Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems

September 8

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Launch Potato

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Media • B2C

Launch Potato is South Florida's fastest growing digital media company, founded by a group of young and ambitious individuals with a history of building successful direct-to-consumer digital businesses. Headquartered in Delray Beach, FL, Launch Potato operates with a distributed global team. The company focuses on solving complex problems with smart marketing, great engineering, data science, and fun, emphasizing its commitment to innovation and scalability.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

📱 Media

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Design, deploy, and scale ML systems that power real-time recommendations across millions of user journeys • Build and deploy ML models serving 100M+ predictions per day to personalize user experiences at scale • Enhance data processing pipelines (Spark, Beam, Dask) with efficiency and reliability improvements • Design ranking algorithms that balance relevance, diversity, and revenue • Deliver real-time personalization with latency <50ms across key product surfaces • Run statistically rigorous A/B tests to measure true business impact • Optimize for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency in production • Partner with product, engineering, and analytics to launch high-impact personalization features • Implement monitoring systems and maintain clear ownership for model reliability

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building and scaling production ML systems with measurable business impact • Experience deploying ML systems serving 100M+ predictions daily • Strong background in ranking algorithms (collaborative filtering, learning-to-rank, deep learning) • Proficiency with Python and ML frameworks (TensorFlow or PyTorch) • Skilled with SQL and modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) plus data lakes • Familiarity with distributed computing (Spark, Ray) and LLM/AI Agent frameworks • Track record of improving business KPIs via ML-powered personalization • Experience with A/B testing platforms and experiment logging best practices

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.