Machine Learning Research Team Leader

If you are looking for a place where you can manage a team and provide an active hands-on technical leadership, and where you can focus on shipping solutions that have a direct impact on business results then RTB House might be the right fit for you.

You Will

• Manage a team of strong ML Researchers

• Provide deep research leadership and expertise

• Act as a driver of execution and accountability within the team

• Set clear expectations around ownership, delivery, and quality

• Support team members through feedback and coaching, with a strong focus on effective execution and impact

• Maintain a high technical and operational bar, balancing experimentation with delivery

• Foster a culture of impact, healthy ambition, open mindedness, teamwork, and mutual respect.

• Participate in hiring and onboarding as the team grows

• Design and implement machine learning models (most often deep neural networks) used in production systems at scale

• Translate research ideas into concrete, testable, and deployable solutions

• Conduct and evaluate A/B tests, focusing on measurable impact rather than purely academic results

• Develop and improve approaches to key problems such as bidding in first-price auctions, with clear ownership of outcomes

• Lead research initiatives end-to-end: from problem formulation, through experimentation, to production rollout

• Drive execution by helping the team prioritize work, remove blockers, and deliver results

• Communicate clearly with product and engineering to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and impact

Desired Experience

• Strong background as a Senior ML Researcher with a proven record of shipping impactful solutions

• Experience leading teams or projects with solid track record of delivering impact

• Solid understanding of statistics and probability

• Strong programming skills and practical ML engineering mindset

• Strong orientation toward execution, decision-making, and responsibility for outcomes

• Formal people management experience is not strictly required. We value candidates who have led complex, multi-year projects involving multiple contributors and consistently delivered high-impact results and are motivated to grow into a people management role.

Selected Technologies:

• Python, Java, Scala

• PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas

• Jupyter Notebooks
  
  

Additional advantages

• Experience working on production ML systems

• Experience with recommendation systems or real-time decision systems

• Comfort operating in environments where results are measured and visible

Example Topics You May Work On

• Designing and deploying new model architectures with measurable performance gains

• Integrating a transformer-based model for downstream model training and evaluation

• Identifying and fixing training–production mismatches that affect business outcomes

• Applying transfer learning where it unblocks delivery or improves efficiency

• Developing pragmatic solutions that balance novelty with robust execution

We Offer

• A very attractive compensation

• Work with a team of enthusiasts with experience in machine learning who willingly share their knowledge and skills

• Work in the company that operates in remote-first manner

• Access to the latest technologies and the possibility of real use of them in a large-scale and highly dynamic project;

• Possibility to use knowledge and competences in practical applications - while optimizing algorithms supporting hundreds of millions of Internet users and monthly buys of billions of advertising views in the RTB model, based on extensive data sets

• The effects of your work immediately visible in the company's business results

Why This Role Is For

This role is a strong fit if you:

• Want to lead without giving up hands-on ML work

• Care more about impact than novelty alone

• Enjoy owning projects end-to-end

• Want to lead by doing and delivering, not just coordinating

• Believe that great research should translate into real-world results

Want to work on inspiring technology with passionate coworkers