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Listed by AppLovin on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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