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Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems

Launch Potato is a profitable, remote-first digital media company powering discovery and conversion across brands that reach millions monthly. We are hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer focused on recommendation systems to design, deploy, and scale personalization engines that serve real-time recommendations and materially improve engagement, retention, and revenue.

Skills

  • Proven experience shipping large-scale ML systems into production
  • Expertise in ranking algorithms (collaborative filtering, learning-to-rank, deep learning)
  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (TensorFlow or PyTorch)
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with modern data warehouses and data lakes
  • Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Ray)
  • Experience with real-time serving and low-latency systems
  • Familiarity with LLM/AI agent frameworks and applying them to personalization
  • Experience designing and running A/B tests and experiment instrumentation

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy production recommendation and ranking models that serve 100M+ predictions per day
  • Develop feature engineering pipelines and end-to-end data workflows for personalization
  • Enhance data processing pipelines (Spark, Beam, Dask) for reliability and efficiency
  • Design ranking algorithms that balance relevance, diversity, and revenue
  • Deliver low-latency real-time personalization (<50ms) across product surfaces
  • Run statistically rigorous A/B tests and maintain experiment logging best practices
  • Optimize models for latency, throughput, and cost in production
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and ownership practices for model reliability
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics to launch high-impact personalization features

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant field is a plus but not required

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary ($130k–$250k) with profit-sharing bonus
  • Remote-first work environment and flexible work arrangements
  • Comprehensive benefits package (healthcare, as offered by company)
  • Career acceleration in a high-performance, outcomes-driven culture
  • Paid semi-monthly payroll and performance-based compensation increases
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
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We are The DISCOVERY and CONVERSION Company. Founded in 2014 with no external investment, Launch Potato has grown into a leading connector of advertisers to qualified customers. 3x Fortune Best Place to Work, 3x Inc. Best Place to Work & 4x Inc....

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