Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering, Content Moderation & Understanding

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and it's AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront. 

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering to lead the Content Moderation and Understanding team at Snap!

What you’ll do:

• Develop solutions to long-term challenges within content understanding and personalization

• Build world-class content moderation system to prevent policy violating views of content on Snapchat

• Lead the development of state of the art cross-attention machine learning models to improve understanding of user preferences across static images, videos, lenses, and ad interactions

• Drive the team’s strategy and goal setting related to project impact, system design, and ML / Engineering excellence

• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company and improves the performance of the organization

• Support the team, grow leaders, and foster positive team culture

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms

• Strong understanding of ML approaches and algorithms, and their applications in recommendation systems

• Strong people leadership skills; ability to develop top engineering talent and leaders

• Ability to lead and execute large, complex technical initiatives and solve open ambiguous problems end to end 

• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of a company

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience

• 10+ years of machine learning experience in industry

• 4+ years experience managing ML teams focusing on any of the following areas: content understanding, content moderation, personalization or sequence learning

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in computer science or related field

• Experience leading content understanding, content moderation or personalization teams