Senior Manager, Machine Learning

Responsibilities

70% team management and strategy, 30% IC time
Grow a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
Partner with software engineering and ML infrastructure teams to ship robust, production-grade ML systems
Own technical roadmap and execution for the cloud ML organization, balancing near-term product delivery with long-term technical investments
Lead technical design of algorithms that improve the speed, accuracy, and reliability of Gridware’s automated hazard detection systems
Define data strategy and labeling requirements, including real-world data collection and synthetic data generation approaches
Explore and evaluate novel modeling approaches and research ideas to address existing and emerging automation challenges

Required Skills

3+ years of direct management experience
8+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning models in production environments
Experience with both deep learning and classical machine/statistical learning techniques
Strong programming skills with demonstrated proficiency in Python
Experience working within modern software stacks, including cloud platforms, containerization, and CI/CD workflows

Bonus Skills

Experience working with signal processing or sensor-derived data
Experience at a growth-stage start-up
Familiarity with human-in-the-loop or human-on-the-loop ML systems