Senior AI/ML Engineering Lead

lululemon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 214,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health benefits

Dental benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan matching

Employee discount

Fitness classes

Parenthood top-up

Development courses

Mentorship programs

Job summary

lululemon is seeking a Senior Manager, AI/ML Engineering to lead a team of AI/ML engineers and deliver production-grade AI solutions that drive measurable business value.

In this role, you will set technical direction, establish engineering best practices across model development, MLOps, and GenAI, and collaborate with product, data science, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable, scalable delivery. This is an on-site role with a strong culture of innovation.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of applicable experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Make architectural decisions for the team's AI/ML systems spanning training, serving, and integration with downstream applications, balancing performance, scalability, and cost.
• Prioritize AI/ML investments within the team's scope, weighing platform and tooling spend, compute infrastructure, and foundation model adoption against expected business value.
• Build and maintain the team's AI/ML delivery systems - covering both the AI solution pipeline (training, fine-tuning, data preparation, algorithm orchestration) and production operations (CI/CD for ML, deployment patterns, monitoring, rollback, lifecycle management)

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across the team's AI/ML engineering work from problem framing through to production stability - sequencing workstreams that span both AI solution building (training, fine-tuning, algorithm orchestration) and deployment infrastructure (MLOps, serving, monitoring).
• Set technical direction for the AI/ML engineering capability area - translating business and applied science requirements into engineering programs for reliable delivery at scale.
• Contribute hands-on to AI solution design, model deployment, training infrastructure, and system design problems with best practices.
• Establish AI/ML engineering standards - training pipelines, data prep, model fine-tuning, and orchestration of multiple algorithm steps.
• Build and maintain production deployment foundations - CI/CD for ML, model drift alerting, rollback, and serving reliability.

Job description

lululemon is seeking a Senior Manager, AI/ML Engineering to lead a team of AI/ML engineers and deliver production-grade AI solutions that drive measurable business value.

In this role, you will set technical direction, establish engineering best practices across model development, MLOps, and GenAI, and collaborate with product, data science, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable, scalable delivery. This is an on-site role with a strong culture of innovation.