We are looking for a Principal AI/ML Scientist & Engineer to lead a growing team of Applied Scientists and AI/ML Engineers at Pipedrive. The role involves leading technical strategy for AI/ML-based solutions, building intelligence within the AI-native CRM, and partnering with the AI Platform team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of applied science or engineering experience with a broad, practical understanding of the full ML and AI lifecycle in high-scale production environments
- Proven ability to lead and scale a technical team, with experience mentoring senior talent and raising the technical bar of an organization
- Deep expertise in modern AI engineering concepts and tech stacks, with hands-on experience in agentic system orchestration, RAG architectures, and vector databases
- Proven track record of delivering customer and business value through simple and complex AI/ML-based solutions at scale
- Broad exposure to ML, Deep Learning, and AI; understanding the practical trade-offs between different models and agentic frameworks
- Excellent product sense and business awareness, with the ability to translate technical and scientific choices into tangible improvements for users
- Ability to lead through influence and technical authority, partnering with platform teams to influence strategy and raise the collective technical bar
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), distributed systems, container orchestration, data engineering (batch pipeline, feature store, Kafka)
Benefits
- Flexible hours
- Wellness perks and SWAG
- Performance-based bonuses
- 28 paid leave days
- Well-being days
- Compassionate leave
- Pawternal leave
