Launch Potato is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to drive technical strategy and lead a team developing advanced personalization and optimization systems. You will be responsible for balancing hands-on technical contributions with team leadership to achieve significant business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Lead a team of 3-5 ML engineers building personalization systems
- Architect multi-stage ranking systems, including retrieval, ranking, and re-ranking
- Define the 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 of experience in ML engineering
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams
- Deep expertise in building large-scale personalization systems
- Hands-on experience with modern ML architectures like two-tower, transformer-based, and 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
- A BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical 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
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of 3-5 ML engineers.
Work Mode
This is a global role based in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
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