This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation in Ireland .

This leadership role sits at the core of large-scale personalization systems that define how hundreds of millions of users experience recommendations across digital surfaces. You will guide the evolution of foundational machine learning platforms that power targeting, ranking, serving, and evaluation systems at massive scale. The role blends deep technical leadership with strategic platform thinking, ensuring teams can innovate quickly while relying on stable, shared infrastructure. You will work across multiple engineering, product, and data science groups to align priorities and shape long-term architectural direction. A key focus will be enabling scalable AI-driven systems and promoting the effective adoption of modern development tools across teams. This is a high-impact position where your decisions directly influence user experience, system performance, and the future of personalization technology.

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Accountabilities:

Lead engineering managers and ML engineering teams building platform systems for large-scale personalization and recommendation use cases
Define and evolve the technical vision for core machine learning infrastructure, including targeting, serving, evaluation, and agent-based systems
Establish platform capabilities that balance shared infrastructure with product team autonomy and speed of execution
Drive incremental evolution of ML platforms, ensuring continuous delivery and avoiding disruptive system rewrites
Partner with product, data science, and engineering leadership to align priorities across multiple squads and initiatives
Contribute to architectural decisions and resolve complex technical challenges in production environments when needed
Promote and guide the adoption of AI-assisted development tools across engineering teams
Recruit, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and contributors, fostering a strong and inclusive culture

Requirements:

Extensive experience building and scaling machine learning systems in large-scale consumer-facing products
Strong background in recommendation systems, ranking systems, or content delivery platforms with full ML lifecycle understanding
Proven ability to lead platform engineering teams and define long-term technical strategy
Strong platform mindset with the ability to balance centralized infrastructure and product-level autonomy
Experience working with modern AI tools and integrating them into engineering workflows
Demonstrated leadership in driving organizational or technical transformation initiatives
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, and data science teams
Ability to navigate ambiguity and make strategic trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term scalability
Commitment to building inclusive, high-performing engineering cultures and developing talent

Benefits:

Flexible remote work within the EMEA region
Opportunity to work on large-scale machine learning systems impacting global user experiences
Strong emphasis on career growth and leadership development
Collaborative, cross-functional international environment
Exposure to cutting-edge AI and personalization technologies
Inclusive and supportive team culture focused on learning and innovation
Flexibility aligned with Central European and GMT collaboration hours

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How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Surfaces Foundation

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