Senior Machine Learning Engineer
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Hybrid · Pune
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
About the Role
We are hiring a results-oriented Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team in Pune on a hybrid schedule. Reporting to the Director of Machine Learning, you will partner with Product and Engineering teams to both solve problems and identify new opportunities for the business. The ideal candidate will apply quantitative analysis, modeling, and data mining to help drive informed product decisions for PubMatic + get things done.
What You'll Do
- Perform deep dive analysis to understand and optimize the key product KPIs.
- Apply statistics, modeling, and machine learning to improve the efficiency of systems and relevance algorithms across our business application products.
- Conduct data analysis to make product recommendations and design A/B experiments.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business needs, formulate and complete end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.
We'd Love for You to Have
- Five plus years of hands-on experience designing Machine Learning models to solve business problems with statistical packages, such as R, MATLAB, Python (NumPy, Scikit-learn + Pandas) or MLlib.
- Experience with articulating product questions and using statistics to arrive at an answer.
- Experience with scripting in SQL - extracting large data sets and designing ETL flows.
- Work experience in an inter-disciplinary/cross-functional field.
- Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analysis, and trends, and applied knowledge of measurement, statistics, and program evaluation.
- Distinctive problem-solving skills and impeccable business judgment.
- Capable of translating analysis results into business recommendations.
Qualifications:
- Should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent degree from well-known Institutes / Universities.
Additional Information:
Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!.
PubMatic's standard text
Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
About PubMatic
PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
What this role asks for
Standard for data science / ML roles
Machine Learning · SQL
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
In most of PubMatic's ads
Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
73% of this description is written for the role. The rest is PubMatic's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Engineering
This role is one of 26 open in Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Generative AI (20 of 26), Python (19 of 26), Machine Learning (14 of 26), Java (12 of 26), Kafka (12 of 26), Snowflake (12 of 26), Spark (12 of 26)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Principal Software Engineer - Performance Analytics posted Sep 11
- Engineering Manager, Data & Analytics posted Sep 11
- Principal / Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Monetization (Ad Server) posted Sep 8
- Senior Performance Advertising Engineer posted Sep 8
- Senior Software Engineer (Golang, Linux/Unix, Cloud, Agile Development) posted Aug 27
- Principal Software Engineer - PubMatic AgenticOS (Buy Side Bidding Platform) posted Jul 29
- Senior/Software Engineer - Mobile Monetization (Data Analytics) posted Jul 28
- Staff Software Engineer - CTV (Ad Server) posted Jul 27
- Principal/Senior/Software Engineer (AI-Powered Advertising Agents - AgenticOS) posted Jul 25
- Senior Software Engineer - Java API developer posted Jul 23
- Principal / Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Monetization (Ad Server) posted Jul 14
- Senior Performance Advertising Engineer posted Jun 25
- Senior Performance Advertising Engineer posted Jun 25
- Senior Performance Advertising Engineer posted Jun 11
- Senior/Software Engineer (AI-Powered Advertising Agents) posted Jun 10
- Senior / Software Engineer - Java (Core Platform/Commerce Media) posted Apr 3
- Principal/Senior Software Engineer - Java posted Mar 30
- Principal Software Engineer - Data Analytics posted Mar 26
- Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer posted Mar 25
- Senior Security Engineer - End-User, Infrastructure & AI Security posted Mar 16
- Senior Software Engineer - C/C++, Linux/ Unix, Cloud posted Mar 10
- Senior/Software Engineer - Data Analytics posted Mar 9
- Principal Software Engineer - C/C++ Linux/Unix, Cloud posted Feb 18
- Principal Software Engineer - PubMatic AgenticOS (Buy Side Bidding Platform) posted Feb 18
- Senior Security Engineer - End-User, Infrastructure & AI Security posted Nov 20
From the team and dates on PubMatic's own job board.
Salary context
47 other open postings titled Senior Machine Learning Engineer state a salary: median USD 184,700 to USD 250,000 a year.
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