We're looking for a Machine Learning Team Lead to guide and grow our ML research and engineering team. This role combines deep technical expertise in machine learning with strong leadership skills to ensure the team is focused, effective, and aligned with business priorities. You will work closely with executive stakeholders while supporting a high-performing, collaborative research team.
Your Impact- Lead and support Modulate's machine learning research and engineering team
>- Ensure the team is aligned with business priorities and product needs
>- Help grow team capability through hiring, mentoring, and skill development
>- Maintain high team morale and an effective, collaborative culture
>- Drive clarity on feasibility, prioritization, and estimation of ML work
>- Ensure Modulate continues to ship high-quality, impactful ML models
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What You Will Do- Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and executives (CTO, CEO, VP Product/Design) on ML strategy and priorities
>- Deeply understand the team's models and research to guide technical direction
>- Help prioritize research and engineering efforts based on impact and feasibility
>- Support the team in designing, training, and shipping machine learning models
>- Mentor researchers and engineers and support their technical growth
>- Participate in hiring and team expansion efforts
>- Communicate model performance and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
>- Optionally contribute directly to ML research and engineering work as an IC when needed
>- Ensure strong collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams
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What We Are Looking For- Experience conducting machine learning research and shipping models
>- Experience collaborating closely with other researchers (peer, lead, or mentor level)
>- Experience communicating research externally (papers, conferences, etc.)
>- Strong experience with Python and PyTorch
>- Ability to understand and guide complex ML systems and tradeoffs
>- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
>- Ability to align technical work with business priorities
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Nice to Have- Prior experience managing ML researchers or ML engineering teams
>- Experience working with audio models or speech systems (ASR, TTS, etc.)
>- Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
>- Experience in fast-paced startup environments
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Benefits- Competitive salary + equity
>- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
>- Flexible PTO with strong culture of taking it
>- Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
>- Hybrid work with core in-office days and flexible remote options
>- Leadership and technical learning sessions
>- Career development and continued growth support
>- Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
>- A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture
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Pay TransparencyModulate believes in transparency as a cornerstone of equity and trust. Compensation for this role is based on seniority, skills, and experience.
- Salary: $170k-210K
>- Equity: Offered
>- Other perks: HSA, FSA, 15 holidays, professional development resources
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Candidates may be located anywhere in the U.S., with preference for proximity to major tech hubs such as San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York, or Austin.
A quick note as you apply
- Please apply through the website rather than emailing [email protected]
>- For application questions ("Your fit for the role," "Your values/goals," and "Why Modulate?"), focus on relevant experience and motivations
>- Avoid including protected demographic information
>- Keep responses authentic and in your own voice
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$170,000 - $210,000 a year
