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
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

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
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

Machine Learning Team Lead

Key skills