Launch Potato is looking to solve the business problem of enhancing personalization and optimization systems through the leadership of a Machine Learning Engineering team.
Requirements
- 7+ years in ML engineering, 2+ years leading technical teams
- Deep expertise in large-scale personalization systems
- Experience with modern ML architectures (two-tower, transformer-based, graph neural networks)
- Strong system design skills for ML infrastructure
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical decisions
- Experience managing stakeholder relationships and project delivery
- Experience in adtech, e-commerce, or content platforms
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 3-5 ML engineers building personalization systems
- Architect multi-stage ranking systems (retrieval → ranking → re-ranking)
- Define technical roadmap aligned with business objectives
- Drive improvements in model quality, system reliability, and development velocity
- Establish best practices for model development and deployment
- Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams
- Contribute hands-on to critical model development (50% coding)
Other
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience managing stakeholder relationships and project delivery
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical decisions
- We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
