Role overview
- Lead a team of researchers and engineers advancing both media-based and metadata-based representations of content.
- Drive innovation in foundation model research, leveraging large language and vision-language models to enhance metadata and media understanding, and using Netflix’s unique long-form media and engagement data to create richer, more personalized representations.
Ensure production excellence across embedding pipelines – maintaining reliability, performance, and scalability.
Guide adoption of embeddings as first-class products, partnering with downstream application teams to maximize business and product impact.
What we're looking for
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8+ years of experience in ML or AI, including 3+ years leading technical teams.
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Background in multimodal learning, contrastive training, or LLM-based embedding architectures.
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Experience building ML systems used across multiple product surfaces.
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Experience with large-scale distributed training, embedding infrastructure, or evaluation frameworks.
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Familiarity with both research-oriented and production-grade ML workflows.
Netflix's culture is an integral part of our success, and we approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that bringing together different perspectives and backgrounds helps build stronger teams. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $190,000 - $920,000.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here .
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.