AI/ML Engineering Leader — Strategy, Build and Impact

StockX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

StockX is seeking a senior ML leader to shape the AI/ML engineering strategy and build a scalable team that delivers high-impact ML systems. You will oversee initiatives spanning search, recommendations, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection, guiding architectural decisions and experimental rigor.

You will shape the roadmap, collaborate with Product and Data Science, and drive cross-functional alignment to balance performance, speed, and cost while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in ML engineering or applied science, with a track record of building and operating production ML systems.
• 7+ years of practical ML or data science experience, including experience in computer vision, multi-modal learning, search, or recommendation systems.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including hiring, developing talent, and leading multiple complex workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI/ML engineering strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business priorities.
• Build and develop a high-performing team of ML engineers and applied scientists, growing technical leaders and managers as the organization scales.
• Lead delivery across search, recommendations, pricing, forecasting, fraud detection, and counterfeit detection.
• Set technical direction, guide architecture and model decisions, and choose the right approach—from classical ML to generative AI.
• Drive rigorous experimentation and A/B testing to measure impact and focus resources on what works.
• Scale ML platforms and MLOps practices that help teams ship quickly, reliably, and cost-effectively.
• Own hiring, performance, resource planning, and investment tradeoffs; align senior stakeholders on priorities and results.

Skills

ML engineering

Applied science

Leadership

Hiring & people

Education

Advanced degree in CS/ML

Tools

AWS

ML platforms

Job description

StockX is seeking a senior ML leader to shape the AI/ML engineering strategy and build a scalable team that delivers high-impact ML systems. You will oversee initiatives spanning search, recommendations, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection, guiding architectural decisions and experimental rigor.

You will shape the roadmap, collaborate with Product and Data Science, and drive cross-functional alignment to balance performance, speed, and cost while delivering measurable business outcomes.