Sr. Manager, Machine Learning

About the role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television - including TV advertising - around the world, continued success relies on its investment in our machine learning capabilities. Roku offers millions of options to our users: movies, episodes, news, sports, and channels from all around the world. The Roku Content Platform is key to onboarding content into the Roku ecosystem, delighting our customers. Building a content knowledge platform that provides insights to downstream systems like Search, Recommendations, Ads, and Voice to shape customers' experiences is why we're actively looking for a Senior Machine Learning / AI Engineer, Content Platform who can drive further innovation. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television - including TV advertising - around the world, continued success relies on its investment in our machine learning capabilities. Roku offers millions of options to our users: movies, shows, news, sports, and channels from all around the world. The Roku Content Platform is key to onboarding content into the Roku ecosystem, delighting our customers. Building a content knowledge platform that provides insights to downstream systems like Search, Recommendations, Ads, and Voice to shape customers' experiences is why we're actively looking for a Senior Machine Learning / AI Engineering Manager who can drive further innovation. The person in this role will leverage their technical skills, business intuition, and analytical thinking to build best-in-class machine learning products. This includes integrating Generative AI capabilities and Vision Models to enrich content quality and user engagement. This is a role for a hardened ML practitioner and a highly skilled organizational leader. You will be the architectural and operational bridge between deep AI research and fast-paced product delivery. If you know how to build a 3-year vision for content discovery and translate it into 2-week shipping cycles, this is your team.

Responsibilities

• Vision & Strategy: Define the roadmap for ML within the Content Platform..
• Technical Leadership: Provide high-level guidance on model architecture and MLOps infrastructure to ensure models are scalable and production-ready.
• People Management: Lead and grow a high-performing team of ML Engineers. You will be responsible for career development, performance management, and maintaining a culture of rigorous experimentation.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Content Strategy to align ML initiatives with business goals.
• Delivery: Champion a culture of incremental delivery. Balance long-term R&D with the need to deliver measurable improvements to the production environment.
• We're excited if you have
• 10+ years of total experience in software/ML engineering, with at least 5 years in a dedicated people management leadership role.
• MS or BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• You possess a deep theoretical and practical understanding of Machine Learning.
• You understand the business of streaming and how ML directly impacts the bottom line.
• You can explain complex model to a non-technical executive just as easily as you can debate architecture with a seasoned engineer.
• Proven track record of deploying large-scale ML models into production environments.
• Experience with modern ML stacks (e.g., LLMs, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, and cloud-native MLOps tools).
• Our Hybrid Work Approach
• Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.

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Additional Information

Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers. From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

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