Zalo

Senior Lead AI Engineer, Zalo

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · On site · Lead

We are seeking a proactive and talented Senior Lead NLP / AI Engineer to join our AdTech team. In this role, you will be instrumental in transforming raw advertising text into actionable intelligence - extracting keywords, intent, and semantic meanings, and generating high-dimensional vector embeddings to drive our CTR/CVR prediction models and ad-triggering engines. Beyond core ad data processing, you will also play a key role in driving internal efficiency by building AI Agents and automated workflows to streamline repetitive engineering processes within the team.

What you will do

  • Ad Text Processing & Feature Extraction: Build and maintain scalable pipelines to process unstructured ad content (titles, descriptions, keywords) and extract key signals such as topics, intent, and semantic meanings;
  • Vector Embedding Generation: Convert textual data into dense vector embeddings to serve as high-quality feature inputs for downstream Machine Learning models;
  • Model Integration & Ad Targeting: Feed extracted features and embeddings into CTR (Click-Through Rate) and CVR (Conversion Rate) prediction models, as well as real-time Ad Triggering & Semantic Matching engines;
  • Internal Process Automation via AI Agents: Research, design, and deploy internal AI Agents and automated workflows to automate repetitive operational tasks and data processing routines within the team.

What you will need

  • Domain & Technical Experience: Proven experience in NLP and Feature Engineering, ideally within AdTech, Search, E-commerce, or Recommendation Systems;
  • NLP & Embedding Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with text vectorization techniques (e.g., Sentence-Transformers, Hugging Face models, BGE, OpenAI embeddings) and keyword/entity extraction;
  • Ad-Model Understanding: Clear understanding of how textual features and vector representations impact CTR/CVR predictive models and vector-based ad retrieval/matching algorithms;
  • AI Agent & Automation Skills: Practical experience or strong familiarity with AI Agent frameworks and orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, n8n, or Dify);
  • Tech Stack: Proficiency in Python, standard ML/NLP libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, SpaCy, Hugging Face), and experience working with Vector Databases (e.g., Qdrant, Pinecone, Milvus, FAISS).

Nice To Have

  • Experience optimizing GPU infrastructure, model quantization, and distillation;
  • Experience building MCP servers/tool libraries;
  • Experience with audit trail and compliance systems for AI in large enterprise environments.

Get access to all 2,448 jobs.

Free, with your email. New jobs that fit you, every Monday.

OV members also see who works at each company and can ask them for a short chat.

Apply to join

OV member? Use the email you use for OV.

Hiring? Reach Overseas Vietnamese.Post jobs