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Netflix · 2 weeks ago

Machine Learning Engineer (L5) - Content Understanding

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries. They are seeking a talented machine learning engineer to join their Merchandising & Content Understanding pod, focusing on developing models and infrastructure for algorithms that enhance content discovery.

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Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with stakeholders in Product Discovery & Promotion to learn deeply about content metadata and merchandising and identify potentially impactful problems to solve via scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions
Develop innovative systems and models that empower decision-making for stakeholders and product features that can deliver member joy by leveraging a wide variety of metadata and production media generated by and collected from our productions throughout their end-to-end lifecycle
Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to operationalize your models so that they can be integrated seamlessly into operational workflows
Serve as a key thought partner for stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and our diverse set of team members regarding machine learning algorithms and system architectures

Qualification

Machine LearningDeep LearningArtificial IntelligenceVideo Data ProcessingTextual Data ProcessingOperationalizing ModelsCommunication SkillsProblem Solving

Required

Ph.D. or MS degree in a quantitative or computational field
4+ years of full-time work experience in one or more relevant machine-learning roles
Practical experience in supervised, unsupervised, and deep machine learning methods
Practical experience applying machine learning and Gen AI solutions to video, audio, and/or textual data sources
Practical experience operationalizing or productionizing machine learning and/or artificial intelligence solutions
Comfortable and effective in ambiguous problem spaces; ability to own and drive projects with minimal oversight and process
Exceptional written and oral communication with technical and non-technical audiences

Company

Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.

H1B Sponsorship

Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (310)
2024 (309)
2023 (191)
2022 (261)
2021 (268)
2020 (225)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$72.11B
Key Investors
Wells FargoTCVGroupe Arnault
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $67.2B
2024-08-01Post Ipo Debt· $1.8B
2018-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.67M

Leadership Team

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Gregory Peters
Co-CEO
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Ted Sarandos
Co-CEO
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