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Lead ML Engineer

Launch Potato is a profitable, remote-first digital media company driving discovery and conversion across high-traffic brands. We’re seeking an experienced Lead ML Engineer to own and evolve large-scale personalization and optimization systems, lead a small ML engineering team, and balance hands-on development with technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

  • Deep experience designing and shipping large-scale personalization and ranking systems
  • Strong system design for ML infrastructure and productionization
  • Proficiency with modern ML architectures (two-tower, transformers, graph neural networks)
  • Hands-on coding and model development (Python; PyTorch/TensorFlow or equivalent)
  • Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions
  • Proven stakeholder management and project delivery skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of 3–5 ML engineers building personalization and recommendation systems
  • Architect multi-stage ranking pipelines (retrieval → ranking → re-ranking) for large-scale production
  • Define and drive the technical roadmap aligned to product and business goals
  • Improve model quality, system reliability, and development velocity through best practices and tooling
  • Establish model development, testing, and deployment standards (MLOps)
  • Partner closely with product, data science, and engineering stakeholders to deliver features
  • Contribute hands-on to critical model development and production code (approximately 50% coding)

Education

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary plus profit-sharing bonus
  • Remote-first, distributed team with flexible work
  • Career acceleration through ownership and measurable impact
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Inclusive, performance-driven culture
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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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September 11, 2025
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