Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation

📋 Description

• Lead and support managers building platform systems for personalized recommendations.
• Set the technical vision for targeting, serving, evaluation, and agent-driven systems.
• Decide which platform capabilities to build, keeping teams fast and simple.
• Guide incremental platform evolution for continuous delivery.
• Partner across product, data science, and engineering to align priorities.
• Stay close to technology, contributing to architecture decisions and production challenges.
• Encourage adoption of AI-assisted development tools.
• Hire, develop, and grow engineering leaders and contributors, building an inclusive culture.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and operating ML systems at scale in consumer products.
• Experience with recommender systems, ranking, or content delivery and ML workflows.
• Strong platform thinking to decide between shared capabilities and product-local solutions.
• Comfortable with modern AI tools and their impact on development practices.
• Led teams through change, adopting new technologies or ways of working.
• Collaborate across disciplines to align diverse priorities.
• Build inclusive teams and invest in growth.
• Navigates ambiguity and balances short- and long-term needs.

🎁 Benefits

• Health insurance
• Six months paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• 13 paid flexible holidays
• Paid sick leave