Netflix Machine Learning Engineer jobs
ML Engineer 5 pays $466K–$750K salary-only — with just four MLE reqs open.
The Machine Learning Engineer 5 role
Netflix ML engineers build ads, personalization and AI-platform systems as senior individual contributors with high autonomy. Hiring is rolling and per team, pay is all cash, and the only early-career ML route is a single PhD internship.
No separate ML ladder — MLE is ‘Machine Learning Engineer 5’ (senior) beside ML Scientist 4–6 and AI Research titles, mostly in Data & Insights, with platform work in AI Platform and AI for Member Systems; AI titles include AI Research Engineer 6, AI Research Scientist 4–5 and Manager, Applied AI.
Netflix ML engineer salary
Base: Machine Learning Engineer 5 – Ads Measurement (Los Angeles, posted Sep 21, 2026) lists $466,000–$750,000, and the three other MLE 5 reqs list the same. Pay is salary only with no bonus, and employees choose the salary-versus-stock-option split yearly. All-in: levels.fyi Netflix ML Engineer, US, 25th–75th percentile (n=14, L5 average $575k), Oct 2026 — a small sample.
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