Senior GenAI Engineer

Taboola

Tel Aviv · 2+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 12, 2026

At a glance

Experience
2+ years experience
Workplace
Hybrid
Location
Tel Aviv

About Taboola

  • Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.
  • Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

About the role

  • As a Senior GenAI Engineer in the GenAI team in the Tel Aviv office, you'll play a key role in developing and enhancing generative AI products.
  • You will build advanced algorithmic solutions that improve content discovery, personalization, and monetization at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Be responsible for the entire algorithmic lifecycle of our user facing multilingual GenAI product at scale DeeperDive: data analytics, offline and online evaluation of new LLMs, evaluate the quality of our generative content, minimize hallucinations, evaluate guardrails, tool use and router calls, and improve retrieval combined with NER.
  • Improve personalized monetization flows and impact directly on the company’s revenue.
  • Work on a daily basis with on prem LLMs hosted in our datacenters, cooperate with external providers and embrace SOTA technologies.
  • Apply your scientific knowledge and creativity to analyze large volumes of diverse data and develop algorithmic solutions and models to solve complex problems.
  • Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internet.
  • Work on projects such as DeeperDive, LLM monetization, Personalized user questions, organic recommendations and personalized ads.

Requirements

  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
  • Strong Python, SQL and Spark skills
  • Familiarity with statistical modeling techniques
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building and evaluating GenAI workflows, including Agentic RAG, Tool calls evaluation, LLM-as-a-judge, RLHF, and LLM fine-tuning
  • 3+ years of experience in data science, analytics, and visualization
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience developing traditional machine learning algorithms, and NLP models.

Preferred qualifications

  • Strong mentoring and public-speaking skills, with a passion for writing research papers and technical documentation and sharing knowledge at conferences.
  • Experienced in Java or Scala

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits (health, etc.)
  • Fully stocked kitchen
  • Location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking)

Workplace

  • Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark
  • Java
  • Scala
  • Langfuse
  • TensorFlow
  • Kafka
  • Cassandra
  • HDFS
  • ElasticSearch
  • AirFlow
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  • BigQuery
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Taboola

Senior GenAI Engineer

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