Software Engineering Lead is a hands-on technical leader and people manager for a team of Data Scientists / Applied AI Engineers focused on building, deploying, and scaling customer-facing and internal AI-powered features.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and shipping AI/ML-powered product features in production environments
- Advanced knowledge of machine learning development lifecycles
- Experience applying techniques such as predictive modeling, classification, ranking, recommendation systems, NLP, LLM-powered workflows, or other statistical/ML methods to real business problems
- Strong proficiency in Python and common data science / machine learning libraries and frameworks
- Experience partnering closely with software engineering teams to productionize models and integrate AI capabilities into scalable applications and services
- Strong knowledge of software development best practices
- Experience designing experiments, defining success metrics, and using offline and online evaluation methods to assess feature performance
- Strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, feature engineering, and working with structured and unstructured data
- Proficiency with SQL and data manipulation techniques, including performance optimization
- Experience with modern data and ML tooling, including cloud platforms, model serving, orchestration, monitoring, and MLOps practices
- Ability to guide build-vs-buy decisions and effectively leverage third-party AI platforms, foundation models, or vendor capabilities where appropriate
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into practical technical solutions
- Ability to write and review detailed technical designs, model documentation, and implementation plans for complex systems
- Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives through direct management of others
Benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
