SoundCloud is seeking a Machine Learning leader to architect the next era of Musical Intelligence at SoundCloud, combining deep technical expertise with strategic vision and people leadership to drive the development of large-scale recommendation, personalization, and search systems.
Requirements
- Lead the technical strategy and execution for SoundCloud’s ML systems (e.g., recommendation, ranking, personalization), including model development, deployment, and scaling.
- Lead the exploration of advanced modeling techniques including Deep Neural Networks, LLMs, large recommender systems, multi-modal embeddings and transformer-based architectures to create unique and impactful listening experiences.
- Define and drive the overall technical direction for ML in SoundCloud including model architecture, feature engineering, training and serving infrastructure at scale, feature stores, pipeline orchestration, and model registry and versioning all aimed at accelerating our ability to bring ML-powered features to market.
- Own short- and long-term objectives, ensuring ML investments deliver measurable user and business impact.
- Lead, mentor, and grow ML Engineers and Scientists across SoundCloud.
- Be a strategic partner to the CTO in bringing an “ML Everywhere” strategy to all surfaces in the product (both Creator and Fan), and helping to lead the charge on AI-native engineering.
- Stay current with industry trends and advancements in machine learning, identifying opportunities to apply them at SoundCloud.
- Lead the leveraging of agentic workflows and AI-assisted engineering as a force multiplier to work at 10x the speed of traditional methods.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Robust 401k program
- Employee Equity Plan
- Generous professional development allowance
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
