Machine Learning Engineer Manager

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company's three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

We're looking for a Machine Learning Manager to join our Generative ML Platform team!

What you'll do:

• Drive the technical and organizational roadmap for the engineering team
• Lead and grow a team of exceptional machine learning engineers
• Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions
• Develop deep architectures and optimization techniques for cutting-edge solutions
• Create products that are used by millions of Snapchatters
• Learn new techniques and stay on the cutting edge of machine learning technology
• Design and implement machine learning and computer vision solutions to be used by millions of Snapchatters
• Introduce major innovations that can lead to new product features or new areas of business
• Partner with cross functional Snap teams to explore, prototype, and ship new features

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Up-to-date with the latest research in machine learning and computer vision
• Up-to-date with the State of the art in the GenAI field
• Knowledge of mathematics and deep learning foundations
• Knowledge of basic computer vision algorithms
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and represent the team's goals and projects with cross-functional business partners and leaders

Minimum qualifications:

• BS in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience
• 8+ years of machine learning experience
• 2+ years of experience managing a team and technical leadership
• Strong track record of leading machine learning projects
• Engineering experience with generative models (e.g. diffusion models, GANs, VAE, etc.)

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing real-time ML solutions for mobile applications
• Examples of your work such as open source projects, blog posts, Kaggle contests, top conference or journal publications, etc.
• Excitement about Snapchat and our products