Senior ML Developer for the Advanced Algorithms Brigade

We are the RecSys group within Yandex Advertising, focusing on training DL models for click, conversion, and bid prediction, enriching personal data with LLM/VLM, and classical and product ML. We are currently seeking a specialist who will analyze our algorithms and adapt them for international advertising.

What tasks await you

Interaction with various parts of the advertising system and improving them for the specifics of international advertising You will adapt existing machine learning models for the specifics of different regions and languages, improving their accuracy and effectiveness in the context of international advertising. You will need to collaborate with developer and analyst teams to integrate improved algorithms into the overall system.

Solving product-related tasks You will tackle tasks related to the happiness of users, advertisers, and Yandex itself. You will conduct A/B experiments that measure the benefit of your implementations.

Domain adaptation of algorithms and finding improvements with limited data You need to work with the full ML model development cycle—from log collection and training to deployment in production.

Big Data You will work with data volumes ranging from 10 TB to 1 PB.

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

We expect you to

• Have strong proficiency in C++ and Python
• Understand the fundamental principles of ML/DL and have worked with these technologies
• Have experience with PyTorch
• Know the key principles and architectures of recommendation systems (RecSys)

Will be a plus

• Have worked in recommendation systems (RecSys)
• Have worked in large teams
• Have a deep understanding of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and DL
• Have expert-level knowledge of C++