Skip to content
Founding Head of Machine Learning
| Company | Lanai |
|---|
| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
|---|
| Salary | $170000 – $170000 |
|---|
| Type | Full-Time |
|---|
| Degrees | |
|---|
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
|---|
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in ML/AI and NLP (8+ years experience)
- Experience building and scaling production ML systems from 0→1: Early employee experience at successful startups OR led new product development at major tech companies
- Enterprise domain understanding
- Experience with cloud environments and production data pipelines at scale
- Deep expertise in large-scale streaming data processing and real-time classification
- Background in multi-dimensional risk scoring and pattern recognition
- Strong programming skills in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Willingness to work in Palo Alto 3x/week
Responsibilities
- Design and build critical systems that handle enterprise data flows with unprecedented accuracy and speed
- Develop multi-dimensional risk scoring models that evaluate data compromise, bias, legal, and security threats
- Create highly scalable custom classifiers that operate at sub-200ms latency with 99.8% accuracy
- Combine ML, security infrastructure, and privacy engineering challenges that directly impact how Fortune 500 companies operate
- Build small PyTorch models and on-device models through quantization and distillation of fine-tuned open source models
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
