Engineering Manager, Detectors (Zürich)

Lakera; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Lakera is seeking an experienced technical leader for their Detectors Group in Zürich. You'll define and execute the vision for machine learning models focused on security and threat detection. With over 10 years in the field, you'll mentor a growing team while ensuring high standards for quality and performance. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and scaling operations rapidly. Join Lakera to make an impactful contribution in the evolving AI landscape.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of experience across machine learning, applied AI, and software systems.
• Strong mentor with leadership capacity and experience managing managers.
• Comfortable at strategic and technical levels.

Aufgaben

• Own the technical vision and execution for Lakera's detector models.
• Lead and grow the Detectors Group, recruiting engineering talent.
• Drive architectural and modeling decisions to ensure quality and scalability.

Kenntnisse

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Team Leadership

Technical Vision

Mentorship

Jobbeschreibung

Lakera is building the security layer for the GenAI and agentic AI era. The Detectors Group owns the core machine learning systems that power Lakera’s defenses, delivering the fastest, broadest, and most reliable threat detection for GenAI and agentic AI applications.

What You Will Do

• Own the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for Lakera's detector and defense models.
• Lead and grow the Detectors Group (12 engineers today), recruiting top ML and software engineering talent and developing senior ICs and tech leads with the scope to build out a management layer as the organization scales.
• Partner closely with Product, Research, GTM, and other Engineering teams, acting as a key technical counterpart to Product in shaping the detection roadmap and translating customer needs into engineering priorities.
• Drive architectural and modeling decisions across production defense systems, ensuring high standards of quality, reliability, latency, and scalability.
• Establish technical and operational processes for experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and iteration.
• Design the organization for rapid growth without sacrificing execution velocity.

What Success Looks Like

• Lakera’s detection systems consistently lead the market in coverage, accuracy, and speed.
• The Detectors Group scales smoothly while maintaining high technical quality and team morale.
• Engineers are empowered, effective, and growing into larger scopes.
• Technical decisions balance deep rigor with pragmatism and customer impact.
• The organization can move fast without sacrificing correctness, safety, or reliability.

Who You Are

• A senior ML and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience across machine learning, applied AI, and software systems.
• Comfortable going deep technically, while also operating at the organizational and strategic level.
• Strong mentor who enjoys elevating people around you and building leadership capacity.
• Experienced managing managers and leading multi-layered teams.
• Humble, curious, and motivated by building the best solutions rather than defending ego or ideology.
• Energized by solving problems at the intersection of people, technology, and organization.
• Experienced in scaling teams and systems in high-growth environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience building ML systems for security, trust and safety, or adversarial domains.
• Background in deploying ML systems under strict latency, reliability, or adversarial constraints.