Senior ML Manager - Cloud AI for Grid Reliability

Gridware; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Parental leave

Off the Grid break

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training

Alternating day off

Job summary

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company, seeks a Senior ML Manager to lead the cloud-based modeling team and shape strategic initiatives for active grid response. You will guide the team, align with engineering and ML infrastructure, and establish best practices for high-throughput ML systems.

You will own the technical roadmap, drive production-grade ML projects, and mentor engineers while balancing short-term deliverables with long-term investments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct management experience.
• 8+ years of experience building and deploying ML models in production environments.
• Experience with both deep learning and classical machine/statistical learning techniques.
• Strong programming skills with Python.
• Experience with modern software stacks, including cloud platforms, containerization, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• 70% team management and strategy, 30% IC time.
• Grow a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Partner with software engineering and ML infrastructure teams to ship robust, production-grade ML systems.
• Own technical roadmap and execution for the cloud ML organization, balancing near-term product delivery with long-term technical investments.
• Lead technical design of algorithms that improve speed, accuracy, and reliability of automated hazard detection systems.
• Define data strategy and labeling requirements, including real-world data collection and synthetic data generation approaches.
• Explore and evaluate novel modeling approaches and research ideas to address automation challenges.

Skills

People management

ML production

Deep learning

Classical ML

Python

Cloud platforms

Containerization

CI/CD

Job description

Gridware, a San Francisco-based technology company, seeks a Senior ML Manager to lead the cloud-based modeling team and shape strategic initiatives for active grid response. You will guide the team, align with engineering and ML infrastructure, and establish best practices for high-throughput ML systems.

You will own the technical roadmap, drive production-grade ML projects, and mentor engineers while balancing short-term deliverables with long-term investments.