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Lead ML Engineer

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Lead large-scale ML projects and products from inception to production, overseeing the entire lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Builds

Enterprise security products (hCaptcha suite) serving hundreds of millions of users

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale production ML systems, ML algorithms, productionizing ML models, distributed systems, Kubernetes, containerization, microservice design, technical leadership, architectural decision-making

Preferred skills

Coding agents, evals-first development flows, scaling ML solutions for real-world challenges, defining technical strategy

Technologies

Kubernetes, containerization, microservice design

Responsibilities

Lead large-scale ML projects from inception to production, make key architectural decisions for scalability and efficiency, drive collaboration across ML and engineering teams, design and implement state-of-the-art ML pipelines, set technical standards, provide leadership and mentorship to ML engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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