Lead ML Engineer
WHO ARE WE?
Launch Potato is a digital media company with a portfolio of brands and technologies. As The Discovery and Conversion Company, Launch Potato's mission is to be the most innovative, tech-enabled media company connecting consumers to the world's leading brands.
The company is headquartered in vibrant downtown Delray Beach, Florida, with a unique international team across over a dozen countries. Launch Potato's success comes from a diverse, energetic culture and a high-performing, entrepreneurial team.
YOUR ROLE
Lead a team of ML engineers building next-generation personalization and optimization systems. You'll balance hands-on technical work with team leadership, driving both technical excellence and business impact. This role requires someone who can architect complex systems while mentoring others and collaborating across organizations.
What You'll Do
- Lead a team of 3-5 ML engineers building personalization systems
- Architect multi-stage ranking systems (retrieval → ranking → re-ranking)
- Define technical roadmap aligned with business objectives
- Drive improvements in model quality, system reliability, and development velocity
- Establish best practices for model development and deployment
- Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams
- Contribute hands-on to critical model development (50% coding)
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years in ML engineering, 2+ years leading technical teams
- Deep expertise in large-scale personalization systems
- Experience with modern ML architectures (two-tower, transformer-based, graph neural networks)
- Strong system design skills for ML infrastructure
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical decisions
- Experience managing stakeholder relationships and project delivery
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Nice to Have
- Experience in adtech, e-commerce, or content platforms
- Published papers or significant ML contributions
- Experience with multi-objective optimization
- Knowledge of reinforcement learning for personalization
Compensation: $130,000 - $250,000
Total Compensation
Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro and varies based on Launch Potato’s Levels Framework. Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means once you are hired, future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost-of-living adjustments.
Want to make your impact in a profitable, high-growth company? Apply now!
Since day one, we've been committed to having a diverse, inclusive team and culture. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Average salary estimate
If an employer mentions a salary or salary range on their job, we display it as an "Employer Estimate". If a job has no salary data, Rise displays an estimate if available.
Lead a team of ML engineers to design and deliver large-scale personalization and ranking systems while contributing hands-on to model development and deployment for a fast-growing digital media company.
Solve real-world perception problems at Anduril by designing and shipping high-performance computer vision algorithms for deployed imaging systems.
Drive the development of Python-based systems at BforeAI to help deliver prescriptive AI solutions that detect and prevent cyber threats at scale.
Lead the technical direction and implementation of Crusoe’s managed Kubernetes platform to enable scalable, secure GPU-accelerated AI workloads across high-performance networking environments.
Lead technical teams and vendor partners to design, build and maintain NYPD software systems, focusing on databases, applications and data communications for a high-impact public safety environment.
Lambda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement high-performance distributed storage software (file, block, object) for large-scale AI clusters while working primarily from the San Francisco office.
Lead a small engineering team at Allergan Aesthetics to design and deliver scalable, secure, customer-facing web applications using TypeScript and React.
Lead the design and implementation of Crusoe’s managed Kubernetes control plane and orchestration features to enable high-performance, GPU-accelerated workloads in production.
Technical role focused on packaging, troubleshooting, monitoring, and evolving Linux-based digital menu board devices for a remote-first retail technology team.
Experienced technical leader needed to design and deliver scalable, high-availability growth systems at Snap, influencing cross-team engineering strategy and execution.
Scale is seeking a frontend-focused full-stack Forward Deployed Engineer to build AI-powered enterprise web applications and ship production features while working closely with technical customers in San Francisco or New York.
Work on Tegra system software at NVIDIA to develop drivers, bring-up frameworks, and validation tools for advanced heterogeneous SoC platforms used in AI and HPC.
Zus is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Costco data platform team to build and operate large-scale, secure bulk health-data services powering clinical and analytics use cases.
TrueLark is hiring a hands-on Java Software Engineer to build and scale robust backend systems for conversational AI products in a hybrid role.
🔮
Hi, I'm Risa! Your AI Career Copilot
you, just ask me below!
