Machine Learning Engineer

About This Role

This role is for a Machine Learning Engineer to join the Personalization & Recommendations (PnR) team at FOX Corporation, focusing on evolving personalized content discovery across streaming products. You will be a hands-on contributor, designing, building, and deploying ML models for recommendations, ranking, and semantic search, ensuring their continuous evolution through learning and experimentation. The position is ideal for engineers who have built and iterated on production-grade personalization systems and thrive on deep technical challenges and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable recommendation and personalization models (ranking, re-ranking, user embeddings, semantic retrieval)
• Own the full model lifecycle: from data preparation, training, and evaluation, to versioning, deployment, and monitoring
• Develop and maintain continuous training loops and model refresh strategies for dynamic personalization
• Set up and interpret A/B experiments to optimize model performance and user engagement
• Collaborate with data engineers, MLOps teams, and product managers to ensure models integrate seamlessly into real-time and batch inference pipelines
• Leverage platforms like Databricks, MLflow, and feature stores to streamline model experimentation and reproducibility
• Apply LLMs and AI agents to improve personalization workflows and accelerate ML development pipelines
• Contribute to architecture decisions for personalization services and model serving infrastructure
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior data scientists and ML engineers, conducting code reviews, sharing best practices, and supporting their growth in areas such as model development, experimentation, and productionization

Requirements

• At least 3-7 years of experience in machine learning, applied data science, or related fields, with a strong focus on recommendation systems or personalization
• Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying ML models into production environments
• Deep understanding of ranking systems, user behavior modeling, and evaluation techniques (e.g., NDCG, AUC, MAP, CTR)
• Proficient in Python and ML libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and frameworks such as Transformers or LightGBM
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, or similar big data platforms for large-scale model training and data processing
• Familiarity with model versioning, feature stores, experiment tracking, and MLflow
• Strong grasp of A/B testing design, analysis, and interpreting results for iterative model improvements
• Comfort working in cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP

Nice to have:

• Experience with LLM-based pipelines, semantic search, or vector similarity systems (e.g., FAISS, Vespa)