Senior Machine Learning Engineer Tech Lead

Senior Machine Learning Engineer Tech Lead (Remote)

Overview:

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer Tech Lead at Weedmaps will be a key technical leader and contributor within our Data organization, leading the technical execution for a multidisciplinary team of 35 engineers. In this role you will provide technical leadership, strategic direction, expert guidance, and tactical execution to build and deploy sophisticated AI and machine learning systems that power our marketplace and ecommerce platform. The ideal candidate is an experienced ML practitioner with strong software engineering skills and experience guiding teams to deliver endtoend production ML systems that deliver measurable business impact. In addition to setting the direction for your crossfunctional team, you will also collaborate extensively with teams and leaders across the business, including Product to understand user needs and translate them into ML solutions; Engineering to integrate ML systems into our broader ecosystem; Data and Analytics to leverage insights and coordinate on data strategies; as well as legal and finance to ensure our ML systems are compliant.

Note that this is a technical leadership role with a dottedline reporting structure, not a true people leader role.

The impact youll make:

• Lead the technical execution of a multidisciplinary team including application engineers, ML engineers, data engineers, and other specialists, including setting clear technical goals and timelines
• Own delivery quality and establish engineering and architectural standards and design patterns for ML services
• Coordinate crossteam dependencies and ensure seamless integration of ML systems
• Develop and implement frameworks for measuring ML model effectiveness, including comprehensive evaluation metrics and automated evaluation pipelines
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and resource allocation decisions
• Oversee the development of productionready Pythonbased ML models with a focus on advanced NLP, similarity metrics, and product matching and recommendations
• Provide expert guidance on architecture, tooling, and implementation of ML pipelines and workflows
• Architect and maintain scalable ML infrastructure using a mix of managed services (eg AWS SageMaker) and custom services (such as function as a service apps on Kubernetes)
• Implement best practices for model serving, versioning, and monitoring in production environments
• Optimize model deployment pipelines for reliability, performance, and costefficiency
• Design, implement, and analyze AB (or MAB) tests to evaluate ML system performance in production systems (e.g. with Optimizely or similar tools), ensuring that ML systems achieve business objectives
• Design and build APIbased microservices that integrate ML functionality into our broader engineering ecosystem, ideally creating reusable ML components that can be leveraged across multiple product lines

• What youve accomplished:

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related quantitative field
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical teams in a Tech Lead capacity, preferably in MLAI applications
  • 4+ years of experience building and deploying MLAI models in production environments
  • 6+ Years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, DataSoftware Engineering
  • Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain high engineering standards and quality
  • Expert Python skills and experience with modern LLM endpoints
  • Experience with MLOps practices for model monitoring, maintenance, and lifecycle management
  • Demonstrated expertise in machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikitlearn) as well as modern LLM systems (Anthropic, OpenAI) with a proven track record of deploying models to production
  • Proficiency in software engineering best practices, including version control, code review, testing, and documentation
  • Strong understanding of data engineering principles and experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and data quality assurance
  • History of effective collaboration with crossfunctional teams to deliver ML solutions that drive measurable business results
  • Experience communicating complex ML concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms, preferably AWS (particularly SageMaker and Bedrock)

  • Bonus points:

    • Experience using AI endpoints such as Claude or ChatGPT for embeddings and more advanced AI pipeline use cases such as hybrid ranking systems leveraging RAG with AIbased rerankers that optimize specific metrics (e.g. precision)
    • Successfully built and deployed ML systems that solved real business problems in ecommerce or marketplace environments
    • Successful deployment of ML systems in ecommerce or marketplace business environments preferred
    • Regulated industry experience nice to have

    • The base pay range for this position is $218,368.00 $234,366.00 per year

      2025 Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

      • Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision:
      • • Employee employer paid premium 100%
        • Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
        • For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
        • • Mental Health benefits:
          • • Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
            • Employee Training
            • Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
            • • Basic Life & AD&D employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
              • 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
              • Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
              • Supplemental, voluntary benefits
              • • Student Loan Repayment529 Education Savings including a company contribution
                • FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
                • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
                • Critical Illness Insurance
                • Accident Insurance
                • Short and Longterm Disability Insurance
                • Pet Insurance
                • Family planningfertility
                • Identity theft protection
                • Legal access to a network of attorneys
                • • Paid parental leave

                  • Why Work at Weedmaps?

                    • You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry
                    • You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes, including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis
                    • You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
                    • You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best
                    • You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
                    • Generous PTO and company holidays
                    • Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
                    • Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!

                    • Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion and religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Our company uses EVerify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about EVerify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.govEVerify.

                      Applicants are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable statelocal laws, unless the accommodation presents undue hardship. Please email us at peopleoperations at weedmaps.com if you would like to confidentially discuss a potential accommodation during the interview process.

                      About Weedmaps:

                      WM Technology, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade, WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change we’ve seen in the past 10 years.

                      Founded in 2008, WM Technology, is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloudbased SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an endtoend operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business’ tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

                      WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.

                      Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.

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