Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Data & Audience Platform), Hyderabad

About the Role

As a Senior MLE, you will own the design and delivery of production ML systems that directly impact audience targeting, advertising revenue, subscriber engagement, and retention across WBD s global portfolio. You will lead technical execution on key workstreams including probabilistic identity resolution, lookalike modeling, single-title affinity, and forecasting while mentoring MLE 2s and collaborating closely with Staff MLEs and product stakeholders. This is a high-ownership role for engineers with roughly 5 8 years of experience who can independently drive a project from problem framing through production deployment and monitoring.

What You ll Do

ML System Design & Ownership

- Lead end-to-end development of production ML systems: data sourcing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Own key ML products such as probabilistic identity resolution (matching unauthenticated device IDs and 1P cookies to households/persons with calibrated confidence), single-title affinity (e.g., STAT two-tower retrieval), and audience/propensity models.
- Design scalable feature pipelines on Databricks (PySpark, Delta, Workflows/DLT, Unity Catalog) and the WBD feature store, with documented feature contracts, backfill paths, and freshness SLAs.
- Architect batch and near-real-time inference pipelines integrated with Snowflake and activation systems (Mosaic, FreeWheel, GAM).

Modeling & Experimentation

- Develop and optimize models across the ML spectrum: gradient boosting (XGBoost/LightGBM), embedding/two-tower retrieval, neural ranking, probability calibration (e.g.,



isotonic regression), and probabilistic/graph-based matching.
- Design rigorous offline and online experiments; define evaluation frameworks (precision/recall, AUC-ROC, NDCG, decile lift, calibration curves) appropriate to each use case.
- Apply causal-inference techniques (propensity scoring, uplift/incrementality modeling) to measure true lift of audience targeting on engagement and retention KPIs.
- Contribute to lookalike modeling (LAL 2.0+) using 1,000+ first- and third-party features, including privacy-safe builds inside Data Clean Rooms (Snowflake DCR).

MLOps & Infrastructure

- Champion MLOps best practices: model versioning, champion/challenger promotion, automated retraining triggers, drift detection, and production monitoring with MLflow on Databricks.
- Build and maintain robust, reproducible, auditable ML pipelines on Databricks (and AWS SageMaker where appropriate, e.g., the identity-resolution track); enforce leakage prevention and training/serving consistency.
- Contribute to the team s feature-store strategy feature contracts, backfills, and freshness SLAs and implement data-quality checks, model-health dashboards, and alerting thresholds.
- Embed FinOps cost discipline (compute caps, auto-termination, job tagging) into pipeline design.





Agentic AI & Contemporary Development

- Actively use and advocate for AI-assisted development: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Q for code generation, review, and documentation.
- Leverage Databricks Genie as a governed natural-language analytics layer configuring Genie Spaces over ML feature tables and audience datasets to enable self-service exploration for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Use Snowflake Cortex (Copilot, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search) to accelerate SQL authoring, data discovery, and RAG-based internal tooling over Snowflake-resident identity and audience data.
- Prototype agentic ML workflows (e.g., with MCP-compatible tooling, LangChain/LangGraph) to automate repetitive tasks such as data validation, feature selection, and hyperparameter search; evaluate LLM-based approaches for metadata enrichment and content understanding.

Mentorship & Cross-functional Collaboration

- Mentor MLE 2s through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing; contribute to team technical standards.
- Partner with Product, Marketing, and Ad Sales to translate business requirements into ML problem formulations, and with Data Engineering on data contracts and pipeline SLAs.
- Communicate model performance, trade-offs, and business impact clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Flagship Projects You ll Work On

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