About the Team:
Nykaa’s AdTech Data Science team is at the forefront of building intelligent, ML-powered advertising products including Sponsored Products, Display Ads, and Creative Personalization. We aim to serve highly relevant, personalized ads to millions of users while maximizing advertiser success through scalable, automated systems. In this Staff MLS role, you will be a hands-on technical leader—driving the development of foundational ML models and systems that fuel our ad platform. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and business teams to define and solve high-impact problems in advertising science.

What Are We Looking For?
Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related technical field from a reputable institution.

Experience:
• 7+ years of experience building production-grade ML systems, with 5+ years specifically in AdTech, performance marketing, or large-scale recommender systems.
• Proven track record of delivering impactful ML innovations as a senior individual contributor, from ideation to deployment.




• Deep expertise in one or more of the following domains:
• CTR/CVR prediction, ranking, bidding dynamics, bid/budget optimization
• Multi-objective learning, campaign automation, target ROAS modeling
• Generative AI for creative optimization, personalization, or agentic workflows

Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of:
• Learning-to-Rank
• Bandits and exploration strategies
• Representation learning / embeddings
• Auction systems and ads marketplaces
• Multi-objective optimization
• real-time inference, latency-sensitive model serving, and model monitoring in production environments.
• Fluency in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, and libraries like LightGBM, Scikit-learn.
• Expertise in large-scale data processing with PySpark, SQL etc...
• Experience with Solid command of A/B testing design, incrementality measurement, and online experimentation in

📌 Staff Machine Learning Scientist – AdTech (India)
🏢 Nykaa
📍 India