Senior Staff AI Engineer, Notifications AI

Responsibilities

• This is a Senior Technical Lead who will strategize, drive, and execute next generation AI solutions for our Notifications AI team, partnering closely with many other teams and providing technical/thought leadership for a group of 10-20 engineers.
• Responsible for leading a team of scientists and machine learning engineers that build and own personalization algorithms, models, and systems.
• Provide significant contributions to the team's core modeling efforts and mid/long term direction
• As a hands-on tech lead, you are expected to actively participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads in the team, and also contribute to coding and modeling efforts.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, product, data science and partner teams to design machine learning solutions to power Network Growth ecosystem and optimize member experience.
• Operate best engineering and scientific practices & processes to ensure productivity of the team and drive faster iterations via A/B experiments.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Coach the team to produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead
• 5+ years of overall industry experience in AI / Machine Learning
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of industry experience.
• 4+ years of technical leadership (Staff+) experience, including recent experience at the Senior Staff / L7 / Principal Engineer level.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or a related discipline.
• Prior experience with large scale ML data infrastructure
• Experience with developing and designing production scale recommender system products.
• Published work in academic conferences or industry circles.
• Suggested Skills:
• AI Recommendation Systems
• Transformer Models
• Technical Leadership
• You will Benefit from our Culture:
• We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

Benefits

Additional Information

Location: At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role will be based in Sunnyvale, CA. Team Overview: The Notification AI team builds large-scale, high-quality machine learning systems that deliver the right content to the right member, through the right channel, at the right time-and at the right frequency. Our mission is to maintain a healthy, relevant, and delightful notification ecosystem that helps members achieve their professional goals while ensuring every interaction provides meaningful value. We power AI-driven systems that target, rank, and make decisions across LinkedIn's notification portfolio, enabling product teams to deliver member value efficiently and responsibly. Notifications AI directly shapes the value members get from the platform, driving over 50% of total engagement on LinkedIn and helping millions of professionals reconnect with opportunities that matter. Our work spans large language models, recommendation systems, and scalable architectures that deepen LinkedIn's understanding of members-their skills, journeys, and evolving intent-so we can surface the most relevant content, jobs, and connections to help them grow their professional networks meaningfully. The team has an ambitious roadmap and partners closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to deliver scalable, leverageable AI solutions with global member impact. If you're looking to lead a highly visible, fast-moving, and exceptionally talented team at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world impact-and have fun while doing it-Notifications AI is the place for you!

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