Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

• Platform Development: Design and maintain scalable ML pipelines and platforms for ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment.
• Big Data & Analytics: Build and optimize large-scale data workflows using distributed systems (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Snowflake) to support analytics and model training.
• Experimentation & Observability: Develop frameworks for experiment tracking, automated reporting, and observability to monitor model health, drift, and anomalies.
• Work with industry-standard ML efficiency tools to optimize training workloads, accelerate experiments, and monitor performance at scale.
• AI/ML Enablement: Provide reusable components, SDKs, and APIs that empower teams to leverage AI insights and ML models effectively.
• Automation: Drive CI/CD, workflow orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices for ML jobs, ensuring reliability and reproducibility.
• Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align ML infrastructure with business needs.
• Innovation: Stay ahead of emerging trends in Generative AI, ML Ops, and Big Data to introduce best practices and next-gen solutions.
• Impact & Growth Opportunities:
• Work with petabyte-scale datasets and billions of transactions, powering global adtech.
• Apply AI/ML to deal troubleshooting, competitive intelligence, benchmarking, forecasting, and actionable insights.
• Build advanced frameworks such as RAG systems, reinforcement learning strategies, and embedding platforms.
• Convert business challenges into ML products, pioneering industry-first solutions.
• Gain hands-on exposure to GPU/accelerated computing, Triton inference, and modern ML Ops frameworks.
• Advance your career with a clear growth path into applied ML engineering and research.
• Be part of a culture that values experimentation, thought leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent degree from well-known Institutes / Universities.

Additional Information

Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.

Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!.

• Four plus years of hands-on experience with petabyte-scale datasets and distributed systems.
• Data Analytics: Proficiency in SQL, Python (pandas, NumPy), and analytics/BI tools for data exploration and monitoring.
• Exposure to graph-based systems (Neo4j), RAG approaches, or embedding platforms.
• Experience building recommendation systems, personalization pipelines, or anomaly detection frameworks.
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Looker or Grafana.
• A passion for applied AI/ML and eagerness to bring research ideas into production.
• Big Data: Strong expertise with Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and data warehousing (Snowflake, SparkSQL).
• ML Ops/Infrastructure: Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow/MLflow, and experiment tracking tools.
• Programming: Skilled in Python/Scala/Java for data-intensive applications.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills and ability to debug complex data/ML pipeline issues.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and teamwork skills in cross-functional settings.

PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.

Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.