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# Director, Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Snap Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $334,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Maintenance, Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/director-machine-learning-engineer-content-specs-inc-10560050

## About the Role

* Ability to partner with cross-functional executives and management across a geographically distributed organization
 * Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives.
 * Strong understanding of machine learning, deep learning approaches, and algorithms, * Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
 * 10+ years of software engineering experience post-Bachelor's; or a Master's degree in a technical field + 9+ years of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post-grad software development experience
 * 5+ years of experience leading a large team at scale and managing engineering with an eye to driving efficiency
 * Experience working with ML, AI, and ranking systems.

Preferred qualifications:

 * Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments
 * Experience with Machine Learning and Generative Recommendations
 * Experience with high-scale ranking and recommendation systems

## Description

We're looking for a Director of ML to lead our Content Machine Learning Engineering team. This role is responsible for setting multi-year ML strategy for recommendation/ranking, content understanding, production reliability, and experimentation, as well as managing and developing managers and connecting model investments to business outcomes.

What you'll do:

 * Support our teams solving interesting technical challenges, building world-class experiences in Snapchat and maintaining software and a platform used by over 450 million people every day
 * Oversee day to day operations of the Content ML teams across multiple offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and New York
 * Develop organizational-level goals and drive the technical and organizational roadmap for the engineering team
 * Collaborate with Executives, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver the highest quality for our product
 * Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions
 * Build and scale high-performing teams of software engineers, machine learning engineers, and technical leaders, while mentoring and developing engineering managers, directors, and senior independent contributors to achieve excellence and impact
 * Iterate quickly without compromising quality and raise the bar on operational excellence.