ML Developer for Advertising Ecom-Projects

Advertising is one of Yandex's most technologically complex products. Our task is to make it effective. We train a large number of models for different system components to ensure that ad impressions are truly relevant to the user and deliver results for the business.

In the team, we actively use the most modern approaches in recommendation systems and NLP and turn research into working product improvements.

What tasks await you

Training ML models for a wide variety of tasks You will train large NLP and multimodal models for user relevance tasks. You will need to build personalization predictors, including those based on transformers, and work with auctions and mechanism designs.

R&D You will research and test new approaches in our field: read and analyze articles, formulate hypotheses, adapt ideas for our product, and bring them to working implementations.

Product tasks You will need to identify bottlenecks and growth points in our products, propose elegant solutions, and bring them to an end-to-end result.

More about ML at Yandex — in the channel Yandex for ML

We expect that you

• Want to engage in applied ML research
• Have a good knowledge of the fundamentals of modern Deep Learning
• Have practical experience in NLP or RecSys

It will be a plus

• You follow trends in RecSys, NLP, or RL and regularly read articles